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"An island appeared by the sea?"
Inside the hotel, Noah, who had still been troubled over which side to go to, immediately received this startling news.
"An island?" Ena spoke up in confusion.
"How could an island suddenly appear?"
"I don't know. Mr. Amakasu just called and told me about it, asking me to report it to King." Yuri shook her head.
"If we could get a little closer, we might be able to gather more information. But Athena seems to be there, and the people from the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee don't dare get too close."
"In other words, that should be Athena's doing, right?" Lilliana said solemnly.
"Other than the Authorities of Godslayers and Heretic Gods, no other power in the world could perform a miracle like creating an island out of thin air."
"But why would Athena create an island?" Ena did not quite understand.
"Is there any point to doing that?"
"Perhaps that is the battlefield Athena mentioned?" Erica voiced her thoughts.
"To face an opponent she acknowledges, to duel the man bound to her by fate, Athena prepared a stage. It is a battlefield she created with the resolve to perform the final brilliance of her life, for both King and Athena."
"Still, since Athena went so far as to create an island specifically for this, that island probably isn't an ordinary one, is it?" Alice pondered