"Besides, Amon ambushed me this time not just to get under my skin and settle the score for the avatar I captured in Tingen. He probably also wanted to test the Goddess's condition... no, more precisely, her attitude.
"And he got the answer he wanted. Even when my life was in danger, the Goddess didn't intervene. That means either she truly can't act, or she has something far bigger planned and won't act lightly...
"Either way, Amon will be entering Backlund soon!
"His first priority, after all, is finding Pallez Zoroast and the holder of Sefirah Castle...
"As for me, 'Alvin Abraham'... I doubt he takes me very seriously.
"He probably just sees me as an 'interesting' toy.
"What I don't know is whether he really only knows that Abner is Alvin, or whether he's deceiving me and knows more...
"But one thing I'm sure of: he doesn't know about Liu Bo yet. Otherwise, I'd sense it."
As Abner pondered this, he sensed that Suah's power was gradually fading. The fleet that had surrounded Tracy below, however, had already been destroyed when the Abomination appeared.
Nearly all the sailors had gone mad. Some had even lost control and turned into monsters. They hacked at their companions with swords, tore at each other with their teeth, or raised their guns, took aim at themselves, and pulled the triggers...
In short, the new fleet assembled by the Rose School from the Admiral of Blood's remaining forces had been wiped out before it could even make a name for itself.
Its three Sequence 5 Beyonders, five Sequence 6 Beyonders, and numerous Lower Sequence Beyonders had mostly either lost control or died.
Abner was shaking his head and preparing to clean up the aftermath when he spotted a man in his forties quietly slipping