Hearing Klein's guess, Odys did not immediately offer an opinion, because he felt that if the Hidden Sage were to descend upon Backlund, there should be no need for a ritual lasting several days!
"Maybe it's another evil god." Odys said, "I received some intelligence, though I don't know whether it's accurate. Some members of the Moses Ascetic Order still believe in evil gods other than the Hidden Sage."
Klein frowned. "Would the Hidden Sage allow such members to exist?"
"I don't know the specifics either." Odys took a deep breath. "I just recalled some cases of evil gods descending.
"Although those cultists needed a long time to prepare, the descent ritual itself seemed not to take much time."
Klein recalled what he had experienced in Tingen City. That was indeed the case.
The process of an evil god's descent was very fast. If left unchecked, perhaps the True Creator could descend into the Real World in just over ten minutes, given all the prior preparations.
"I also received a piece of confirmed intelligence." Odys admitted. "This evil god descent ritual needs to last several days. That doesn't resemble an ordinary evil god descent ritual."
It was more like it needed to break through layer upon layer of barriers and complete the descent from the starry sky.
Klein's expression grew grave as well. He also guessed that it was very likely an evil god not in the Real World.
Odys pressed the crystal and asked again, "Did you divine where this Newsboy came from?"
"I..." Klein was just about to reveal his divination result when he realized that a Sequence 7 could not possibly divine the result of such a high-level ritual.
But Klein also thought of how urgent the situation was. After hesitating, he said, "I divined it and