"Now that things had come to this, we could only take it one step at a time."
Dan Heng said in a low voice:
"We could use the Black Tide as a breakthrough. Now that Nikadori had fallen, the forces it suppressed would inevitably begin to strike back..."
"It seemed... our Trailblazing journey had become more significant than ever."
Amphoreus was a world Akivili had never reached. If Dan Heng and Yan Huan could successfully Trailblaze it, the Star Rail Express's Trailblazing power would receive an enormous boost.
Elsewhere.
The observation deck on the outskirts of the Cloud Stone Celestial Palace.
"Don't worry, Little Mydei." Tribbie stood behind Mydei and comforted him.
"This isn't the first time something like this has happened. A long time ago..."
Mydei cut her off. "I'm not worried about him."
"If it came down to it, Brother Yan Huan's healing methods were no worse than those physicians'."
"If the savior couldn't even survive this, then he was simply doomed to die."
"Oh... all right." Tribbie lowered her head.
"I just noticed you'd gone a little quiet."
"...My apologies." Mydei turned around and sighed.
"I shouldn't have been so rude."
"I knew that man would pull through."
"It's fine." Tribbie smiled.
"Little Mydei, what we wanted to ask was... what did you see in Nikadori's trial?"
Mydei brushed it off casually. "...Something that frightened me."
"Heh, ironic, wasn't it?"
He looked at Tribbie and laughed at himself.
"The words 'fear' and 'afraid' should never have existed in a Xuan Feng person's dictionary."
"Then do you think you have a chance of defeating it? That thing that frightens you?" Tribbie asked.
Mydei raised a brow. "Was this part of your plan too?"
"What do you mean?" Tribbie did not quite understand.
Mydei got straight to the