When it came to understanding the nearby Underground World, it was certainly not the Holy Tower or Knights' Hall organizations in the region, but these Homeland Beings living beneath the earth.
The two Level-3 lifeforms standing respectfully at the edge of the temple had also heard most of Saine's earlier answer.
Facing the Goddess's question now, the spider leader and the Old Subhuman exchanged a glance, then both shook their heads in unspoken accord.
"Goddess, we Black-Bellied Spiders have not heard of any Spacetime Fluctuation nearby," the Black-Bellied Spider Leader replied.
"The same goes for all the Demi-human Tribes near Balas City. I have received no unusual news," the Level-3 Old Subhuman replied.
Given the statuses of the Black-Bellied Spider Leader and the Level-3 Old Subhuman, it was even less likely that they would lie to the Spider Goddess.
Even these two local kingpins knew nothing of it, so that Spacetime Fluctuation certainly was not nearby.
Saine had been right before. With the Eli Knights Alliance's vast territory, coupled with the tens of thousands of people assigned to the search, the odds of a Spacetime Fluctuation node being discovered by him were practically zero.
After all, from the perspective of probability, it was only 0.1%. What difference was there between that and zero?
And that was not even counting the possibility that the Spacetime Fluctuation node might not conceal some great rift in spacetime at all, but merely an exceedingly ordinary spacetime phenomenon, leaving him to draw water with a bamboo basket and come up empty-handed.
Saine had originally planned to swiftly complete the search of his assigned region within two years, then return to oversee the Academy War.
If luck favored him, he might even catch the tail end of it and see how the little ones of this