"The call vanished," Kyle told Sebastian.
"I can tell," Sebastian answered. "My Elemental no longer has the desire to go west. Are you thinking the same thing as me?"
"The Barrier Formation Array is gone?" Kyle asked.
Sebastian nodded. "Yep, and I think all the other ones are gone as well. I think we were right."
"The Ascension Pools," Kyle said.
Sebastian nodded again. "They probably tried to deal with them without destroying them or abandoning their position. I think they overloaded the Formation Arrays."
"Well, since we seem to be on the right course, we should wait. I don't think there will be more than ten years until the next Ascender appears. No matter how things go..."
"I don't think the Formation Arrays will return. If they die, nobody will rebuild them. If they succeed, they won't care about them. After all, in their mind, freedom is close."
"Most likely, yes," Sebastian confirmed. "So, we're going to wait for another ten years?"
"Yep, just to be safe."
The two of them started waiting, and out of boredom, Kyle looked at the Elemental Dimension.
The Elemental Energies were slowly being refilled by the Supreme World. It would still take about a thousand years for them to return to a normal level, but Kyle could already see the first new Elementals.
Before they knew it, ten years had passed.
The Formation Arrays did not return.
"If we're right, this basically confirms it," Kyle said. "The Overseer is still alive, and they've probably comprehended the Law of Minor Death. If they were dead, one of us would have already received the offer to become Overseer."
"I think we're in the clear. As long as we don't leave my Elemental, nothing crazy will happen. You said that it's not easy to get past the World Wall with False Death, right?"
Sebastian nodded. "The Parasites get their Death from one of the Harbingers. It's not just raw Death but Death in the form of something resembling a Formation Array. The Parasites get some Death for their own uses, but they always have to keep the specialized Death for their mission."
"If the Parasites simply use regular Death, the World Wall will notice and attack them. There are ways to inject Death into the World Wall without the world noticing, but it's apparently insanely complex. The Harbingers deliver the specialized Death, but not even they can produce it. They get their specialized Death from the Lords and simply distribute it to the Parasites."
"If getting past the World Wall is already so difficult with real Death, how hard is it with False Death? You would probably need a Lord to come personally, and they would probably need a long time to find a way."
"If you make just a slight misstep, the world will immediately end you. If everything works out, you might not even need to fight the Overseer."
"Kinda crazy," Kyle said. "I thought I was the one that's supposed to kill the Overseer, but from what I can see, Swamp Dragon's schemes have a higher chance of succeeding. I wonder, if Manny had thrown caution to the wind and ignored all costs, could he have done that?"
"Definitely," Sebastian answered. "I think, if Manny had gone all out, the Overseer would already be dead."
"But then, why didn't he?" Kyle asked with furrowed brows. "I thought he wanted to free Ayuvar."


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