Of course, Shen Sui felt there was no need to deliberately find out who in the real world was connected to the Pseudo-Dusk Council members.

Just by looking at the name "Saint Yimiti," finding out the actual owner of this ship must be accurate.

"What bad luck," Shen Sui said to Xinyuan Tanchun on the other end of the phone, "Am I the only one left who hasn't boarded the Saint Yimiti?"

Xinyuan Tanchun replied, "Not exactly, it seems there are also participants from Japan, but I've heard he's proactively contacted the organizers and needs to handle family business before boarding."

The Pacific Cruise Championship isn't widely known globally, only circulated among a small crowd, much like that island that was a hot topic in the news earlier. Before it was exposed, the general public wasn't even qualified to know of its existence.

"Ah, so they're all rich kids, aren't they?"

Shen Sui said casually.

"By the way, don't forget to read the document I sent you," Xinyuan Tanchun reminded Shen Sui.

As previously mentioned, not just anyone can participate in the Pacific Cruise Championship; the contestants are either wealthy or noble.

The reason Shen Sui was able to participate, aside from his personal assets meeting the championship's requirements, was mainly due to Zhang Fang's endorsement.

Therefore, Shen Sui needed to make some identity-related adjustments before the competition to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Shen Sui is already a well-known Life Card Master. How he jumped from a Fifth-Rank Life Card Master to a Seventh-Rank, and how he suddenly leaped to an Eighth-Rank, all needed to be publicly announced on the official website and through various media outlets.

Even though everyone knew Shen Sui had already achieved the strength of an Eighth-Rank, the required procedures still had to be followed, this is procedural justice.

"Understood, understood," Shen Sui replied, then opened the Dueling Device to browse through it.

The Saint Yimiti was postponed again, which surely meant Harms needed some preparations, requiring cooperation from the real-world Descent Association.

Since that's the case, there should definitely be some clues on Alice's side.

Soon, Shen Sui found relevant clues in an inconspicuous record.

Harms was personally overseeing the preparations for his inauguration ceremony.

The time of Harms's High Priest inauguration ceremony perfectly aligned with the latest docking time of the Saint Yimiti.

As expected.

Shen Sui squinted his eyes.

Alice needed to get well-prepared.

On the other side, Alice was also very clever and had some guesses about Harms's plan. Therefore, after returning to the airborne Roland Magic Academy, Alice began her active preparations.

On one hand, she was quickly preparing a large number of puppets and tools with the help of Vivian. On the other hand, she was quickly moving towards Roland.

She needed to return to Roland City as fast as possible.

Although she encountered many things on the way, Alice hadn't forgotten that her return this time was due to the recall by the Thunder Church.

The sudden demise of the Dragon God Sect and the internal strife and defection within the Dragon Race in the Dragon Valley undoubtedly struck a massive blow to the Thunder Church.

While losing a group of high-end forces, internal factions within the Thunder Church began fierce infighting to seize the position left vacant after the Dragon God Sect's demise.

Amidst all the factions being entangled with each other, Alice's importance as the Pope became evident.

Originally, Alice was quite troubled by this and planned to discuss countermeasures with her good friend, Princess Catherine, when she returned to Roland City. However, Harms's plan provided Alice with a brand-new idea.

Since ancient times, the best way to divert internal contradictions has been to start an external war.

Since the War God Church was about to face internal strife, as the mortal enemy of the War God Church, the Thunder Church naturally should step in and make a scene.

Since they were already planning to cause a big explosion with the Vivian-lookalike puppet, why not let more people become the targets of the explosion?

Alice's idea was straightforward: guide the Thunder Church into launching a war against the War God Church and let the church factions not under her control become the sacrifices of war through the lure of benefits.

If the plan succeeded, the Thunder Church, which would have started a Divine War, would see its attention decrease domestically, thereby gaining more time for the development of the Twilight Legion.

Meanwhile, the casualties due to the war would surely lead to many positions becoming vacant within the Thunder Church. At that time, the elite members of the Twilight Legion, disguised as Thunder Knights and lurking in Elm City, could occupy these critical positions under Alice's arrangement.

However, a war always has to have a pretext and reasons, right?

Alice considered herself incapable of brainwashing, without evidence she couldn't make everyone believe her words.

Just as Alice was pondering what reason to use to start the Divine War, and limit this Divine War to the top-level forces of the two churches, Harms provided Alice with a perfect excuse.

Harms seemed very confident in his plan.

He was not content with just eliminating a War God.

In his eyes, the Twilight Saintess was an invincible existence.

And the Twilight Saintess, strengthened after sacrificing an entire world of living beings, would surpass her past self.

This kind of Twilight Saintess could undoubtedly confront multiple gods.