"What's going on with Asra?"
"Could it be... something happened?"
Uma immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Meanwhile.
Asra, who had returned to his palace bedroom earlier, had not noticed the activity from his communication accessory right away.
Rekton's words had left his mind in turmoil.
He paced back and forth before the terrace, and in the end, he finally made up his mind.
He decided to follow Rexxar's instructions and head deep into the desert to leave himself a way out.
Only then did he have the presence of mind to look at the accessories he had carelessly tossed onto the bed earlier.
"Hmm?"
Seeing the ring flickering with a faint glow, Asra hurried over.
This was a specialized communication accessory developed by the Workshop under Prince Ayub.
It had long-range and short-range modes.
Long-range transmissions were delayed messages.
According to the standard of one to five red stripes, a message with a single red stripe—the least urgent level—would take roughly seventy-two hours to arrive.
Messages below three stripes would first be gathered at the terminal in Golden Unfallen Imperial City, then sorted and screened by Prince Ayub's intelligence department before being reported upward.
Those with three stripes or more could be delivered directly to Prince Ayub.
The delay ranged from six hours to thirty minutes.
This ultra-long-distance delayed communication technology also partially relied on nodes from the ancient Hearthstone Passage.
Short-range communication, on the other hand, was much simpler. Similar tokens could communicate instantly within a certain distance.
Judging by the light flickering on the ring, Asra knew this was a short-range transmission.
But that only made him more nervous.
After all, anyone who possessed such a communication accessory was at least a provincial Bey.
This was Dusk Sand Great City. It was impossible for a Bey from