Under Divine Authority

"Then what? Had you heard of any other invaders?"

"No." Amamiya Haruki shook his head. "I'd only heard rumors that invaders had appeared, but I'd never seen any."

"How many were there?"

"From what I heard, around two."

"How far apart did they appear?"

"Half a year? Seven or eight months? I'm not sure either."

Lin Qiye fell into deep thought.

Cao Yuan had become the first invader around two years ago. After that, another invader appeared every half year or seven or eight months... If these invaders were all members of the Nightfall Squad...

Did that mean at least two years had passed since they had been scattered by the white-haired King Mask?

But why were the times each of them arrived so far apart? Where had the others been during the missing time in between?

The more Lin Qiye thought about it, the more baffling it seemed.

"Where did the first invader you saw go afterward?" Lin Qiye continued asking.

"I don't know. I went into seclusion for a while after that, and I never saw him again."

Lin Qiye sighed helplessly.

The trail to Cao Yuan ended there completely. Still, at least he now knew that the other squad members had arrived in this country, perhaps even much earlier than he had... He wondered where they were now.

They did not understand the language, they could not use their Forbidden Ruins, and surviving in this unfamiliar country while avoiding pursuit from Oracle Envoys and the police would not be easy.

"You're a native here. Why would you side with invaders? Shouldn't you be enemies?" Lin Qiye voiced the doubt in his heart.

Amamiya Haruki calmly met Lin Qiye's gaze. After a long silence, he slowly spoke.

"To me, there is only one enemy."

"Who?"

Amamiya Haruki raised