With Manu urging them on, the signal monitor hurriedly sent the translated message to his communicator.
He opened it right away. The signal wasn't long once translated into the Star Network Community's standard language—just over a hundred words at most. It was signed [Wind Oil Essence, representative of the Undying on Golden Valley Star], and the message said Golden Valley Star was in crisis and hoped [the Sea Lion Galaxy's newly appointed Saintess · founder of the Darkmoon Tide Private Armed Company · Darknight Sovereign · Bai Fu] would come to Golden Valley Star and help quell the calamity.
"This signal really was sent to Saintess Bai Fu!"
Manu's pupils jolted.
The Sea Lion Galaxy's newly appointed Saintess, the founder of Darkmoon Tide—who else could it be but the Saintess Bai Fu he knew?
But what shocked him wasn't that the message was addressed to Bai Fu. It was what the sender, Wind Oil Essence, had called her—
Darknight Sovereign!
Wait, a Sovereign?!
Manu shook his head hard.
Had he read that wrong? Sovereigns were stronger than Calamity-Rank Espers, second only to the Transcendent level.
The strongest individual combat force openly known in the entire Initial Gate Star Cluster wasn't even close to Sovereign level. It couldn't even reach High Calamity Rank; it was only Low Calamity Rank.
"This Wind Oil Essence probably doesn't mean the same thing by 'Sovereign' as we do. Otherwise, this is way too outrageous. A Sovereign from a Dark Domain civilization... Impossible. Saintess Bai Fu's demonstrated strength before was only... huh?"
Manu suddenly froze.
Deep down, he didn't really believe Bai Fu was a Sovereign. If a Sovereign came to such a remote little place at the edge of the Edge World star region as the Initial Gate Star Cluster, she could simply become an