As Edwin's words fell, this world of shattered mirrors instantly plunged into silence.
The muscles in the white-haired man's shoulder, where he carried the greatsword, tensed for an instant. The gray-robed ascetic's face beneath his hood seemed to turn toward him. Even the other two presences, who had remained silent and whose forms were blurred in shadow, gave off a trace of instability.
Of course, they had discussed it.
Within the Kingdom of Loen, a high-ranking insider had taken the lead, joining several forces that hated Edwin Clift to the bone in devising this near-perfect assassination plan.
Intelligence was the core of the plan. They had combed through every piece of information they could find, from Edwin's rise to prominence in Backlund to the establishment of his vast industrial empire. Every public and secret report had been laid on the table.
The conclusion had been clear.
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The target, Edwin Clift, had obtained Beyonder characteristics from Machinery Hivemind—the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery.
His Sequence was certainly not low.
But its upper limit was equally clear: Sequence 3.
Because Sequence 0 of the Savant pathway existed, there could correspondingly be no Sequence 1.
And due to the law of Beyonder characteristic conservation, even if Edwin were extraordinarily talented and could drink potions like water—
With several Sequence 2s already having emerged within the Church of Steam and Machinery, the possibility of Edwin becoming a Sequence 2 was infinitesimal.
Thus, their final conclusion was that Edwin could be, at most, a Sequence 3 Arcane Scholar.
Based on their past experience, the Savant pathway's strength lay in its understanding and application of knowledge, in its inconceivable Beyonder creations.
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