"Was your task to stop the Abyss Angel?"
Iver suddenly understood.
To possess the power to stop the Abyss Angel's descent—there had to be a price for power of that magnitude.
Even the good lords who had already reached the Sixth Level had prepared themselves for death... Otherwise, there was no way there could be so few good lords here. Those willing to participate in the campaign against the Abyss Angel might be greedy, absurd, and cruel, but they certainly did not lack the determination and courage to oppose a god.
And under these circumstances...
A Dream Wandering Monk of the Fifth Level had stepped forward, claiming that he could help solve this problem.
"Yes."
At this, Plotinus smiled.
It was not quite a bitter smile, but neither could it be called happy. Like a cup of fine tea, light yet lingering with flavor.
"According to the Akashic Records," Plotinus revealed highly classified knowledge and information without the slightest hesitation, "the Abyss Angel's essence was formed from the remnants of the Reincarnation Angel's body. Its nature is quite similar to that of the Amber Angel... In other words, although it appears to be a sea monster, it is actually a type of undead.
"Since it is undead, it shares the common weakness of all undead—it fears purification by the power of the sun."
—The Akashic Records.
That was the mental repository of knowledge shared by the Dream Wandering Monk and those Dream Walker apprentices without the "professor" title.
In other words, it was a fragment of knowledge that a Dream Wandering Monk had once picked up from the Dream Realm.
Normally, Dream Wandering Monks did not like sharing their knowledge with others.
For one thing, their knowledge had not come easily. Recording and preserving such precious, lost knowledge often required