None of the Divinity Realm experts protecting the academy noticed when that Spirit appeared. The Spirit passed through the formations of the academy, going straight to Ximao’s office. It was as if it were invisible, even though it wasn’t.
Suddenly, Ximao looked at the entrance of his office, and to his surprise, the spirit was already there, floating in front of him. He quickly got up and was about to say sothing when he noticed. "Balance Adjudicator..."
The Spirit’s shape changed, assuming the form of an aluring woman wearing a red dress. Why a woman? Who knows? Spirits don’t really have genders, but that’s what this one selected. "You must be the Observer called Ximao, am I correct?"
Ximao ca to the front and bowed respectfully to the woman. "That would be indeed, Senior Caladara. I received the ssage that you would co to check the Judgental Eye after the warning was sent last ti."
"Yes, I already took a look at it," Caladara confird. "You know, this is weird. The Judgental Eye shouldn’t be easily broken like that. It is almost as if soone purposely broke it, soone who knew how it worked at least a little bit. Now then, would you know sothing about that, Ximao?"
Ximao bitterly smiled, knowing that lying would be worse. "Yes, senior. It was I who broke the Judgental Eye."
The atmosphere got tense, and Ximao felt like his own soul was about to be pulled out of his body. He had to give his all just to stay conscious. Of course, he also knew the truth. If Caladara wanted to pull his soul for real, he would have no chance of fighting back like he is doing now.
"You did, uh? You see, it took over fifty years to co down here, and I wasn’t told anything about you breaking the Judgental Eye." Caladara’s mood was terrible. "That’s sothing that should have been reported by you. Now, give a very good reason not to extinguish your existence here and now and get soone else to take your place."
Ximao sweated nonstop, but he tried to keep his calm, speaking. "As per the rules, those who have the Judgental Eye only know about the five levels of Golden Radiance. However, we both know there is a level six, which looks exactly the sa as the level five for those who don’t know about it."
"Stop beating around the bush. So what if there is a level six? Did one appear? Then the eye’s Judgent Protocol must have killed him already," Caladara said.
"It did not. After all, I broke the eye before it executed the Judgent Protocol," Ximao explained. "Well, it eventually executed the Protocol Once, but the Golden Echo was flawed, and ended up being destroyed due ot its limitations. As for why I stopped it, it was because there wasn’t just one Level Six, but four of them."
"What?!" Caladara was taken aback. The shock she felt when hearing Ximao’s words was so big that she even stopped pressing him with her power. "Impossible! Do you have any idea how unlikely it is for a Level Six to appear? Even if you put together all Rank A Universes, you wouldn’t find more than one or two every million years! Are you telling four of them appeared at once, in the sa place, found by the sa Judgental Eye? Ridiculous!"
"I believe so, too!" Ximao quickly added. Things finally began to go his way. He had a long ti to prepare for it, after all. "That’s why I had to stop it. Sothing must be wrong with this Judgental Eye, so I couldn’t let it kill the targets. However, even though I have so idea of how the Eye works, I don’t have the knowledge to fix it, let alone know whether it is truly working as it should. Of course, the auto repair kicked off, but I kept preventing it from working properly, waiting for you to arrive, Senior Caladara."
Following that, Ximao opened his CD and replayed the day when the twins’ group joined the Divine Military Exchange program. "Here, take a look, senior."
Caladara watched the record play, and sure enough, she easily recognized the Level Six Golden Radiance asurent. It wasn’t the Celestial Ascendance Radiance, but a sixth level called Balance Breaker.
"Four Balance Breakers..." Caladara watched the video ti and ti again. Finally, she had to admit, Ximao wasn’t wrong. It truly considered Rean, Roan, Kentucky, and Celis to be all at Level Six. "Alright, I understand why you had to stop it. If you didn’t, it might have started to pass the wrong Judgent to all the others who ca next. However, how co this was not reported in your ssage? How co I’m only hearing about this now?"
Ximao scratched the back of his head, finding it hard to speak. "It’s just... what if the Judgental Eye wasn’t wrong? If I reported it had a problem while it actually didn’t... I was afraid of the punishnt, especially since no one would be sent down to fix it in that case."
Caladara’s expression got worse again. "I should have just killed you when I arrived... but I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the sa thing as you. You are lucky I’m a reasonable Balance Adjudicator. In any case, I need to check them myself. Where are these four brats the eye found?"
"As I didn’t know how many years it would take for you to arrive, I let them roam free. But don’t worry, I will contact them and order them to go back to the academy imdiately. They should all be here by the end of the day at most," Ximao said.
"Good!" Caladara didn’t mind waiting that long. "anwhile, I’ll fix the Judgental Eye. Don’t worry, I won’t let it activate the Judgental Protocol on those four since I’m already here. Go ahead and call them all."
Without waiting, Caladara disappeared right in front of Ximao, and he couldn’t even tell how she did it. ’That was scary... But I already bet on this, so no turning back now.’
And so, he took out his CD and found the twins’ group’s numbers. It was ti to call them over.
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