In truth, news of the changes in the Atlantis Sea was still circulating only among Semrio's upper echelons-and the very highest of those, at that.
The reason was that the merfolk had used a Void God's magic to construct an enormous magic array. Coupled with the deliberate concealment by the Titan construct in Starry Town, the actual impact had been very small.
So small that the Knight Commander had to think for a moment before she understood. "You mean that sea belonging to the Merfolk Tribe?"
"...An elven Divine Vessel sank there?"
Her expression was peculiar, as though she were asking whether he was joking.
The elves' territory lay in the waters beyond humanity's sphere of influence. Their shipbuilding industry was astonishing, and their so-called Divine Vessels had even been blessed by nature.
Even the fiercest storms should not have overturned and sunk one.
That left only one possibility.
"Of course it was sunk deliberately." Icarus still wore a smile, but his words made the Knight Commander deeply uncomfortable-
"Our ancestor once foresaw that the Merfolk Tribe would use a Void God's power to compress the ocean's nature consciousness, so they deliberately used an Orpheus Oak to carry its shattered fragments."
"With the nature consciousness's help, the oak would possess legendary-level magical fluctuations, and a crystal of the Atlantis Sea would condense within his heartwood.
Sacrificing him would certainly heal the fractures in the earth."
After hearing this, the Knight Commander blurted out, "You did this deliberately! You schemed against the nature consciousness! This is blasphemy against the Mother Goddess!"
Well, now she was the one pointing a finger in someone's face and berating them.
As a faithful believer in the Earth Mother Goddess, she naturally could not tolerate his flippant tone as he spoke of manipulating the nature consciousness.