"West Land has deployed K's Order Knights."
From the dim shadows, a figure pushed open the door. He opened the tablet computer in his hand and projected the video on it onto the office's large screen. "This is a video sent by our people."
A blurry image appeared on the large screen, along with a bright red hang-up button. It seemed to be a screen recording of some video call.
The screen showed a somewhat dim setting that appeared to be a basement.
The person holding the camera was clearly not a professional and had no professional equipment. The entire image shook violently.
Still, it was just possible to make out a crowd filling the hall.
These people were packed together in a huge circle, and within that circle was a partially visible, crimson and intricate pattern.
The people surrounding the pattern lowered their heads, seemingly chanting some kind of babbling words.
The person holding the phone seemed to have no high status. He was squeezed toward the back of the crowd and could not see what the pattern looked like.
He looked left and right while holding the phone. Seeing that everyone around him had their heads lowered in chant, he raised the phone and aimed the camera at the pattern surrounded at the center.
As the camera passed over the balding head of the man in front of him, a crimson ritual array, like one outlined with scattered stars, appeared in everyone's view.
The colors of that ritual array were so bewitching, as though it had been painted in pure blood.
Apparently wanting the person on the other end of the video call to see the ritual array clearly, the person holding the phone quickly swept the camera from side to side.
"Ah!!!"
At that moment, directly in