The Titan-class battleship's powerful permanent alchemical arrays revolved beneath Duchess Gairebeian's feet, gradually expanding her spiritual perception to its limit. Her once-stagnant will of the void could now continuously scan the Seid Fortress from across more than one astronomical unit of empty space.
At present, she could not sense the fortress's physical structure or the deployment of its troops, nor could she determine the location of the enemy fleet. That was the result of astronomical distances in the physical sense. And yet, she could detect almost every spiritual presence within the fortress, thanks to the mysterious power of the occult.
However, the occult and the material world could be unified and corroborate one another.
This esper, who was on the verge of entering the demigod realm, had indeed determined the number of espers in the fortress. The strongest among them was on the path to becoming a saint. If that esper were given another ten years, perhaps he would grow into a great enemy of the empire. Just like the Seven Children of the Spirit Research Society.
...But the future was only the future. As for the empire's great enemy right now, he was indeed not inside the fortress. Duchess Gairebeian reached that conclusion.
But if Yu Lian wasn't at the fortress, was he trying to avoid danger? Had he seen through their plan?
The grander a plan was, the more groundwork it required; and the longer it stayed hidden, the more likely it was to slip out of control. Still, the mighty Galactic Empire was surely unmatched in occult knowledge, whatever one might say about its overall national power and technological level. It would never pin all its hopes on a single plan.
Besides, given that Yu Lian had already led the main force of the Earth fleet to