One day later.
Inside the Central Control Room of the Sun-Chasing Silver Shuttle, the Liquefaction Stage Alchemist Edward sighed at Locke, whom he had invited over, and several other wizards who had made significant contributions to defending the Void Battleship.
Edward said, "That's the situation."
"I've sent news of this attack to the Airship Administration of the White Wizard Association. The wizards of the Divination School there told me that the mastermind behind the attack on the airship was the witch Zoe, and that she came from the High Heaven Plains."
A First-Ring Wizard spoke up. "The High Heaven Plains?"
"It's a relatively high-level Wizard Land. Most of the wizard organizations there specialize in defensive magic. I've heard that Second-Ring Wizards are fairly common there, and that there are even Third-Ring and Fourth-Ring Wizards of the Protection School."
"Besides, the High Heaven Plains is the main... the main production center for the Void Battleship's defense systems."
The Void Battleship was jointly created by the various Wizard Lands of the Wizarding World. The White Wizard Association headquarters had invited the Wizard Lands across the entire Wizarding World to participate in the project, dividing every part of the Void Battleship into separate components, which wizard organizations from different Wizard Lands were responsible for designing, manufacturing, and assembling.
Thus, the Void Battleship was one of the magical crystallizations of Wizard Civilization.
The old wizard Edward said helplessly, "That's right."
"And it was precisely because of this that the other side was so familiar with the operating methods and defense systems of this Void Battleship, which had already been retired from the front lines."
"On top of that, they used the Ptolemy Family of the Land of Six Towers as cover and actually managed to deceive us, boarding the Void Battleship in full view