Although Brando could not guess the answer, he at least understood one thing: sooner or later, the answer would reveal itself to him.
Only after understanding this principle could he calmly wait for Her Majesty the Queen to make her move. As it turned out, however, she did not make him wait long.
And that moment seemed to be now.
For a moment, silence filled the Hall of Eternal Death. The acolytes' chanting seemed to grow louder. For an instant, it was as if a voice had answered from the void. It rumbled like rolling thunder, crashing toward them like a bolt from the blue.
The hall began to roar. At first, Brando thought it was an illusion, but then the seventeen pillars began to tremble. Some believers lost their footing and fell to the ground. He looked up and found dust sifting down from the dome of the hall.
Yet under such circumstances, no one screamed and fled outside. The acolytes merely made their chanting sharper, as if trying to suppress the thunderous sound.
The shaking lasted only a few seconds before subsiding once more.
"An earthquake?"
Brando was stunned for a moment. He looked toward Her Majesty the Queen and Arch-Priest Philip not far away, but neither showed the slightest reaction, as though everything that had just happened had been an illusion.
He furrowed his brows.
The Queen of Madara watched the expression on Brando's face. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Do you still remember what I said when I gave you the Mercury Staff on the battlefield at Finhotos?"
The words startled Brando. In an instant, he cast the strange phenomenon from his mind and hurriedly looked toward Philip. Farther away in the hall, several Undead Lords were whispering among themselves, with two high-ranking priests