On the plaza in front of the central tower of "Morning Star City," Lazar stood there blankly, staring at the deep blue ocean beneath the floating city, the various fish occasionally leaping out of the water, the mermaids singing enchanting songs, and the orange-red sun that had just approached the horizon.

If he hadn’t lost the relevant functions, he felt that he would probably already be shedding tears... yet even so, he could feel some of his implanted equipment beginning to "overheat," forcing him to draw some water from his tank to start cooling himself.

Under normal circumstances, he would never be so extravagant. He would simply enter dormancy and let his components cool naturally—after all, in "Morning Star City," water was a scarce resource. The price of a single unit of water was equivalent to 30 standard units of energy.

But at this moment, he had no such concerns. On one hand, he couldn’t bear to look away; on the other hand, he could clearly sense that the seawater below lacked that extreme corruption, filth, and mysterious power...

It was boundless, clean water, completely unpolluted—an inexhaustible and endless resource, with no need for worry.

Feeling an emotion he hadn’t experienced in a long time, Lazar’s entire body of implants couldn’t help but enter an overloaded state.

At this moment, it was as if he had returned to the first time he saw "Morning Star City" illuminating the dark land with its faint glimmer.

He and his parents had originally been ordinary residents of a city on the brink of destruction, living a hopeless life with no future... until that day, when the arrival of "Morning Star City" allowed him to see "light." It was the will of the "Mechanical Emperor" that gave him, for the first time, a goal in life—to pursue the world of light!

And today, after hundreds of years, his goal had finally been realized...

So the "Mechanical Emperor" hadn’t lied. The world of light truly exists! And we have finally found it!

Lazar felt that even the condensed water in his tank could no longer cool his overheated implants, so he vented the heat through his exhaust port, vibrating the air to produce a voice from the depths of his heart and soul:

"Praise the ’Mechanical Emperor’! Praise this world of light!"

And he was not alone. Almost all the residents of "Morning Star City" nearby could no longer suppress the excitement in their hearts. In various ways, their voices converged into the same words:

"Praise the ’Mechanical Emperor’! Praise this world of light!"

The sound waves spread far and wide. Even the mermaids below the floating city, who had been observing from afar, panicked, stopped their singing, and dove into the water with splashes.

Inside the central tower, Ebner listened to the unified praises and clearly felt the "anchors" stabilizing, while the "unknown" power that balanced his divinity was steadily receding.

As expected, before Sequence 1, the power of the "unknown" automatically balances divinity together with the "anchors."

No wonder Roselle’s diary mentioned that Hermes said Rhine and Vicente could maintain their humanity very well even without many "anchors"...

If possible, staying at Sequence 2 is probably the most comfortable... unfortunately, every generation of "Liu Bo" descends with a "mission." Trying to slack off only leads to a miserable end.

Additionally, fulfilling the wishes of the residents of Morning Star City has further digested Alvin’s "Miracle Invoker" potion, but the progress is still slow... heh, just like in the original work, being a "God of Wishes" isn’t the most correct acting method...

As his thoughts turned, Ebner informed Annik and the other two demigods about the dangers of this sea region and instructed them to broadcast it to all residents. After all, at the current speed of "Morning Star City," it would likely take two or three days to leave the range of the "God War Ruins."

After the three High Council members left with grave expressions to make arrangements, Ebner ignored "Alchemy Master" Klaus, who was still muttering, "It actually flew... it really flew...," and smiled at Bernadette:

"I’ll have to trouble you to watch over this city for two or three days."

He still needed to keep a close eye on Amon and the Augustus family’s movements and couldn’t leave Backlund for too long. Meanwhile, the floating city required an angel-level being to guard it, or problems might arise.

Bernadette thought for a moment, then nodded slightly. Her azure eyes swept over Ebner as she said calmly, "You still owe me an explanation."

"I’ll find time to tell you the story of ’Morning Star City,’" Ebner replied with a smile and a nod.

Next time, remember to knock... Bernadette silently added in her heart, though she didn’t say it aloud.

After all, she herself didn’t have the habit of knocking when visiting others uninvited, so she wasn’t really in a position to criticize.

...

In the nightmare of Afternoon Town, after Alvin used a "miracle" to send away Morning Star City, he left the town built against the mountain—rumored to be the gateway between myth and reality—and headed toward "Nightmare Town," which was only a day’s journey from the "City of Silver."

Of course, a day’s journey referred to the pace of a team led by the "Chief," not an angel like Alvin.

Taking out the "Staff of Stars" and outlining the corresponding scene in his mind, Ebner instantly appeared outside the ruins surrounded on three sides by a "几"-shaped black river.

The dilapidated buildings in the distance were exactly the same as when his projection had come here before to hunt the "Bone Demon Wolf." Only now, as Alvin’s figure took shape, they appeared somewhat more illusory.

Clearly, the demon wolf hidden deep within the town’s "nightmare" had detected the arrival of a "Miracle Invoker."

As expected of a former "Servant of Concealment"—even after losing its Beyonder characteristics, it still retained such keen "spiritual intuition"...

Of course, it might also be because it had once devoured high-sequence characteristics of the "Seer" pathway, granting it a kind of "intuitive premonition."

But no matter how well you hide your "nightmare," you can’t stop me from entering!

Thinking this, Ebner reached forward and pulled out the "black gemstone" bestowed by the Goddess once again from the river of history.

Since his main body wasn’t here, he could only summon a projection.

Using the black gemstone to guide the residual divine power of "Darkness" in the surrounding space, Ebner searched for only a short while before discovering the hiding place of the offspring of the "Demon Wolf King," then directly opened a door leading to that "concealed world."

—Alvin was not only a "Miracle Invoker," but also a former "Traveler."

But soon, something extremely unexpected happened— that demon wolf, the former "God of Fear" Muer, simply "died" on the spot!

Yes, at the very moment it saw Alvin appear within its nightmare, it closed its eyes and dissipated on its own, leaving not even a soul behind.

"..."

Seeing this, Ebner was rendered speechless. Although he had come to hunt it—to find "food" for the "Dream Tapir" in the Observer’s Castle—what kind of situation was this, dying immediately without even a fight?

And its soul had just dissipated like that? An angelic wraith whose essence had already changed actually vanished so quickly... this didn’t make sense!

Ebner frowned tightly and activated the "Omniscient Eye," scanning the surroundings in an attempt to "trace back" the true cause of Muer’s death.

A moment later, he closed the "channel" connected to the unknown and repeated the keyword he had discerned using the "Omniscient Eye":

"Kotar!"

"The God of Wishes" Kotar... I see, Muer had already become Kotar’s "marionette" long ago!

Placing Muer so close to the City of Silver—was it for surveillance?

(End of Chapter)