Tuesday

"Although I only recently became a Spirit Medium and have no idea how long it will take to fully digest the potion, there's no harm in preparing early..." Jane answered, choosing her words carefully.

Cattleya looked at the subordinate the Queen Mystic had placed aboard her ship. Knowing Jane had not told her the whole truth, she thought wearily, I thought I finally had someone who wouldn't give me headaches. Turns out she's just like the others aboard, always finding trouble for me...

Still, despite her weariness, Cattleya pondered for a moment before asking, "Who exactly is this Sequence 5 Gatekeeper? Tell me in detail."

Jane dared not conceal anything about this matter, lest she endanger her captain, herself, and Xio. Thus, she gave a detailed account of Baron Kangwa's background, as Abner had told it to her, along with his subsequent battle against the MI9 squad. Only then did she conclude:

"Overall, that Gatekeeper himself is equivalent to a powerful Sequence 5 with a demigod-level Sealed Artifact. The strength of his strange spirit is unknown, but judging by its earlier performance, it should only be at Sequence 5 or Sequence 6."

A baron from over seven hundred years ago... corrupted by a higher being... a Gatekeeper who can use Black Knight abilities... and that's without counting the strange spirit...

Although Admiral of Stars Cattleya had anticipated some of this, she had not expected Jane's target to be so difficult to deal with. She paused in surprise before saying helplessly:

"Against someone like that, even if you use the Sealed Artifact you obtained from the mausoleum to temporarily control Ludwell and have him work with me, we could at most defeat him. Keeping him from escaping would be difficult... I advise you to give up."

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