Paddock was still staring in stunned disbelief, but Director Tamon had already understood. "Among the Kuris Merchant Group's three or four million member nations, four are known to have Fifth-Tier beings. Now, at last, the number has reached five..."
"More importantly, Psionic evolution has finally produced the only known Saint!" Sage Tarando said excitedly.
"Not only in the Kuris Merchant Group—even among the other three interstellar-cluster alliances similar to it, this is the only known Saint!"
The Archangel's fleeting appearance brought the atmosphere at the gathering to a fever pitch.
Ever since passing through the space-time channel and entering the Empire's territory, one upheaval after another had left these visitors dumbfounded. When they realized there might be a being at the Saint level,
the merchant group erupted. Sages and other Psionic evolvers could no longer concern themselves with trade; they immediately chose to send the relevant intelligence back to the leaders of their respective civilizations.
In the divine kingdom, the Gods silently watched everything happening in the Material Realm. The Sages' supposedly covert Mind Transmissions were laid bare to the Gods' extraordinary perception.
And so, without anyone noticing, a vast amount of valuable intelligence was gathered.
"Besides us, four other civilizations in the Kuris Merchant Group have Fifth-Tier evolvers..." Wei Peng studied the valuable intelligence reports, his expression shifting slightly as he sighed, "The universe is so vast. It seems we've been woefully ignorant."
Apart from the Empire, the only other Fifth-Tier being they knew of was the Dark God in the Interstellar Conquest instance. The Empire had witnessed countless civilizations in its expansion, yet had encountered only a handful of Saints—most of them High-dimensional Demons, a disaster-class civilization.
But now they had heard directly of four Fifth-Tier beings. Though none were Saints from the Psionic side, it was still