Night fell. Bright lights lit up in the Order of the Deep as they stopped receiving believers.
"Lady Saintess."
"No need for formalities."
Responding to the priest standing guard at the door, Cartethyia stepped into the Order and turned her head to ask:
"Laureate… um, did the Laureate come to the Order of the Deep today?"
"Yes. The Laureate handed the holy object left by the Sentinel, the Civilization Casket, over to the Order and into Lady Phoebe's hands."
"Phoebe?"
Cartethyia pinched her chin and frowned slightly.
Phoebe… isn't she a bit too young? Can she shoulder the position of Main Seat?
Forget it. Since it was the Laureate's decision, there should be no problem.
"Do you know where Phoebe is right now?"
"In the Holy Dining Hall."
Receiving the answer, Cartethyia turned her steps, rounded a few corners, and entered the Order's Holy Dining Hall with familiar ease.
She just happened to have not eaten dinner yet. She could conveniently eat some Green Laurel Salad.
It was currently the dinner time of the Order of the Deep. The spacious Holy Dining Hall was neatly filled with rows of priests. In front of each person was a plate of food covered by an arched warming lid.
Twitching her nose and sniffing the scent in the air, Cartethyia frowned slightly again.
"Strange, there's a very strange smell? Could it be because I stayed in the medical pod for too long?"
Seeing Cartethyia enter, the priests all stood up and saluted in greeting:
"Lady Saintess!"
Cartethyia nodded politely and responded with a smile:
"Everyone need not be so formal. Please enjoy your dinner."
After the words fell, in the huge Holy Dining Hall, surprisingly no one began to eat.
Some people twisted their heads in conflict and cast their gazes toward the very front of the Holy Dining Hall.
There was the seat of the Order's future Main Seat, Lady Phoebe.
"Cough cough—"
Phoebe stood up from her seat and lightly coughed once:
"Since Lady Saintess has told everyone to enjoy dinner, then everyone may begin the meal."
At those words, everyone finally responded in unison. The smile on Cartethyia's face gradually disappeared. And after seeing everyone lift the warming lids to reveal the delicacies inside, her eyes widened even more.
Today's Order dinner was actually Pizza Tropicale!
Heresy! Heresy!
How could fruit be added into pizza? How could such food be served on the table?
Seeing Cartethyia's expression suddenly sink, Phoebe's heart tightened. She left her seat and quickly stepped forward.
"Lady Saintess, please don't mind. Now that the Sentinel has martyred Itself, everyone in the Order only knows the Main Seat candidate. They don't know… the… Saint… ess."
Realizing she had said the wrong thing, Phoebe hurriedly covered her mouth. Then she heard a strangely toned inquiry by her ear:
"Phoe~be~ This pizza… is it available every day? Or only tonight?"
"In reply to Lady Saintess, only tonight."
"That's good then."
Receiving a satisfactory answer, Cartethyia's expression relaxed a little. She followed Phoebe to the table. The latter thoughtfully ordered someone to send over a plate of Green Laurel Salad.
"The Seat election is imminent. Does Lady Saintess intend to participate?"
"In private, just call me Cartethyia."
As long as there was still delicious food, the world was not too bad. Cartethyia forked up the salad on her plate and answered:
"My identity makes it inconvenient to participate in this kind of election, so…"
The salad entered her mouth. Cartethyia's movements stiffened—why was this salad sweet?
Just how much sugar had been added? There was not a single bit of the original sourness left. It was so hard to eat, cloyingly sweet.
It was simply a desecration of fine food!
"Um…" Phoebe uneasily pinched her hands together. "I had the Holy Dining Hall add a little sugar. I wonder if it suits Miss Cartethyia's taste?"
"..." Cartethyia turned her head expressionlessly. Her majestic eyes fixed on Phoebe:
"What did you just call me?"
"Miss Cartethyia…"
"When working, you must address people by their titles."
Spatial authority activated. A teleportation door opened beside them. Cartethyia put down her knife and fork:
"I heard that you often accompanied the Laureate fishing before, right? Perfectly, Gehinnom has been a bit stuffy lately. Come accompany me to ride the dragon and relax-relax."
The night was still long. No one knew what the Lady Saintess did to the future Main Seat that night. They only knew that starting the next day, the Order banned the consumption of Pizza Tropicale.
Green Laurel Salad was also banned from having sugar added.
...
[Daily Quest: "Clear Tacet Discords" (Challenge) completed.]
A new day. A red dot lit up in the mailbox.
[Reward: Wuthering Waves Award Thanks · Gift of Gratitude to Rover.]
[We are extremely honored to announce that Wuthering Waves has been fortunate enough to receive the TGA · Players' Voice Award. To express our thanks, we present the following gift of gratitude.]
[Attachment: 1600 Astrite.]
"Last time it was nominated for Best Mobile Game of the Year, and in the end it didn't even win? Old Kuro really is something."
After complaining once, Noah happily collected the 1600 Astrite:
"Although I don't understand what the Players' Voice Award represents, they actually gave a full ten-pull all at once instead of spreading it over several days of login claims. Old Kuro is divine!"
"Both pulling and divine, Old Kuro stretched!"
Closing the mailbox, Noah opened his backpack again and stared at his abundant pull resources, feeling a bit itchy:
"It's been so long since I pulled. Perfect, I have 60 permanent spheres. Pull them!"
Opening [Convene], selecting the permanent banner, still the five permanent characters of choice. Without hesitation, he directly selected Encore and started pulling!
20 pulls, nothing.
40 pulls, nothing.
60 pulls, gold. Rover (Aero two chains).
The limited banner can off-pity permanent characters and Rover. The permanent banner can also off-pity Rover.
"Laureate, I've kept you waiting!"
Raising her head, Cartethyia quickly ran over with a smile on her face:
"Sorry, I was delayed for a while at the Order. The owner you chose for the Civilization Casket is very good."
At least she is very obedient. She muttered to herself.
"Don't look at how young Phoebe is right now. Her growth is very fast. I remember when I first arrived in Ragunna, she was still just a pure little priestess."
While exchanging words, Noah switched to Shorekeeper:
"Let's go. Time to go to the Black Shores to receive treatment."
...
Black Shores.
"Big Bei-jie, you-you-you, you accepted all the high-risk missions of the Black Shores in one go!"
Waves repeatedly slapped against the black stones of the cliff wall. Aalto's face was written full of anxiety:
"Isn't this a bit too difficult? How about taking it easy and doing them one by one?"
"No need."
Galbrena rubbed the Blake Bloom in her hand, dropped those words, clipped the Black Shores standard terminal to her waist, then immediately leapt and jumped down the cliff wall.
"Hey hey!" Aalto cried out in alarm. "There's sea all around. Do you want me to prepare a boat for you?"
That falling figure suddenly spread its wings and flew far away without giving any response. Instead, Noah's voice came from behind Aalto:
"You don't need to worry about her. As for the boat you prepared, does it even work properly?"
"Ya, Big Brother Noah!"
Seeing the arrival, Aalto first showed joy, then spoke teasingly:
"How can you say that? The big flower boat Echo I prepared for you last time also safely delivered you to Ragunna, didn't it?"
At those words, Noah thought for a moment and then nodded affirmatively.
He couldn't complain about that one. Driving the hundred-ton king was indeed satisfying!
"Let's not talk about that for now. You looking for me must mean you have something, right?" Aalto patted his chest and spoke confidently:
"Speak. No matter what it is, I will definitely get it done for you!"
"Don't speak too fully first."
Noah first gave a preventive shot, then began organizing his words.
After all the main quests of Rinascita ended, the next main quest to appear was Chisa's main story.
In the original plot, Rover elbow-won the great decisive battle of Rinascita, used Separation Authority to separate the Threnodian gem, and had Galbrena bring it back to the Black Shores.
The technical consultants of the Black Shores conducted in-depth analysis of the Threnodian gem through the Tethys System and obtained a large number of unknown frequency samples.
One segment of frequency even directly opened a spatial fissure leading to Honami City inside the main base of the Black Shores. Chisa's main story unfolded from there.
"So what you're saying is..."
Aalto summarized the information Noah had given with a toothache expression:
"You hope the Black Shores will find a segment of unknown frequency out of thin air, and then find a fissure leading to a mysterious Sonoro Sphere space?"
"No, bro. Not to mention how the Black Shores is supposed to find the unknown frequency you mentioned, and not to mention that the Tethys System has long since turned into the Slaughterblade of Carnage."
"Just the Black Shores itself already changed bases after the Slaughterblade of Carnage."
This was also the problem that gave Noah a headache.
The prerequisite for opening Chisa's main story was obtaining the Threnodian gem.
But the Threnodian gem had long since exploded.
Normally speaking, if that Threnodian gem had not exploded, Leviathan would have already been locked into the Black Shores… wait!
Thankfully the Threnodian gem exploded. Otherwise if Leviathan erupted on this side, what would explode would be the Black Shores and Noah himself.
Looking at it this way, misfortune and fortune were interdependent.
"I still have one clue on my side."
Noah had a flash of inspiration and raised one finger:
"Your Black Shores previously had a Bloom Bearer named Sumika. Maybe you can help me investigate all her information, then follow the vine to find the method of entering Honami City."
"This…"
Aalto took out his terminal and muttered under his breath:
"Database… personnel list… search Sumika…"
No such person found.
Seeing those four words, Aalto scratched his head in embarrassment:
"Um… Big Brother, after you destroyed the Slaughterblade of Carnage, our databases are all newly built. The identity information of Bloom Bearers from even earlier is mostly gone."
It's over. The Threnodian gem was not obtained, and the key plot character Sumika also cannot be found. Chisa's main story is directly deadlocked.
Noah was dumbfounded and pointed at himself:
"Is it my fault?"