Upon activating her ability, Ling discovered that Wander Night had once been activated, and that the contingency message she had left behind had been opened at that moment.
Ling felt her fingertips turn ice-cold!
Worried that some idiot might get himself into trouble again while she was in hibernation, she had installed a mental-state detection module through the Black Box, allowing Wander Night to immediately teleport to his side and help him escape danger.
It was Ling's contingency among contingencies, a final measure that would only activate when Fang Ran himself recognized that he was in mortal danger!
Though she would never say it aloud, Ling had reluctantly acknowledged that with the External Core that unleashed "Infinity," that idiot possessed power that ordinary A-ranks could not resist.
But it had actually been activated once. That meant the threat had surpassed A-rank.
He had encountered a life-threatening crisis involving an A-rank Upper Tier!?
The instant she realized that—more precisely, the instant she realized that during her hibernation—
Fang Ran had nearly died—
Ling was seized by intense panic. The discomfort in her mind worsened, and her limbs felt weak, as though all her strength had been drained away.
But after a century, the soul of an A-rank Upper Tier allowed her to calm down at once.
Calm down! He's fine now. He still comes every night to train his abilities!
"Eir, what happened while I was in hibernation?"
Queen-like, crystalline light flowed through her pale golden eyes as Ling raised her voice and demanded coldly.
A new virtual projection interface unfolded, and Eir answered truthfully.
"On the night of the 19th last month, the Wander Night system detected that Fang Ran had recognized himself to be in mortal danger and spatially jumped to the mountainous outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland."
"It repelled