Daneel's words were followed by deathly silence with the backdrop of the celebration below, which all seemed muted, as if the news that he had just uttered had sucked out the life of everything around them.
Coincidentally, all of the sovereigns were reminded of the same thing: the unbeatable army of the Church that had managed to get over the restriction placed on them by Mother Angaria just a few moments too late after the destruction of Axelor to lay siege to the continent they had been seeking to vanquish for decades.
With thoughts of those legions of Peak Heroes, the future seemed grim and bleak, but one by one, each sovereign looked up at the one in front of them, and seeing his face, they suddenly regained all of the hope they had almost completely lost.
Just like his tone, his eyes were filled with the flames of fury, and for a second, they seemed so strong as to be able to burn the Church all by themselves.
