Fiona's reappearance caught Marquis Vent by surprise.
In fact, ever since the earlier attack on Pamir Academy, Fiona had remained missing from the outside world. The Olyvendi Family, Alfred's family, and the Empire's other major powers had all been "tirelessly" searching for her.
Yet neither the two great families nor the other factions had gained anything.
Her last known trail led to a long-destroyed underground secret facility. It seemed that a Rank Nine battle had once erupted there, and every trace had been erased by its aftermath.
As for the High-rank Prophets' divinations of her final whereabouts, they either yielded no result at all or directly pointed to the Olyvendi Family's Moonrise Fortress and secret realm.
Clearly, someone had used some method to obscure fate and interfere with the divinations of the many prophets.
Now that he saw Fiona appear in the Dream World, Marquis Vent suddenly understood the "truth" of the matter.
So that was it. No wonder no one could find her—she had fallen into the Deep Dream World! Trying to find someone without any trace to follow in the vast sea of deep dreams would be a miracle.
The reason those prophets could not divine her whereabouts was even easier to explain. The Deep Dream World was a place that even Rank Nines had to explore with utmost caution. Concealing oneself from the spells of those Eighth Rank Prophets was effortless.
If they accidentally divined some bizarre existence, even the prophets themselves could be in danger! Once he understood the whole chain of events, overwhelming delight followed.
Fiona Olyvendi, suspected to be the Star from the prophecy! The person the two great families had been seeking at any cost! According to his secret intelligence, even the Imperial Royal Family had secretly dispatched more than one Rank Nine