Completely disregarding her verbal agreement with Nast, Angel quickly told Klein everything that had happened over the past two days.
"No wonder I thought I saw you when I went to pick up Miss Magician..."
Klein muttered, then quickly changed the subject when he noticed her rather strange look.
"Are you certain what appeared tonight was the Ghost Empire, rather than some other Spirit World Creature or Mystical Item?"
"Fairly certain. It wasn't in the Mirror World, yet I could still sense it drawing me closer. That means it contained at least a Sequence 2 Beyonder characteristic of the Demoness Pathway... And as a Madness Sorcerer, Nast was very confident in his guess. I think he had a similar ability to sense Beyonder characteristics of his own pathway."
Angel replied.
"But if finding the Ghost Empire is that simple, why has no one boarded that ghost ship and obtained its treasures in the thousand-plus years since the Trensoest Empire fell? Gathering demigods from all three pathways may be difficult, but it shouldn't be impossible."
As Angel had expected, Klein raised much the same question she had when she first learned of this.
"Meeting the conditions for opening the Ghost Empire looks simple, but it's actually very difficult... The pathways of order and distortion already allow switching between them, which naturally creates opposition. It's hard to bring the two together. And since the Fourth Epoch, the Demoness Pathway has been controlled by the Witch Family. They may have secretly cooperated with certain empires, but those definitely didn't include the Loen or Feynapotter royal families, which controlled the Arbiter Pathway—not until the last few years..."
Angel patiently explained.
"And gathering those three keys alone is useless. You also have to calculate the Ghost Empire's route, along with the time and place where