Holy Number Is Nine

What did it feel like for an undercover agent to successfully make it ashore and become the top authority of a region?

Naimus had only one word for it—awesome!

Jialis was still around, so his authority remained under strict supervision for the time being, but the Church's various secret vaults had already been opened to Naimus.

Among them was information on the Azure Sky Whale.

The Azure Sky Whale was among the earliest Sky Whales to be bred.

It had been derived from the Source Whale roughly a thousand years ago and theoretically still had around two thousand years left to live.

Of course, according to its annual physical examinations, the Azure Sky Whale was clearly in a "subhealthy" state. Its estimated lifespan was only seventy percent of the original projection, leaving it with roughly fourteen hundred years.

Moreover, that theoretical lifespan would decrease at an increasingly rapid rate as time passed.

Everyone knew the reason for this as well.

The moment Naimus saw this, he frowned.

"It only has seventy percent left, and that seventy-percent multiplier declines every century." There was a trace of anger in Naimus's voice.

This was his Sky Whale!

Those people actually had so little regard for the environment, so little regard for the Sky Whale that had nurtured and carried them. They were truly guilty!

Jialis nodded at the side.

She was a high-ranking member of the Enclosure Faction, even one of its few leaders.

And the most important principle of the Enclosure Faction was protecting one's own land.

The fact that Naimus became angry upon seeing this information showed that his heart aligned with the Enclosure Faction.

This time, although Guilliman had been held responsible and exiled because he had failed to discover the Twin Demon's scheme—

—if he could endure that battlefield,