Emmanuel felt a strange awkwardness whenever he looked at Yeriel these days. He didn’t know exactly what it was, but he sensed that something big was going to occur soon. Otherwise, there was no reason that the legend, Nahla, Teacher, Ho Lactea, and Afrilith would all be so busy at the same time. It was the same for him and Yeriel. Just today, Yeriel went outside to complete a relatively simple task and came back to Shalyh late in the afternoon.

Since she needed to raise her tiers, she would have to go out almost immediately again, but she didn’t rest at all. Usually, she would’ve taken some time to prepare herself for another outing, but she didn’t do that anymore. She moved quickly as soon as she returned. Instead of staying inside her workshop, she was always off somewhere that Emmanuel rarely even caught a glimpse of her.

After asking around, Emmanuel found out that Yeriel had been frequenting the buhguhbu’s forge and visiting Seven Stars’ construction site. And Yeriel returned to Eustitia’s headquarters way past midnight. After waiting for her all this time, Emmanuel saw her stagger back into her workshop.

‘Should I just let her sleep?’ Emmanuel thought, but then noticed the light in her room did not go off. Emmanuel opened the door cautiously and saw Yeriel’s back as she sat at her desk. She had swept up her front bangs and was propping her head up with a hand on her face while glaring piercingly at the blueprint spread over her desk.

“Why…does it keep having bugs…I did everything it wanted me to do…hm….? You fucking...