Just after Saintess Xiweina Ye's Void Flying Shuttle vanished, a sweet-looking girl with twin ponytails stepped out from behind a nearby ruin. She gazed thoughtfully in the direction Xiweina Ye had gone and murmured, "The Holy Light Church really spared no expense! For that little bit of Terminal Psychic Energy, they were willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of Holy Crusaders and several Legendary Rank powerhouses." Then she looked north. "That huge thing suddenly charged north. I wonder what happened."
"Maybe I should go see for myself."
The girl, Arudika, seemed tempted to follow the World Consciousness Aggregate and find out.
But after thinking it over, she suppressed her curiosity and shook her twin ponytails. "Nope! Too dangerous. Better stay away from that monster. Marquis Belon was already Mid-Level Legendary, and it crushed him with one hand. I'm not going to get myself killed. I'd better hurry back to the Main World and meet up with Modi. He died, and I wonder how much strength he'll recover after his resurrection."
Still muttering to herself, Arudika sped toward the Rune Federation garrison.
Green's appearance had drawn the World Consciousness Aggregate's attention, inadvertently giving the Revolutionary Army a little breathing room.
Outside Stinnard, in the camp once occupied by the Royal Guard, the situation had changed.
The camp now belonged to the Revolutionary Army. The battered troops who had withdrawn from the city had joined the reinforcements from the south and, with the help of the sturdy camp walls, had finally held off the Undead Army's siege.
But the outlook was grim. They had repelled the Undead Army for now, yet as Death Psychic Energy spread, more creatures were infected and transformed. The Undead Army would only grow, and the camp's defenses would fall sooner or later.
Inside the camp, the sudden