Dark clouds churned outside, and rolling thunder rumbled low in the distance.
With a flash of lightning, the Grand Guardian, wrapped in electric light, charged over on his griffin.
He looked toward Grand Adjudicator Shafiya, who was standing outside the house, and asked in a low voice, "Lady Shafiya... am I late?"
"A little."
Shafiya yawned, clearly uninterested. "But it's not a problem. Just guard the outside. There's no room left inside."
Three Fifth Level Transcendents with the advantage of home ground were surrounding a Fifth Level Transcendent who was already close to dying of old age and wasn't fighting on his own turf. In her view, there was no way anything could go wrong.
The only reason she had made a special trip this time was because Meg lacked high-speed movement abilities.
Both the Grand Guardian and Master Yanis had ways to arrive instantly. Meg was tremendously powerful, but like the Grand Justice, she had no mystical technique that could bring her quickly to the battlefield.
Compared to the Grand Justice, Meg, Avalon's strongest individual, could not even fly. When the battlefield had been under a ceasefire for a day, Meg had relied on Shafiya's assistance.
Shafiya simply disliked showing off. She had the awareness expected of a support specialist: never let the enemy know you were a support specialist.
She had no intention of acting this time either. She only planned to move her fingers slightly, send Meg over, and then stand outside and watch.
As long as Bone Carver did not try to flee or do anything major, she would not act. Otherwise...
Just as she thought this, she keenly sensed the increasingly violent fluctuations in Path Power.
"...You really do love causing me trouble."
Shafiya, who was completely unwilling to lift a finger, looked at the