Especially that Fire Spirit named Xilos...
Hilat could faintly sense the battle on the perimeter.
A newly advanced Authority Holder, relying on the Flame of Continued Combustion he had only recently fused with, was desperately holding back another supreme being.
That resolve stirred even Hilat slightly, but what she felt more was agitation.
She was supposed to be the one standing at the front, yet now she had to let an Authority Holder who had only just stepped Beyond the World buy her time in an almost suicidal way.
The more she thought about it, the more intense her irritation toward the two people outside the Star Array became.
"That lord..."
That legendary figure surfaced again in Hilat's thoughts, that human Authority Holder who had once done her a favor and made her owe him a debt.
"With his strength and insight, since he thinks so highly of Shen Yi, even leaving a power mark on him, why is he saying nothing about the situation right now?"
"Logically speaking, there's no way he failed to notice the problem with Winnie, or Mia's descent..."
Hilat was utterly puzzled.
That lord's way of doing things had always been hard to fathom, but Hilat vaguely felt that perhaps this was not simple disregard, but some deeper consideration—or... some kind of restriction.
Those slightly chaotic thoughts did not affect the movements of her hands.
On the contrary, perhaps because of the immense pressure from outside, or perhaps because of the anxiety and doubts in her heart, Hilat's control over Soul Rule instead reached a level of subtlety she had never achieved before.
The gray-white halo enveloping Winnie interwove even more tightly and harmoniously with the surrounding rainbow dreamlike light. Every thread of rule power flowed with ultimate precision, and under this meticulous nourishment and