Consider what?
Pairs of eyes turned toward her in astonishment, as though looking at some priceless treasure, or something strange, their gazes so complicated they could morph from pie charts into line graphs.
They fully displayed the turmoil within, more winding than a mountain road with eighteen bends.
Ye Buyu shrank back. Under everyone's scrutiny, she repeated herself despite her fear.
"Consider changing the rules of the River of Forgetfulness."
Someone asked dazedly, "How?"
"No idea." Ye Buyu sounded confident despite having no grounds to be. "How am I, a Third Tier, supposed to answer a question about humanity's fate?"
She silently pushed a Social Security Bureau officer's head back and pointed toward the Lords watching them like predators.
"They're our biggest problem right now. The River of Forgetfulness isn't much of an issue. It can't explode right now anyway, and any changes will have to wait. I have everyone else's souls. We have just one goal: find a way out."
Not much of an issue. Couldn't explode...
Every word tap-danced on their nerves, but they had to admit that the facts seemed to check out.
[Rift Lord] punched aside the person before him and strode toward Ye Buyu, both hands clenched into fists. The air around him surged, and the ground shook as though it might split apart at any moment.
"You've got nerve, snatching people from a Calamity. But can you take them away?"
Vast power erupted from his palms as he tried to seize the souls in Ye Buyu's hands with Calamity Power.
[Tsunami Lord] diverted a sliver of power, condensing water into a sharp blade and swinging it down at Ye Buyu amid the crowd.
"My apologies, Princess. If we let you take those souls away in full view of everyone, we'll be nailed to the