"It seems we still underestimated the Circle of Truth's foundation. They must have obtained something extraordinarily important in that Floating City earlier."
An awkward silence lingered for a moment. At last, Crystal Door Bayer of the Gloria Empire spoke in a low voice, breaking the stillness hanging over the battlefield.
Earlier, relying on his special crystallized body's immunity to most negative conditions, he had tried to withstand Sleepy Snow briefly and force his way through the Speaker's Defense Magic Array.
As a result, aside from Archbishop Mark, who had cast Divine Descent, he was the only Ninth Rank Limit who had been brought down by Sleepy Snow.
Watching the other Ninth Ranks around him gradually awaken, Bayer spoke with absolute certainty.
"Do you remember that prophecy? The fallen Sky City concealed the secret to surpassing the Ninth Rank. And now, it seems that the Circle of Truth has most likely acquired that secret in secret.
Otherwise, there was no way they could have accomplished all this!"
"Lord Bayer's words make sense. After what happened, we must be even more cautious in our attitude toward the Circle of Truth."
Hearing Bayer's words, another Ninth Rank whose body had taken on a semi-transparent, almost elemental form nodded solemnly.
He was a veteran Ninth Rank of the Federation Parliament, a senior member of the Door in the Pupil, and one of the "human batteries" in the Speaker's previous array.
Now that someone had stepped forward to give both sides a way out, he naturally took the opportunity to shift the subject.
Hearing the two of them, the many other Ninth Ranks also fell into thought.
Although they knew that Crystal Door had deliberately brought this up partly to ease the relationship between the two sides, the Circle of Truth's threat had undeniably risen