"Could you elaborate?" Roland pressed.

"There's not much to say," the Silent Disaster was clearly wary of the human king. "You know so little about the Sky-Sea World that you wouldn't understand even if I told you."

"That was true before, but it's different now. The Western Region of Graycastle is under attack by Evil Beasts, and figures from the Sky-Sea World are among them." Roland ignored its tone and carefully described the skeletal monster that had climbed onto land. "This is the first time we've observed it outside the sea."

"Tell him the information he wants to know," Valkyries also said slowly. "In any case, it's better than letting the remnants of human heritage fall into the hands of the Sky-Sea World."

"Since you say so..." Seruoshy reluctantly nodded. "Listen carefully, human. The thing you saw is called a Nest Mother, and they are the core of the Sky-Sea World's expansion. The Nest Mother itself is not strong in combat, but it can control many subordinates to fight for it—"

"Like a brain?"

"You could describe it that way, but don't interrupt me next time." Silence said impatiently, "This creature is more ancient than you can imagine. They may have existed since the beginning of this world—but the long passage of time has had little effect on them. Their shape and ability changes are very stable, until recently, in the last few months..."

After some explanation, Roland finally understood the reason for the Sky-Sea World's unusual behavior.

According to the demons, they also evolve, but unlike the usual sense of ability evolution, every change in the Sky-Sea World affects the entire race. For example, a Nest is a Nest, a Blade is a Blade, and there are no significant differences between individuals, unlike humans and demons, where each individual is relatively independent. Perhaps because of this, their evolution is very slow, and they only notice slight differences every few hundred years or so.

But the recent major changes proved that this idea was completely wrong. No one knows how many times the Sky-Sea World has evolved in the past few months. The only certainty is that their strength has increased dramatically. For example, the Blade Beasts were previously only helpers used by the Nest Mothers to hunt. As long as their location was locked, even a Mad Demon could tear them apart. But now, not only have they increased in size several times, but their strength, endurance, and reaction speed have also greatly improved. The magic-filled scythe claws can even threaten high-level demons.

Even in a head-on confrontation, a High-Level Ascendant can still easily kill a Blade Beast, but the problem is that the evolution of the Sky-Sea World is universal.

It's like when a witch awakens to Transcendent Above, other witches will also become Transcendent Above—as long as there are enough of them, quantitative changes can easily lead to qualitative changes.

The demons' original barely maintained defense line was no longer able to resist the erosion of the Sky-Sea World. Countless enemies crawled out of the sea, crashing onto the battlefield like a tide. The king had to make the decision to abandon the Black Stone Region.

This was definitely not good news for Roland.

If the demons were really no longer able to maintain their territory, then humans would take on this new pressure—the impact on the Western Region's frontier was just the beginning.

"Human, I suggest you immediately transfer the remnants of heritage," Silence said finally. "With your current strength, it is difficult to confront the army of the Sky-Sea World head-on. Valkyries is right, it is unacceptable for the Sky-Sea World to seize the remnants."

"I don't plan to give them the remnants either." Roland shrugged. "Also... don't you think this evolution time is a bit too coincidental?"

"Oh?" Valkyries crossed her legs. "Tell me about it."

"The Black Stone Region has been fighting the Sky-Sea World all along, so their judgment of the evolution time shouldn't be too far off—and three or four months ago was about the time the envoy ambushed Zero."

"You suspect that the Sky-Sea World's major evolution is related to the gods?"

"Just a guess." Roland pondered. "But there's one thing I'm very concerned about... Have you ever communicated with the Sky-Sea World?"

Valkyries' expression gradually became serious.

"I don't think so? But the participants in other Battles of Divine Will have almost all communicated with each other." Roland said slowly. Humans and demons aside, the Cloud Sky School even lived together at one point. And the destroyed underground civilization also "contacted" the Witch Union before its demise, which led to the Divine Punishment Army plan. He believed that the other party's experience should be similar, which could be seen from Nightmare's expression.

The Sky-Sea World was the only exception.

No documents about them have been left in history. If it is said that humans rarely set foot in the depths of the sea, it is very strange that even the demons have no experience in this regard.

After all, communication is a common characteristic of civilizations, even if they are mortal enemies.

Now it seems that it is like a silent person detached from the three races.

Following this line of thought, the reasons behind the evolution of the Sky-Sea World were somewhat chilling.

"What do you plan to do next?" Valkyries asked.

"Go to the Bottomless Land before everything is irreparable." Roland looked at the two of them. "I hope you can stop all offensive actions and focus your strength on dealing with the Sky-Sea World."

"That's impossible." The Silent Disaster refused directly. "Leaving aside the fact that the gods and the Divine Will conspiracy are just your side of the story, the commander of the Western Front army is already Faceless, and the Symbiotic is also controlled by him. Besides..."

"Besides what?"

Seruoshy didn't answer directly, but remained silent for a moment. "I want to talk to Valkyries alone."

"Sigh..." Roland gently exhaled. "Okay, but don't forget the time."

...

Silence, guided by Valkyries, stepped out of the door and walked along the corridor of the tube building to one side.

From this perspective, an indescribably magnificent city was presented to Seruoshy. Those block-like gray high-rise buildings rose and fell, no less than the Tower of Genesis, but there were several orders of magnitude more in number. They extended outwards along the crisscrossing roads, as if there was no end, and even the God-Made God could not accommodate so many towering creations.

This strong sense of impact made its breathing stagnate a little.

The glimpse from the window before had already shocked Seruoshy, but the scene after walking out of the room still greatly exceeded its imagination.

What was even more incredible was that there were many figures walking in the city. They were neither Demon Worshippers who had been absorbed, nor dead objects created by the domain of consciousness—this was also the biggest difference between this place and the Supreme Seat.

No wonder that human called it a "world."

"This is far enough." Valkyries stopped.

This voice also interrupted the Silent Disaster's thoughts. It forced itself to refocus its mind, sensed carefully for a while, and then opened its mouth, "There are other magic wielders in the room!"

"I know, they are witches." Valkyries said indifferently.

"..." This reaction was really somewhat beyond Seruoshy's expectations. "You already... knew?"

"While waiting for you, I had a brief chat with them—although they still don't like me." Nightmare nodded. "The witches' main purpose is to protect Roland, but in fact he doesn't need protection. Doing so is just to reassure everyone."

Even a Transcendent Above wouldn't be so relaxed in front of a Grand Duke, let alone a mortal male? Silence found that this news was almost as shocking as the Divine Will war being a conspiracy.

"What did you think? If he was so easy to deal with, I would have attacked long ago." Valkyries paused here, seemingly somewhat sighed. "Of course... that was all the initial thoughts."

"The witches didn't follow us." Seruoshy grabbed its hand. "Tell me, how can I take you out of the realm of consciousness?"

Valkyries looked at it for a while before shaking its head slightly. "Haven't you noticed? It's impossible for me to leave here anymore."

"No, since I can come in, you can definitely go out too. That's right! If I bring your body with me—"

Nightmare stretched out its hand and brushed aside the hair in front of its forehead. This action immediately made Silence's eyes widen.

"Lord Valkyries... your magic stone..."

"I am different from you, and also different from those witches," Valkyries did not correct its address this time. "If members of the clan lose their magic stones, the only result is death, but I didn't—this is probably related to my unusual way of entering the dream. Now I have become a part of this world, and I am afraid I cannot leave with you."