While everyone silently listened to the conversation between the Tree Spirit and Liana, Rhein suddenly turned to look at the distant city.
Wallace had actually been curious about that distant city as well, and followed Rhein's gaze. The moment he looked, he froze. "Something seems to be flying over here?"
Wallace's words brought everyone's conversation to a halt.
Above the distant city, a steam airship emerged. It passed over the city walls and slowly flew outward.
The airship appeared to follow a fixed route. Even as it passed overhead, it merely cast down a swath of shadow without stopping, continuing onward amid a rumbling roar.
Yet although the airship did not halt, two figures leaped down from it.
The figures plummeted from the sky at incredible speed. Just before they struck the ground, a hurricane sprang up from the flat earth and caught them. The wind gradually weakened before vanishing entirely, and the two landed smoothly before them.
The two people who had descended from the heavens were Angel and Sanders.
Everyone present found their arrival both unexpected and perfectly reasonable. Since Angel had said he had something to convey to them, there had to be some means of delivering the message. They had previously assumed the monocles were some kind of communication device, and that Angel intended to send them a message through them. But now they understood that all their guesses had been wrong. Angel had not sent them a message at all—he had truly come to stand before them in person.
"You've finally arrived." Wallace spoke first. He had far too many questions to ask, but when the moment came to ask them, he stalled, not knowing where to begin.
Angel gave everyone a salute. "A few matters delayed us for several minutes. Please forgive us."
Liana