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Empress: "@The Star, you hadn't joined yet when we discussed that, had you?"

Justice: "Huh? That happened?"

Riesling had assumed he'd missed plenty of conversations because he'd joined late. That was normal enough, and he had nothing to say about it.

But he hadn't expected The Star to be in the same boat.

And she'd acted like she knew all along, fooling even him?

After Ruan Qingyi had just shut him down, Riesling felt like he'd been played.

Justice: "The Star, I never thought you were that kind of person."

The Star: "I don't remember. I might not have been there at the time, but The Pope told me about it afterward."

Even after being called out, Ruan Qingyi didn't seem bothered. She immediately defended herself.

Ruan Qingyi was working with Nemo, so while developing the Evolution Item, she'd gotten old chat logs from him to study.

That was where she'd seen the conversation.

It was why she'd been able to follow Lan Qingyou's train of thought right away.

The Tower: "Yes, we did talk about it before."

Ignoring the others' digression, Lan Qingyou went straight to the answer.

The Tower: "When we discussed this before, didn't someone suggest wearing magic power like clothing?"

The Tower: "After hearing The Star compare seawater and air a few days ago, I thought of another possibility: covering our clothes with our own magic power to form a barrier that reduces the effect of external magic power on us."

The Tower: "Basically, it's like putting on a Buffer Suit made of magic power. No matter how harsh the environment outside gets, the Mana Cloak can cancel out its magic power."

The Tower: "Of course, I'm only talking about magic power. You'd still have to take shelter from physical dangers. After all, even the strongest