Chapter 1180
News traveled faster than ships. Continual improvements meant that such news could rapidly reach the upper realms, or at least specialized locations meant for high priority communications. From those it went directly to members of the council, and from them through more relaxed channels a small bit at a time.
They were too good about security at the top level. That was Everheart’s opinion. It was so annoying to have to rely on extrapolation from less secure information. Sometimes the keywords he wanted weren’t even present and he just had to read through mountains of data. Normally, he would have to do all that himself but he did have a few helpful computer things he’d managed to scrape together and one of them informed him he might want to take a look.
Everheart was a very busy man, especially at the current moment. The stellar heist had gone off without a hitch and nobody would ever hear otherwise. But maybe he had a few concerns in mind. Either way, news adjacent to the inter-realm planetary heist was still interesting.
He took a few moments to interpret the data. Based on the resources that were being called upon, he thought he figured it out. He frowned. What a shame. It seemed a bit silly to be looking for antidotes for a dead man, but they were sure doing it desperately. Unless… he actually wasn’t dead? Shelach usually wasn’t so careless. Then again, he also probably didn’t usually have to deal with such a unique situation.
Though Everheart wasn’t actually certain of that. After all, from what he could tell the man wasn’t a fan of unorthodox paths. It was entirely possible he had eradicated previous versions of post-Life Transformation advancement in the lower realms. Everheart had no evidence for that because of the history erasure, but he didn’t think it was out of character. Either way Everheart wanted to have nothing to do with him because of certain other issues.
Maybe he’d be easier to kill once all the other Domination cultivators were dead. Everheart could hope.
He thought for a moment. The Scarlet Alliance didn’t tend to act where they had no hope. If Anton wasn’t dead… Everheart had no chance of doing anything in time to matter. But a message might help. He didn’t have time to make it not suspicious.
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“As you can see,” Uzun said. “We have the message inscribed in plain text. An unsigned message,” Uzun emphasized. “No authorized equipment should be capable of doing that. It’s obviously not impossible, though.”