When Ria saw her father, she had felt a surge of hope. Now that she had become a Martial Sage, she understood just how absurdly powerful her father truly was.
He was beyond reach.
His power wasn't rooted in materia like hers. It went beyond materia. She could faintly sense that it was absolute. It existed in a plane of reality that she couldn't even fathom. Like he belonged to a higher dimension of life, merely descending into a lower one that couldn't control his power.
'If anything can save my friends, it is this power.'
She dragged him through the Stellarch, taking him to the medical wing of the ship urgently and hurriedly. If not for her father using mild misdirection and hypnosis to ensure that none of them saw him, her identity would have been revealed to the crew and staff of the ship then and there.
She took him to the units containing her friends, turning towards him with a pleading expression.
"Papa. Save them. I know you can."
