Methods to Stop the Emergence

"Oh, no!"

Upon hearing that Ikaris and Ajak were under attack by Deviants, Sprite's little face turned pale with fright in an instant.

"C... could it be that Ikaris has already... already..."

Her eye sockets instantly turned red.

Crystal tears fell continuously like small pearls.

Strucker leisurely added at this point, "You're crying too early, Ms. Sprite. Although Mr. Ikaris is seriously injured, our people arrived in time and rescued him from the hands of the Deviants!"

Sprite's crying choked off.

She blinked her eyes twice, hurriedly wiped away her tears, and instead looked at Strucker with a fierce expression.

"Y... why didn't you say so earlier!"

Strucker smiled bitterly and spread his hands. "I didn't expect your tears to fall so fast~"

"Hmph~" Sprite let out a cold snort and turned her face away angrily.

A hint of a smile flashed across Strucker's face, and he continued with a mix of nine truths and one lie, "Ms. Sprite, we barely managed to rescue Mr. Ikaris, but as for the other lady, Ms. Ajak... alas~~~"

Sprite's expression panicked, and she hurriedly leaned over the small window to ask, "How is Ajak?!"

Strucker wore a look of regret.

"Ms. Ajak doesn't seem very good at combat. When our people arrived, she was already on her last breath."

"Oh, no!" Sprite's eye rims turned red, and she started stringing small pearls again.

"Ajak... how could this be... how is this possible..."

"No wonder... no wonder nobody notified us about the Emergence happening early. Ajak, the only one who could communicate mentally with the Celestials, has sacrificed herself. Who else could possibly notify us?"

While she was shedding tears drop by drop over there, Strucker inadvertently harvested another piece of information over here.

Only the dead Ajak among the ten Eternals possessed the