"Teacher!" Huang Huo struggled to her feet, her voice weak but filled with joy.
Brando's face softened with warmth, and he nodded at his student.
Of everyone present, only Tulamann and Solomon recognized the newcomer. The others looked puzzled until Orates asked the question for them. "And who are you?" the Storm Queen asked, frowning at Brando.
Reaching behind his shoulder, Brando gripped the hilt of his Sacred Sword and gently drew it. A flash of light made everyone present narrow their eyes. "The Sacred Sword Odephys!" someone cried out.
Brando pointed the sword at Orates and said, "After the Sasar people did so many good deeds in Eluin, surely they didn't think no one would come to collect the debt?"
"With you?" Orates curled her lip disdainfully.
"I don't want to waste words," Brando replied. "Simply put, after today, the Sald Alliance will no longer exist."
"What an arrogant claim." Ajani frowned in the distance as well. Clearly, she was displeased by the tone of such a mortal.
"Is it?" Brando turned back, but shook his head at her. "An eye for an eye. It's only fair—"
Orates laughed in fury. "Eluin people? I've never even heard of such trash—" But her laugh abruptly caught in her throat, and fear rapidly spread across her face. Behind Brando, rectangular silver lines appeared in the air. Tens of millions of silver cubes flashed into existence and vanished in an instant, sweeping over most of Rataki.
It was a power that made everyone tremble with unease.
And in this world, only one kind of power was enough to make a Sage uneasy.
"Did you see that clearly?"
"...It can't be wrong. Th-that's..."
Solomon, Logar, Roan, and Arcas wore shocked expressions.
Existential Power—
Only Brando remained calm and unreadable, as though he had