Stibium Is Infinitely Divisible

The meeting places of the "Rosy Cross" Society had always been kept secret, and not every meeting could gather everyone.

Their meeting process was highly unusual—when a high-ranking member decided to summon the others, he would first summon four people, calling them "my Cross Guardians," and inform them of the meeting time and place, as well as the topic and importance of the meeting.

Each person summoned would then summon at most four more people from the Society's roster, and those people would summon at most four more... The process continued in this manner.

In the end, some people would inevitably be informed of the address by several people at once, while others would certainly not be informed of it.

Those were the people whom the current attendees deemed untrustworthy—or at least, whom no one was willing to vouch for.

Conversely, anyone who could appear here was, at the very least, someone deemed trustworthy.

Yet Master Walter's words had clearly indicated that there had to be a traitor among them.

Walter swept his sharp gaze around the room.

There were only twelve people here, but even the lowest level among them was Fourth Level. Everyone who knew the secret of the Ouroboros Ring Ritual was here; all the remaining Fifth Level Transcenders in the "Rosy Cross" Society had gathered here.

There were four of them in total.

—Lady Malasia, Master Walter, Miss Sprengel, and Dr. Levicune.

Anywhere else, four Fifth Level Transcenders would have been enough to establish a country. Even in Stibium as it was now, they accounted for more than half of the Fifth Level powerhouses!

With the deaths of Earl Dawn, the First Red Prime Minister Pengbo Naqi, Valentine VII, and Lady Emma, the two who had been taken away after the split of the Narcissus Principality...