As Saine turned his attention to Momosuo Li, the Level-6 Creature of the Corellon Star Region,
someone else approached the man with the greatest apparent authority in the Corellon Star Region—King of Corellon.
As a semi-technological civilization, the Corellon Star Region followed a council-based upper-echelon system.
It did not rely entirely on strength to determine authority.
Therefore, King of Corellon could not monopolize power within his civilization. It could only be said that his voice carried the most weight, and that he enjoyed great prestige among the middle and lower ranks.
The one who approached King of Corellon was Bond, a Level-6 agent from the Galente Federation.
Bond had gone to no small trouble to reach the Corellon Star Region on this journey.
Almost the entire Federation had been blockaded by the Wizard Civilization's armies.
Bond had only managed to arrive in his Level-6 body by relying on the abilities of his World-Class Secret Treasure.
(If they were low-level creatures, however, their life magnetic fields were weaker and they attracted less attention from the Wizard Civilization, so their chances of escaping the blockade were actually higher.)
Bond had come to the Corellon Star Region this time with a mission.
He had come to solve the troubles of King of Corellon and the others.
"How can you help us resolve our difficulties?" King of Corellon asked curiously.
The Bond before him had changed greatly from the one King of Corellon had encountered years ago.
Bond had become more mature than before, and he bore even more old scars.
Perhaps because the situation on the Galente Federation's main battlefield was also far from optimistic, a trace of melancholy always hung on Bond's face.
When King of Corellon had first met Bond, the man had only been a Level-5 Creature.
Now that they