"Bat Master, Spade 9, injured?" Ronan asked in return.
Though he was not among the Peak Sixteen, he was still part of the "balanced and powerful" Spade sequence, arguably the strongest on the South Asian Subcontinent. For years, he had held his own against Shakaer and Master Demu single-handedly.
Moreover, Xi City, where he was based, operated under a union of government and religion. Bat Master was its transcendent religious leader as well as the supreme ruler of all Xi City, with an exceptionally solid foundation of power. Even if Xi City's aberrations had spiraled out of control, it should not have come to the point where he was wounded in battle.
Most importantly, although Ronan's recent attention had mainly been on "Outer Earth," the "Magneto-Optical Mica version of the Soul Cape" had always remained on Zhou Fu's side. Did they think the Earth Extraordinary Species Real-Time Location Map, Global High-Energy Zone Distribution and Flow Diagram, Real-Time Dynamic Analysis of the Abyss Zones, and the like, all readily available at any time, were just decorations?
Whatever the Outer Earth Reclamation Corps was doing, Ronan only did it more comprehensively in Inner Earth.
He could say for certain that no conflicts involving Extraordinary Species-level power had occurred within Inner Earth over the past month. The last obvious disturbance had been the upheaval in the Abyss Zones caused by the solidification of Great Comprehension while he was negotiating with that "Drunkard" in Earth Local Time-Space.
By the same token, although Wen Huilan said a humanoid Extraordinary Aberrant Species might have appeared, Ronan remained skeptical. Instinctively, he felt Bat Master could still keep the situation under control. That was because his sensory network had received no similar feedback—while several Extraordinary Species around the world had recently been coming and going through the Deep