I Already Know Who It Is

Since they could alter Personal Information,

then it was clearly easy for the World Will to add a nonexistent [Title] entry as well.

In fact, if the World Will hadn't left this backdoor, Professor Sai might not have found it so easy to alter anything.

"Then here's the question: as the collective will of this world, why doesn't it gather energy itself, instead of going about it in such a roundabout way?"

"The answer's simple. It can't do it on its own, so it needs someone else to gather energy for it."

Lan Qingyou snapped her fingers at Esmeralda.

A confident smile spread across her face.

"Right."

Esmeralda's eyes lit up.

Then she smiled at Lan Qingyou.

"But that raises another question."

"What question?"

Gu Xiaobei, holding a bowl of seafood soup in both hands, played along.

"As the collective will of the entire world, it needs someone else to do things it can't do itself. That's hard to make sense of."

"Keep in mind, this is a world of Magic. With Magic Power, you can do all sorts of things that would be unimaginable on Blue Star."

"So a being like the World Will should be able to command an enormous amount of Magic Power."

"The thing above our heads is proof enough."

Lan Qingyou turned to Gu Xiaobei, then pointed at the Magic Array overhead.

Everyone followed her finger and looked up at the sky.

What they saw wasn't a Magic Array, but a transparent, slightly warped Protective Barrier.

But that was proof enough.

"Even though the other party has power, they still chose to do things this way. That leaves only two possibilities."

"One is that they've become so weak they're on the verge of disappearing. In that case, it's understandable that they can't do it."

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