From Baja's initial account, everyone now had a general understanding of the Ancient God. As for whether they could trust him, there was no need to worry about that. With things having reached their current state, internal conflict was already only one step away from breaking the group apart.
"Are you saying that the Ancient God used the power of the world to form a kind of protection? That protection has a very fragile point, and all we need to do is have someone specific shatter it?"
After understanding the situation, Viper interlaced his fingers, his eyes narrowing behind his glasses.
"Someone favored by the world... I think I've encountered someone like that before. She often survived certain death, living through it by some miracle. The fact that she awakened and became a hunter in the first place was itself a miracle. She was like... the child of this world, someone favored by fate."
Viper's comprehension was astonishingly strong. Baja couldn't directly mention the Child of the World, but from this vague description, Viper had nearly said those four words outright. This made Baja suspect that the man might actually be a Contractor in disguise.
"As for destroying the Dark Prison Gate, Byakuya and Tower Balder, you two had better not act. You're our guarantee of reaching the depths of the Dark Prison. Library, is there a relatively simple way to destroy the Dark Prison Gate?"
Ge tapped the ash from his cigarette and turned his gaze toward Library Commons.
"There is, but many hunters will die."
"How many, exactly?"
Ge was somewhat agitated. The thing he hated hearing most was that hunters would die, yet he heard it all the time.
"Three hundred to over a thousand."
Library Commons took a small bottle from his robes, brought it to