Seero stepped into the Primary Home Base. All of her subordinates stood there, waiting for her. Even Melion has ceased working on their latest designs to join the group. Ateia nodded at her.

“What now, Seero?”

Seero analyzed the situation. The Herald of the New Dawn, who was apparently an Aedes who seemed at least more powerful than Ateia, presented a serious threat, one who could apparently track them down. Though, if he was an Aesdes, he’d have access to the same information gathering capabilities Colleone had taught to Ateia. Still, Seero didn’t have countermeasures to that capability and likewise couldn’t estimate the Herald of the New Dawn’s combat potential at this time.

But since he could find them starting the operation against his followers and continuing to train in dungeons both carried equal risk. And there was the possibility of the Aesdes intervening now. So, Seero calculated that it would be best to take the initiative.

She was about to respond to this effect a wave of mana surged from her core, disrupting her thoughts. Ateia cried out and held her head. Taog turned to her.

“Ateia! What’s wrong?!”

Ateia’s eyes went wide and she started trembling.

“I don’t know…but I feel that something terrible has happened.”

As for Seero, she detected an intrusion of mana, similar to that used when the Heralds of the New Dawn attempted to sacrifice Ateia. She attempted to quarantine the mana, counteracting it with different types of mana. It appeared a judicious application of Holy Mana managed to eliminate it.

At that moment, Seero received a message from the Aesdes.

Dungeon Master and Hero NSLICE-00P, this Shialnor, The Lady of Mana and the Boundary, She Who Tends the Gardens of the World, the creator and manager of the dungeons. We, the Aesdes, have lost control of the Dungeon and Personal System Cores, and the Blessed Land is under attack.

I do not know what is happening to the dungeons or to the boons we granted to the masses as a result, but I know we cannot provide any more until this situation is dealt with. I can only imagine what will occur on Aelea in the meantime, and we may not be able to assist.

However, you are primarily connected to your own Material Plane, and so are the only dungeon core that I know to be online. You have had the deepest connection to the System of anyone outside the Aesdes, and you have Ateia, an Aesdes who still walks the surface of Aelea and who will be the least affected by what’s going on in the Blessed Land.

I’m sending you everything I have on the two systems. I believe you’ll be able to use it to keep your new world up and running, hopefully your subordinate cores, and maybe even recreate some of the boons for your own subordinates. I am told that Anuale took the power of Elséró from your enemy, though at great cost to himself, so you should be on even footing at the very least.

I know I have no right to ask anything of anyone, and nothing more to offer, but still I must beg you. Please, protect Aelea while we cannot.