After drinking the potion, Klein did not report to the people beside him. Relying on his control over his body, he swiftly regained his mobility and darted out.
"This..."
Several archbishops reacted at once. One of them, even more surprised, turned to look at Bonova as if asking whether they should chase after him, only to find that Bonova still had his eyes closed.
The Pope certainly had not fallen asleep or failed to notice the boy's movements, so what the Pope meant was...
Before he could figure it out, a thunderous series of firecracker-like blasts rang out from outside.
Considering the rest ahead, Klein had chosen a spot downwind and run far enough away. But this was the accumulated stock of a full day's worth of the three urgencies, so naturally, it was no ordinary matter.
The archbishop's eyelids twitched twice. Speechlessly, he turned his head back, and he was clearly not the only one at a loss for words.
Although Extraordinary beings of the Perfectionist pathway were all experts who dealt with knowledge and possessed vast stores of it, there were ultimately differences in emphasis between one kind of knowledge and another.
Even among knowledge they had already mastered, familiarity varied according to how often they encountered and used it in daily life. Simply put, the order in which it surfaced in their minds differed.
And clearly, for these archbishops who had long since become Sequence Four and later advanced to Sequence Three after transferring to the Church of the God of Crafts, it had been a very long time since anyone had displayed or even mentioned knowledge related to the cycle of grains.
As a result, aside from Bonova, who had carried Klein the entire way and knew his condition perfectly well, the archbishops had not even