Never appeared?
Hearing such a mysterious rumor, Fang Ran marveled at how many things in the Night Battle world he still did not know. Swaying at the height of roughly fifteen stories,
in caterpillar form, he asked with innocent disbelief,
"It never appeared even once?"
"Not even once."
Ling repeated calmly, dragging virtual screens together and overlapping them to reconstruct the scenes Clotilde had not "recorded" for her,
searching for who exactly had retrieved the wreckage of that Mechanical Dragon in the end.
"Even I only learned of its existence after creating 'Night Wanderer.' For the vast majority of people,"
"they do not even know that the Night Battle world has a sixth Ultimate Power."
"So mysterious."
Amazed by Ling's confirmation, Fang Ran suddenly remembered that she had said "known" when referring to the Final Ruler earlier. He immediately asked curiously:
"Then is that Ultimate Power strong? Is it even stronger than Esboa's?"
But after asking, Fang Ran saw Ling give him a look as if he were an idiot.
"I said it has never appeared even once, didn't I?"
As if she were asking how he had managed to pose such a stupid question.
Fang Ran: Uh.
Wondering where his clever side had gone, since he always acted like such an idiot around her,
"Its codename, its technological focus, who its owner is—there are no intelligence leads on any of that."
After saying this and withdrawing her gaze, Ling's cool voice shifted slightly.
"But even an Ultimate Power is, by nature, a weapon used as conventional combat strength. And weapons are meant to be used. To create one and then keep it hidden away..."
Speaking of that mysterious mech, she lowered her light-gold eyes, a trace of inquiry gleaming within them.
"It really makes one wonder why that person