Clown gritted his teeth. "No, we don't hold the authority that controls this region's mechanisms. Forcing our way through would be incredibly difficult. But this is strange. That authority isn't in Silia's hands either. Where could she have hidden something so important?!"
A King Beast floated above the sea and spoke in a raspy voice.
"I was there when Silia activated the extinction mechanism. I remember the conversation between her and her servants when they set it in motion. She didn't invoke the Annihilation Order directly. She gave an order."
That meant the authority probably hadn't been on her person at the time.
Then the most likely possibility was-
The authority controlling the mechanisms here was now at the Border!
Lynn abruptly looked toward the distant end of the horizon and spoke gravely against the raging wind and rain.
"Then let's move!"
Dozens of King Beasts immediately set off, carrying Lynn and the others through the wind and waves toward the edge of the sea.
Black mist churned.
Along the way, conditions above the sea grew increasingly hostile. Even without Hell's mechanisms driving it, lightning fell in sheets from the black mist onto the ocean.
"Beyond that stretch of sea ahead lies Life's Red Line. The Female Host's influence is too strong there. Apart from Jailers, ordinary creatures can no longer resist the process of Chaos corrupting their bodies. Once we reach it, we'll be in our territory!"
A King Beast quickly explained this to Lynn.
Lynn soon sensed the change in the surrounding aura as well. Both the air and the ocean seemed suffused with some influence capable of tearing a person apart.
He immediately activated the firstborn power within the Trident, covering every Origin present with a thin veil of power.
And gradually-
The ocean itself seemed to