The entire process was astonishingly calm. Aside from the faint emergence of a mysterious aura, it was as though nothing had happened.
"Has it succeeded already?"
"It feels like nothing has changed?"
As everyone wondered, Nereus voluntarily pounced to Orucia's side. Without any resistance, Nereus was pulled by Orucia into the True Spirit Nest.
Unlike the others around him who had fallen under the True Spirit's influence and were dancing about wildly, Nereus merely stood calmly at Orucia's side with his eyes closed.
A few minutes later, Nereus opened his eyes.
"I have destroyed one path into the True Spirit Nest." Nereus turned around and spoke slowly.
The moment he finished, everyone's eyes lit up.
Unaffected by the temptation of the true name's power, he had destroyed a path into the True Spirit Nest. Did that mean... the true name had been contained?
Nereus nodded. "Orucia's true name has been sealed within the Nameless Scroll. For a short time, it will no longer be affected by the true name's power."
"For a short time? How long is that?" Sanders suddenly asked.
Nereus glanced at Sanders. Their gazes met in midair, as though sparks of lightning flashed between them. In the end, Nereus looked away first and said softly, "At the very least, Orucia's true name will not awaken before we seal off every path to the True Spirit Nest."
In the Bottomless Abyss, within a distant void too far away to be measured by distance.
A pair of enormous eyes slowly opened.
The instant they opened, it seemed as though all things in the world began to burn.
"Hm? Why can't I sense its true name anymore?" Ripples of thought echoed through the void. "Its true name has actually vanished into thin air. Why?"
With that doubt, the eyes