When "Lord Thus-Spoke · Dreamlike Illusion" appeared again, he was already seated in the air above a branch office building of "Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd."
His form was illusory, surrounded by countless transparent bubbles reflecting the births and deaths of civilizations, as he looked down from above upon the vast region under the jurisdiction of this branch of "Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd."
At the very center of the enormous technological hub below, bustling like interwoven star systems, a shocking blank blind spot had abruptly appeared on the data-monitoring star map that had originally operated with meticulous precision.
According to the intelligence he had just obtained, only seconds earlier, a novice village observed by this region had collapsed out of existence, like a star collapsing inward.
No energy storm had spilled out. Even its coordinates in the underlying space-time framework, "anchored by Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd.," had been completely erased in that instant.
It was as though something had taken that novice village away.
Like a thief walking through the darkness, casually plucking an insignificant marble from a chessboard of stars.
"The second one!"
"What exactly happened in the novice villages!"
Thinking of the novice village that had likewise disappeared in another region, "Lord Thus-Spoke · Dreamlike Illusion" could not help murmuring softly.
That, too, had been a standard novice village territory linked to the monitoring network of "Sea of Stars Technology Co., Ltd." It had likewise lost all response within an extremely short time, finally becoming a mass of unobservable nothingness.
His intuition told him that if he could not find the cause of the novice villages' destruction as soon as possible, control over the extra-large event "The Price of All Things' Choice" would slip through their fingers.
That would not only mean a