BANG!

This was when large movements started to catch the attention of those in the surroundings. Due to Madeleine's movement, the encirclement of Middle Lily City collapsed, leaving the west, north and south of the city completely free of scouts after they had all converged on the east.

At the same time, others realized that teleportation to Middle Lily City wasn't the only teleportation that was restricted, every Golden Crow City seemed to be cut off as well!

Initially, Aritzia had been prepared for something like this to happen. After all, one of the hardest things to do was keep a secret, especially when so many pieces were involved. However, she took advantage of the fact the movement of information was strictly controlled by the SNN. Even if a few stragglers pieced some information together, just how long did it used to take for information to spread organically through the martial world before the Sapientia came along?