Six months later.
When the Space-Time Fortress, which had been away from the Super Refining Vortex Eye for three and a half years, returned to the coordinates, space rippled within the Death Storm, and the enormous metal platform wrapped in a super-pure water protective membrane gradually appeared.
Almost immediately, Corleon tried to contact Reilo with a Crystal Ball, but got no response.
His aged face darkened slightly!
But after a moment's thought, he quickly used the Crystal Ball to contact someone else.
This time, the other party answered quickly. The figure on the Crystal Ball's light screen was Moon Lotus Anna, the Moon Eye. But her background was the endless Death Storm Desert. The Crystal Ball signal lasted only a few seconds before cutting off, and Corleon's mood darkened again just as he was about to speak.
A few days later.
When Moon Lotus Anna arrived aboard the Space-Time Fortress with the dozens of surviving scholars, looking utterly bedraggled, the scholars who had come to welcome them couldn't help feeling concerned.
Although they'd learned a little about the situation in the past few days, communications between both sides had been limited by the Death Storm, so they hadn't gotten the full picture. Now they could finally learn what had happened inside!
Moon Lotus Anna hurried into the conference room.
She was secretly astonished that the Academic World had sent so many dean-level Pioneers.
Even without counting the dozen or so new-generation Pioneers, four renowned Pioneers of the older generation had come: the Frost Sorcerer, Glory Sword Jace Seiran, the astrologer Hei'erwen, and the Dark Seal Master Corleon.
"The Gray Beans have all been forcibly awakened by Mother Bean. For now, there's no need to worry about Law Aura draining from Star Source Holy Mountain. Grandmaster Reilo's final order was for