Unfortunately, this plan was vetoed by Landon—or rather, Dark Crow.
He brought everyone a special piece of news: this Miniature Secret Realm actually existed by relying on the power of Thunder.
The Thunder in the sky struck down upon the mountain rocks, seemingly consuming a great deal of Mana. But in reality, all that Mana circulated entirely within the secret realm, and its total amount had never decreased.
For millions of years, this place had maintained a cycle with almost no loss.
But now, everyone's use of Thunder's power to resist the external divine power had severely disrupted that balance.
Even stopping now was too late. Once the scales had been tipped, they would only continue tilting toward one side. Once the Thunder energy here was completely exhausted, the secret realm itself would collapse as well.
The Priest outside was equally aware of this.
After learning this news, everyone no longer held out hope that the Priest would enter the secret realm.
This had likely been the other party's plan from the very beginning: use divine power to wear it down until the Core Secret Realm collapsed, then have the remnants of that collapse completely captured by the Glory Secret Realm.
According to intelligence from outside, the Glory Secret Realm's overall area had now shrunk until it encompassed only this city.
In other words, once the Core Secret Realm completely collapsed, the target the Priest wanted would inevitably respawn somewhere within this city.
Although the Space Turbulence caused by the secret realm's collapse would crush the vast majority of objects inside it,
the so-called "Key of Revelation" sought by the Priest—the Silver Obelisk within Anvis's Sea of Spirit—was outside the scope of that vast majority.
Having figured out the Priest's most likely plan, Anvis immediately began considering countermeasures.
He was