The world heart?
Carrollus and Charlotte both turned to look. Once they confirmed what Xu Yuan had found, delight spread across their faces.
Whatever else happened,
finding something valuable just as the mission began was a good omen.
Who didn't like getting off to a flying start?
"I've never heard of anyone just picking up a world heart. I'll take a look around later too," Andrei said.
"Finish building the bunker first," Xu Yuan said.
A rustling came from the woods.
Marcelo was patrolling nearby, making the noise as he passed through the dense trees.
Joaquin had gone farther and had yet to return.
Everything was normal.
Xu Yuan found himself thinking about their mission.
Establish a permanent base in the Black Coffin Universe—
That proved the Alliance was beginning to take the Black Coffin Universe seriously.
Perhaps the Sword Ring wasn't the only achievement of this civilization that had caught the Floating City leadership's eye.
Suddenly,
Xu Yuan's thoughts stopped, and he looked in one direction.
An exceedingly faint ripple of power
came from several thousand miles away.
Someone was probably locked in a fierce battle.
"Hey."
Xu Yuan called out.
Andrei and the others were S-rank and skilled in Mystic Arts. Naturally, they could sense fluctuations in energy.
As far as they were concerned, it was perfectly normal for an ability user like Xu Yuan, who specialized in space, to sense a fierce battle thousands of miles away.
"Maybe a team's been exposed, or maybe they had rotten luck and ran into one of this Universe's monsters," Carrollus said.
"Leave them be. We'll finish our own mission first," Andrei said.
Xu Yuan nodded and said nothing more.
The monsters in this world were difficult to deal with, and they were exceptionally good at calling for reinforcements.
His own