Abducting the Divine Son?
At the first sign of high risk, Fu Qian immediately thought of the age-old illegal practice of kidnapping.
As for the Lone King and the Native Council being allies, with the latter helping purely out of humanitarianism, Fu Qian thought that was highly unlikely.
For one thing, the Night Watcher clearly wasn't inclined to destroy this place. Unless things became irredeemable, the Lone King himself shouldn't be in much danger.
At worst, the Divine Son might be discovered and dealt with as a Hidden Danger.
In that case, the Native Council's actions would not only entail enormous risks, but would also make the situation more serious.
It would be a lose-lose move.
Not to mention that the Lone King clearly hadn't approved of them earlier. Then the Night Watcher had helped speed things along, and they'd immediately begun hesitating over which Ariel to bring down—the real one or the fake.
All things considered, the details might be hard to pin down, but it seemed highly likely that the Native Council had come here for the thing in Ariel's belly.
It was so important to them that they were willing to invite serious trouble.
Of course, he seemed to be in serious trouble himself.
Satisfying one's curiosity came at a price.
The Gap Between Time and Space, this special domain, had successfully shut the Night Watcher out, buying them a brief window to act.
It was an ingenious technique, a trump card for snatching victory from the jaws of danger.
But if they had such a useful technique, why hadn't they used it on him as well?
If they'd shut him out, they could have kept all those actions hidden—and been much safer, too.
It couldn't have been for the sake of this friendly little chat. That