The Tree Nest on the Mental Layer collapsed, and the participants who had been passively drawn into it completely returned to reality.
Natural nightfall descended again, like a thick woolen blanket, concealing everything beyond sight and granting a self-deceptive sense of peace.
The Pope, who had dominated the situation, had left, yet silence remained on the Observation Deck. Beiye Hayato and Bai Xinyan each had their own thoughts, until a flood of signals connected with their communication devices, filling the space with ringing and vibrations.
Beiye Hayato coughed twice more and raised his wrist. Row upon row of communication requests from the Yuchuan Family and its surrounding social circle filled the display. Yet for nearly half an hour before this, the first-class cabin had been an information island, with virtually no information coming in or out. Other sections of the airship, meanwhile, had remained in contact with the outside world.
So this had not been a signal blackout, yet it was a hundred times more terrifying than one. It stemmed from a certain Tacit Understanding, and it was constrained by a quiet, unspoken authority.
Its source was naturally the Amaterasu Order.
No fact could have been more obvious: the Amaterasu Order was the master of Ban City, the unquestionable Dominator standing above traditional political and military forces such as the Yuchuan Family.
Tracing its origins, it had only existed for twenty or thirty years. At Beiye Hayato's age, he had happened to witness the Amaterasu Order's entire rise to power.
That was the capability and influence of an Extraordinary Species.
If so, things on the other side should be happening soon as well.
Beiye Hayato suddenly shuddered.
After stirring up such a nearly uncontainable mess, the Pope had simply patted himself off and left. True God probably would not remain