"Alva, thank you for bringing me this news."
"Velin, you would have found out about this sooner or later. Telling you now merely moved that time forward." Alva shook his head and smiled.
Wiping the stain from the corner of his mouth, Velin turned to look at the vast sea of forest. "This Demiplane is the one the Church had you bring me, isn't it?"
"Yes."
Alva raised his hand, and a thirty-two-faced crystal appeared in his palm, radiating seven-colored light.
"This item was initially delivered to Gaddes, the bishop of the Church of Life in Cadro Province. But since you never came to claim it, that fellow developed some crooked thoughts."
"A certain Legend found him and wanted to exchange the Demiplane in his possession for the one the Church had awarded you."
"However, Archbishop Yarbo had left a safeguard within the Heart of the Demiplane. Once it detected an aura other than yours, it would trigger a hidden mechanism and re-anchor the contractor to the previous one."
Velin recalled the section concerning the Church of Life in Kadlo Province in the report Belder had submitted and seemed to understand something.
The bishop of the Church of Life in Kadlo Province had only been replaced fifteen years ago. Less than ten years later, another bishop named Hisarion had taken the position. So that was where the problem lay.
"Velin, what do you think of this Demiplane?"
"The natural aura is very strong. Beyond that, I'll have to rely on you, Your Excellency the High Priest, to explain it to me."
"It would be my honor."
Alva lightly exerted force and sent the Heart of the Demiplane before Velin without the slightest hesitation.
To him, such a treasure was not worth mentioning compared with friendship.
Back then, when Krell suffered