"You didn't know?"
"No, of course I didn't! Nobody knows what's at the bottom of the Abyssal Sea. The moon is beyond the reach of the Great Beings' power. Are you saying your... our Lord can even control the moon?!"
Lillian's voice grew noticeably excited.
She knew the Great Being holding her captive was powerful, but she hadn't expected such power!
If the lord of this place really was that powerful, perhaps staying here to serve... wouldn't be such a bad thing?
But Lillian's expression soon dimmed.
She was an Immortal of the Hollow Cathedral, and her Path was bound to it. If she betrayed it, she would never be able to use the cathedral's Formless Art again.
"Why not go and see for yourself? You came from there, anyway."
Lillian frowned at that, recalling what she had seen back then.
"That place was packed with Dream Creatures. I don't even want to remember how many there were... Going there would be pure suicide."
"What if we just opened a small gap and lured some Dream Creatures inside?"
"Well..." Lillian's expression turned strange. "It's possible, but are you sure you want to open a gap to the Sea of the Moon inside the Courtyard?"
"If those Dream Creatures got in, it would be no small matter."
Elliot looked at the display on the Brass Dial. After a moment's hesitation, he shook his head.
"There's no rush to open that passage. At least not in the next two days."
He had spent quite a bit of time helping his Believers advance. Tomorrow was the day the Old Duke had arranged for his ritual.
That ritual was a large part of the reason Elliot had been so eager to raise his Believers' ranks.
He had learned from Sidney and Michel that