Gaining Riku's support was a force for Su'er, enough to calm his heart. In fact, in this world, there are only a few Imanity that Su'er cares about: Riku, Couronne, Kleins, Lenny...
Even if they do nothing, just standing on Su'er's side is enough to make him resolute. To be honest, if Riku had always been opposed and stood on his opposite side, although Su'er's final decision would not change, he would not feel too good inside.
In that extreme situation, the most likely thing to happen might be Su'er taking the people who were willing to support him and leaving the settlement... Perhaps Riku had already sensed this possibility, which is why he didn't persist?
At least for a long time afterward, Su'er always felt that when Riku was alone with him, he always maintained a state of wanting to speak but holding back, and holding back but wanting to speak. So he simply acted as if he hadn't noticed.
The implementation of the plan is not something that can be started on a whim; it requires prior preparation and the right timing. In the nearly one year since returning to the settlement, Su'er has been working hard to integrate into the settlement. After all, he had been away from the settlement for too long. Fortunately, with the cooperation of people who were familiar with him, this process was not too difficult.
The now-grown clan once again recalled the wise and resourceful youth from four years ago, and many people whose impressions of Su'er only existed in others' descriptions also gained a clear understanding.
While pushing forward with the preparations in an orderly manner, he also patiently waited for the right opportunity to appear. Jibril returned to the Flügel's country not long after that day's conversation between Su'er and Riku, and has not appeared since.
She had been so interested in what Su'er was going to do before, even enduring the weakness of her shrunken body to stay by his side with a portable recovery device. However, now it's as if she has forgotten about the existence of Su'er and Think, even throwing the precious collection she had been longing for to the back of her mind. This completely abnormal behavior for that pink-haired Flügel became apparent when Su'er suddenly realized at some point that Jibril had not appeared for a long time. But neither he nor Think had much of a reaction; they just seemingly calmly accepted this fact.
'Maybe she was locked in the magical treatment room by her sister to recover her body and can't get out, or maybe she wants to recover to her strongest form a bit faster' - Su'er had joked about this guess privately, but neither he nor Think believed that the reason was just that.
Or rather, they had long anticipated Jibril's departure.
The crimson sky has never had any other color except when it is covered by dark clouds and black dust. The perpetual, endless cold winds also remain unchanged; they are only cold... and colder.
Standing alone in this passage where the settlement intersects with the outside world, the highest point also gives it a unique open view. Two people should be on guard here at all times. The brass telescope with a huge lens that Su'er is holding with one hand is an important tool for them to observe the movements of the powerful races. However, at this important place, only Su'er is here.
He does not need this clumsy tool, nor does he need to use the equipment that Think made for him. Su'er can see the colored light constantly exploding at the end of his sight with just his naked eyes. Unlike fireworks that are just for looks, the moment those seemingly beautiful things are born means the death of life.
The intensity of the war has escalated again, and the reason for the escalation is even related to Su'er—at least when Think recited the information from the Elf with a strange expression, Su'er was also so surprised that he could not believe reality.
The Phantasma and the Dwarf have formed an alliance. Together with the Gigant, who already have a good relationship with the Dwarf, this powerful alliance led by the Dwarf even launched an ambush directly against the Flügel, causing several sisters of the Flügel, who have rarely suffered losses since their birth, to be lost on the spot. The reason was the news from the Phantasma—a Flügel and an Elf had teamed up to hunt Phantasma and collect their cores. The reason for the collection was unknown.
The ambush on the Flügel was a response by this alliance to the fact that most Phantasma had sought refuge with them.
The first moment he heard this news, Su'er thought of the streaks of light that soared into the sky when the Water of Purification, Devil, died. Did they send the message out?
It was clear that Su'er's existence was ignored. Even though Jibril had said things at the time that He could not understand, it was regarded as a joke. For that Phantasma, Su'er was always just an insignificant bug, and the Flügel and the Elf were just playing a boring game. There must be a deeply hidden secret in this that he cannot know.
After repeatedly confirming that Imanity did not appear in the intelligence reports of the various races, Su'er breathed a long sigh of relief and felt a bit like crying and laughing with Think.
The ones who were undoubtedly scared by the power shown by the Dwarf, Gigant, and Phantasma, these three forces that had twisted together, were the Elf, or more directly, the God of the Forest, Kainath. This Old Deus, fearing that he would be the next one to fall and withdraw from the Suniaster game, also increased his whipping of the entire Elf in panic. The excessive pressure also provided many opportunities for Think to secretly gather her people.
Putting the startled Kainath aside for now, the Dragon, who are in a state of constant war with the Gigant, were also taken aback. In order to avoid becoming the next target of the Dwarf alliance's heavy punch, and also to counter the large-scale creation of air fleets by the Dwarf, a new friend was welcomed between the Elf and the Fairy, this pair of eternal allies—the Dragon.
As for the Flügel who had lost their sisters, they would naturally not swallow this bitter fruit. Even for these crazy lives that live for war and take pleasure in death, dying in such a fierce war is a kind of glory. But dead is dead. They can no longer be seen or talked to.
Therefore, the Flügel frantically retaliated against the Dwarf's cities on the surface. However, the Dwarf, who had already anticipated this, had evacuated all their clansmen from the city in advance. In the end, the Flügel could only violently turn the Dwarf's city into ashes before choosing to temporarily retreat.
Without the God of War's intention to take action, the Flügel naturally could not directly pursue them to the depths of the underground. And they themselves also pleaded with the God of War to leave this opportunity for revenge to them.
For a time, the entire continent felt like it was in a chaotic war, but it also maintained a certain hidden restraint.