"High-order existence..." Wine Cup hesitated, then said softly, "It was a strange life-form whose appearance could not be constructed."
Kaia looked puzzled, not quite understanding. "What do you mean, its appearance can't be constructed?"
"It means that once I try to draw what it looks like, it might somehow sense it."
"We don't know who it is either, but in our view, something with such unusual 'mystic perception' must hold an extremely high status."
"So, for now, we can only call it a high-order life-form."
Kaia was left completely bewildered, muttering under his breath, "Just constructing its appearance would let it sense you? That sounds a little like the Fate-Bond Grand Ritual..."
"The Fate-Bond Grand Ritual?" Everyone looked at Kaia in confusion.
Kaia said, "It's an extremely advanced ritual array. Anyone within the Fate-Bond Grand Ritual—if someone tries to establish contact with a person inside the array through unconventional means—the person who set up the ritual array will immediately sense it."
"I heard my teacher say that the Enforcement Team headquarters has such a ritual array."
At the time, there had been a ritual noble family in the inner city that was slaughtered to the last in a single night. Only after investigating did the enforcers discover that it had been the work of a high-ranking ritual noble skilled in curse rituals.
Not only was that high-ranking ritual noble extraordinarily adept at curses, he also possessed formidable concealment and mobility abilities. Over the years, he had committed a long string of crimes throughout Instrument World.
For some reason, he had come to Cloud Harbor City this time and massacred a family in the core district.
The case had greatly shaken all the ritual nobles in Cloud Harbor's inner city.
After all, if the man could so easily slaughter one family,