Inside the Hyperion.
As she walked along the deck, Seele noticed something was off.
Why was everyone around her in such a hurry?
Though she did not quite understand, this was unmistakably the posture of war. The Hyperion faced north, fully prepared to depart at any moment and accelerate to full speed at the first sign of trouble.
She had heard that even Knight Durandal had received orders to set out at any time.
What kind of monster could put all of Schicksal, from top to bottom, into such a tense state of emergency?
Seele did not know.
She merely saw Sister Bronya's tightly furrowed brow and, with that man absent from her side, felt a little worried.
"Seele, have you seen Zhao Bai?"
"Brother-in-law... said this morning that he had a mission to carry out, so he left early."
Bronya said nothing, only nodded gently. Her tightly furrowed brow did not ease in the slightest; instead, she found it even stranger—all active personnel's missions had been suspended, so how had Zhao Bai gone off to carry out a mission?
A golden sphere floated upon the sea, like the sun.
Zhao Bai and Otto sat at opposite ends of the golden sphere, first passing through a brief silence.
Otto spoke first.
"This started five hundred years ago..."
"Cough, cough."
Zhao Bai shook his head and replied, "I know perfectly well what happened five hundred years ago. Lord Bishop, just get to the important part."
"Then let us discuss why you came to this world."
"..."
"Many years ago, I found the possibility of parallel worlds within Void Archive's library. The key to the bridge connecting all of this was the Herrscher of the Void's power. At the time, I used the mimic Divine Key to conduct accelerated experiments and observed