The two stood in the corridor, remaining silent for a long time.
Brando suddenly spoke. "Lord Feng Hou, I have one last question."
"It concerns the secret on The Final Battle's battlefield, doesn't it?" Lord Feng Hou seemed to have anticipated the question.
"Yes. I want to know what Silver Queen actually saw in that sanctuary, and why there was a Somir Crystal there. According to what you said, since Odin had you keep his secret, why would he leave even the slightest bit of information there? I think there must be a reasonable answer behind all this."
Lord Feng Hou fell silent for a moment.
"I think it may have been an accident, but perhaps it wasn't. That human girl may have seen that node there, and through it, seen things beyond our world."
"A node?"
"That is the greatest secret hidden on The Final Battle's battlefield. Why did the battlefield of The Final Battle wander unpredictably throughout the entire Alqash region? In truth, that was our doing. Odin's seal over the entire world had its node located right at the center of The Final Battle's battlefield—in that sanctuary... I strongly suspect that someone deliberately let that human girl see what lay behind the seal. That person might have been Dark Dragon, or might not have been."
"If it wasn't Dark Dragon..." Brando's voice lowered.
Neither of them continued discussing the answer to that question. Apart from Dark Dragon, only one other force had a motive to do such a thing—the Twilight Dragon. The implications behind this were so terrifying that even Brando couldn't help feeling chilled to the bone.
"The Buga people may have guessed this as well." Lord Feng Hou paused before answering. "They may originally have hoped that the Temple of Flames would stand on their