After a moment...
"Don't go in! Wait!"
Amid a round of shouts, several Banshees rushed over at full speed, only to see the Buriers vanish into the white fog.
"Damn it, how did they get in so fast?!" Nini angrily smacked the ground with her tail. "What do we do now? Go back and tell the lord they delivered themselves straight in?"
Ash circled around in front of the white fog several times, staring hard at it for a while before cocking an ear to listen.
"Well? Can you still see anyone?"
Ash slowly shook his head. "Nothing. I've told the lord about them."
"What did the lord say?"
"The lord..." Ash paused before continuing, "the lord told us to contact logistics and get a few carriages over here."
"Huh?"
Elsewhere, within the white fog of an unknown sea, the shell of Worker Theus listened to Gwen's complaints through the connection.
"What are they doing? Why did they just charge in for no reason? They even looked like they were about to self-destruct one after another?"
"Maybe there was some misunderstanding. Did they blow up on you?"
"No. They were just about to, but I pressed them back down. I might've used a little too much force, though, so you'd better send some people to pick them up," Gwen said irritably.
"Come to think of it, how are you doing now? Should we—"
"We'll talk later. I have something important to do right now! You know Bazel, right? I'm trying to separate him out. Didn't you want to take him back to Castel for trial? Now's your chance."
"It's not actually that important. If it's too troublesome, forget it. I can accept him dying in the white fog," Theus said casually.
"Oh, are you sure? You saw that pile of