Though I Really Want To, I Won't Go!

Despite her fear and unease, Nicole did not run away.

She believed in the Star-Gazing Marquis. If it said things had been settled, then there would be no problem.

There were three visitors from the Yao Clan.

The first was a Void Fish. Its body had not yet grown the red of maturity, and it had only two eyes.

In front of the Eight-Eyed Leader, it was like a single bean before a watermelon.

Yet the two sides were speaking as equals.

The one speaking with the Lord Yang was another visitor: the rumored Star-Shaped Monster. It was shaped like a black ball, wreathed in a layer of light, and was said to be able to shrink and enlarge itself.

A great many lines were attached to the Star-Shaped Monster, and quite a portion of those lines were connected to the Astrolabe Device, densely piercing through the device's metal outer wall.

So it really was it.

Nicole thought.

Before she saw it, she had felt nervous and afraid, but now that she had truly seen the Star-Shaped Monster who had spoken with the stranded ones, that tight feeling in her heart instead faded quite a bit.

"Nicole, this is Mr. White Knight. It is a satellite of the Yao Clan. The one behind us negotiating with the Eight-Eyed Leader is You Xiang, an Apostle of the Yao Clan's Void Fish race."

The Star-Gazing Marquis introduced them to her one by one.

"And this is Mr. King of Light, a god from the Yao Clan."

The King of Light wore a simple white robe, his gaze calm and restrained.

Although the lines on him were vast in number, they were very orderly, possessing a smooth regularity like the Astrolabe Clock as they extended all around him into the depths of the