After finally leaving Gongsun Wudi in a starfield near the Tianming Empire's garrison, Saine hurried back to the Ashes Legion's base.
Saine's time ahead remained extremely tight.
Many matters needed to be arranged in advance.
This included the Despair World followers temporarily settled by the Mamet United Alliance. Saine needed the mages of Ash Holy Tower to make contact with them as well.
Holy Tower Dean Meili was well suited for this task.
During the half-year after returning to Ash Fortress, Saine had played far too wildly and had nearly neglected his proper business.
But Saine could not be blamed for that.
No one was perfect.
What he had accomplished already surpassed the vast majority of people.
It was during Saine's journey back from the civilization command center to the Ashes Legion that someone else of immense importance to him appeared before him once more.
This person was not Tourmaline. She seemed to still be with the Immortal Domain Dragon Race.
Tourmaline did not even know that she had "gone missing" for several hundred years.
To protect her, the others had not told Tourmaline about the matter before.
Taking Tourmaline to the Immortal Domain Dragon Race had also been meant to divert her attention.
Saine did not mind this.
He did not want to see Tourmaline sad and distressed either.
Besides, she had only disappeared for a mere few hundred years... When Tourmaline took a nap, it sometimes lasted even longer than that.
The one who now appeared before Saine again was Duan Po's younger sister—Duan Ning.
Several hundred years ago, when faced with the Galente Federation's Endless Light Strike, she had been the only one swept into the Space-Time Channel whom Duan Po had forcibly sent out.
Throughout these past centuries, Duan Ning had never given up searching for