Fast Enough?
Now that the Trial was over, didn't that mean that the System Cities would begin to appear now? Could it be that this Judgment only existed for the sake of not allowing more competing cities to join? Ones that could encroach on the monopoly of the System Cities?
His grandfather had only told him a small bit about System Cities, but from his understanding, they were like Nexuses, but far easier to access for the common adventurer. In fact, the vast majority of the population would end up relying on them to survive.
These System Cities should have existences from outside of Earth's territory, many of whom were from worlds that had already succeeded in their Summoning, or had failed and integrated with other worlds.
Sylas didn't like the implication the slightest bit.