Yi Chen had been restrained by the Second Calamity, and no one knew when he would be able to return according to plan. William could only pretend to remain calm, not daring to ask too much about it.
It was not only Yi Chen's side that had run into trouble.
Ever since the Great Annihilation was announced, William had not seen Ruben's true body again. Everything he had dealt with had been this incredibly lifelike substitute body before him.
Things did not seem to be proceeding according to the plan he had originally set.
"Boss! Don't we need the manager to send us over?"
"Among the Calamities, the manager isn't the only one proficient in spatial manipulation. Besides, the transfer to the lesion is somewhat different.
"To ensure that the transcendence proceeds perfectly, everything related to me will be transferred there. It's a fairly large project, and it isn't suitable for the manager to handle.
"I had people mark the planar coordinates of the lesion long ago.
"The entire company has also been actively preparing all this time.
"The transfer is currently underway."
"Underway..."
Within the medieval manor, William immediately felt a sensation of spatial displacement. It was not an individual teleportation, but the displacement of an entire space.
Looking astonished, he moved to the window in the hall. Outside was no longer the Interplanar Seam or the scenery of the City of Evil, but an extremely familiar cosmic plane.
About two astronomical units (A.U.) away, the Infected World, shaped like a pair of ice cream scoops and completely shrouded in Gray Matter, floated there,
like a cosmic parasite rooted in place, sucking up the essential energy of the current Cosmic Domain.
Even though it was covered in Gray Matter that perception could not penetrate,
Ruben, who had perfectly fused