Of course, despite saying that, Anvis made no attempt to stop the Speaker. Instead, he immediately controlled the Floating City to detach from the Demiplane.
In Anvis's original estimation, the Speaker would be injured by Landon's desperate trump card. Then, he could reap the benefits without lifting a finger, eliminating the severely wounded Speaker while claiming the inheritance he left behind.
This was not a plan Anvis had come up with on a whim. In fact, before the Speaker made his move, he had repeatedly divined the matter and confirmed that Landon possessed a trump card capable of countering the Speaker.
Once Landon unleashed that trump card and the Speaker was severely injured, Anvis could personally make his move and finish harvesting the Speaker.
But that was how fate was supposed to unfold. What Anvis had not foreseen was that the trump card Landon had been forced to reveal was somewhat too astonishing.
The Book of Yellow Robe could communicate with the true body of an Outer Deity, prompting Anvis to temporarily alter his original plan to finish the Speaker off.
Since an Outer Deity was involved, his previous prophecy was no longer accurate. Correspondingly, however, the Speaker no longer needed to be dealt with personally by him.
In truth, the moment the Speaker was forced to connect to the Continental Construct Network regardless of the consequences and use the network to disperse the pressure he was bearing, Anvis was no longer the only one preparing to cause him trouble.
First, every network user had been contaminated by forbidden knowledge. The Holy Radiance Church would never let the culprit behind a disaster involving tens of millions of people and clearly related to an Outer Existence go.
Second, since the Continental Magic Council had been able to foresee the Speaker's problem,