Adam coughed awkwardly before saying,"You know what I mean."

He looked toward Noah’s table again."He abandoned his friends because of a girl. Doesn’t that make you at least a little angry?"

Asher calmly took another bite of his food before replying,"Why would it?,It’s his life, his choice. He can decide who he wants to stay with."

He paused for a moment before adding in the same calm tone,

"And it’s not even that big of a deal."

After hearing Asher’s answer, Adam didn’t know what to say.

He simply shook his head and continued eating.

Asher also didn’t say anything else.

The three of them quietly finished their dinner in silence.

A few minutes later, they returned their trays and left the cafeteria together.

After stepping outside, they went their separate ways and headed back to their own rooms.

Meanwhile, inside the Church Facility.

Lucifer, Asher’s vessel, also returned to the room that had been assigned to him.

He opened the door, entered the room, and quietly closed it behind him.

After looking around the small room, he let out a helpless sigh.

The food in the facility was mediocre at best.

Compared to the comfortable room he had back in Westvale, this place felt like a prison.

He muttered a few complaints to himself before lying down on the bed.

A few moments later, he closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.

Meanwhile...

While flying through the sky, Asher’s vessel suddenly stopped.

He looked down at the sea below.

The calm ocean suddenly became restless.

The next moment—

Boom!

A massive pillar of seawater shot into the sky.

From within it, a gigantic aquatic beast emerged.

Its body was over a hundred meters long and covered in dark blue scales.

Sharp fins ran across its back, and its golden eyes were fixed on Asher’s vessel.

The aura spreading from its body was clearly at the Grandmaster rank.

Asher’s vessel looked at the Grandmaster-rank aquatic beast for a moment.

Then he opened his mini spatial domain.

A spatial crack appeared beside him.

One after another, the other fourteen vessels came out.

After the last vessel stepped out, the spatial crack closed.

The next moment, all fifteen vessels gathered mana around themselves.

The mana completely covered their bodies.

A few moments later, all of them transformed into giant birds made entirely of condensed mana.

Without saying a single word, they charged toward the aquatic beast.

The beast also roared.

Thousands of water spears formed around it before shooting toward the fifteen vessels.

The vessels immediately scattered in different directions while maintaining their bird forms.

As they flew around the beast at high speed, they continuously condensed black mana spheres mixed with spatial mana and black fog.

One after another, the mana spheres shot toward the aquatic beast.

The beast retaliated by summoning giant waves and water blades, destroying many of the mana spheres before they could reach it.

However, many still struck its massive body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Violent explosions echoed across the sea.

Wherever the mana spheres exploded, the surrounding space distorted while the black fog spread rapidly from the point of impact, covering larger and larger parts of the battlefield.

Meanwhile, the fifteen vessels continued attacking the beast from every direction without giving it a single moment to retaliate properly.

The aquatic beast continued attacking.

Gigantic waves rose one after another, crashing toward the fifteen vessels.

Countless water spears and water blades filled the sky.

However, Asher’s vessels easily dodged every attack while flying at high speed.

At the same time, they continued bombarding the beast with black mana spheres mixed with spatial mana and black fog, trying to injure its massive body.

The battle continued for some time.

Then, without any warning, the aquatic beast suddenly stopped attacking.

It turned around and retreated into the depths of the sea.

Within a few moments, its enormous figure completely disappeared beneath the water.

The sea gradually became calm once again.

One of Asher’s vessels looked at the place where the beast had disappeared before letting out a sigh.

"Looks like we just wasted our mana reserves."

He paused for a moment before adding,

"That beast didn’t even use its Domain in the end."

If Asher had wanted to, he could have simply ignored the Grandmaster-rank beast and continued flying toward the Grimwood Continent.

The beast had no way of catching him in the sky.

However, that had never been Asher’s objective.

He wanted to study Domains.

A Domain was the symbol of a Grandmaster.

It was a unique small world condensed by a Grandmaster using their mana, element, will, and comprehension.

Within that small world, the Grandmaster’s strength increased significantly, while the environment itself became far more suitable for their fighting style.

Every Domain was unique.

Even two Grandmasters with the same element could possess completely different Domains because no two people comprehended mana in exactly the same way.

A Water-element Grandmaster might create an endless ocean filled with towering waves, while another might condense countless rivers or rainstorms instead.

The appearance and abilities of a Domain reflected its creator’s understanding.

For those below the Grandmaster rank, fighting inside a Domain was extremely disadvantageous.

Not only would they have to face a stronger opponent, but they would also have to fight inside a world created by that very opponent.

That was why Domains were considered the true symbol separating Grandmasters from everyone below them.

Asher had not yet reached that rank.

He could not create a Domain of his own.

However, he could observe them.

Although he could not fully understand everything at his current rank, every observation added another piece to the puzzle.

Asher had already experienced Domains before.

He had fought inside the Domains of No. 1 and No. 2.

However, those battles had been completely different.

At that time, all of his focus had been on surviving.

Every second inside their Domains had been a struggle for his life.

He had also needed to end those battles as quickly as possible, leaving him with no opportunity to carefully observe or analyze the Domains themselves.

Because of that, although he had seen two Domains before, he had learned very little from them.

This time was different.

He wasn’t fighting to kill the beast.

His real objective was to make it manifest its Domain so he could study it in detail.

Only by observing enough different Domains could he gradually deepen his understanding and prepare himself for the day he reached the Grandmaster rank and condensed a Domain of his own.

The other fourteen vessels returned to the mini spatial domain one after another.

After the last vessel entered, the spatial crack closed.

The remaining vessel, still in his giant mana bird form, flapped his wings and continued his journey toward the Grimwood Continent.

Inside the Church Facility.

Asher was sleeping peacefully without a care in the world, just as he always did.

Then suddenly, a sharp alarm echoed throughout the room, instantly waking him up.

Asher slowly opened his eyes and sat up on the bed with a slightly annoyed expression.

He instinctively tried to check the time, only to remember that there wasn’t even a clock in the room.

Since the entire facility was built deep underground, there were no windows either, making it impossible to tell whether it was day or night.

After a moment, he simply checked the time through one of his other vessels.

It was 6:00 AM.

Seeing the time, Asher let out a helpless sigh.

This was the hour when he would normally still be asleep, but things were different now.

He was inside the Church Facility, where everyone followed a fixed schedule.

If he didn’t wake up on time, he would miss breakfast.

Although the food here was mediocre at best, it was still better than staying hungry.

Asher let out another sigh before getting out of bed.

He walked into the bathroom, washed up, and changed into the white doctor’s uniform that had been provided by the Church.

After making sure everything was in order, he left his room.

The corridors were already filled with doctors, healers, and guards heading toward their own duties.

Asher quietly followed the flow of people until he reached the cafeteria.

Just like yesterday, the breakfast was average at best.

He calmly finished his meal with everyone else before returning his tray.

After breakfast, Asher headed toward Dr. Samuel’s office.

It was the place where he had been instructed to report yesterday, and since he had no reason to be late, he walked there without wasting any time.

After a few minutes, Asher arrived outside Dr. Samuel’s office.

He knocked on the door.

A calm voice soon came from inside.

"Come in."

Asher opened the door and walked into the office.

He quietly looked around the room.

Unlike the small room he had been assigned, this office was spacious and luxuriously furnished.

A large wooden desk stood in the center, surrounded by bookshelves filled with books and documents, while expensive-looking furniture occupied the rest of the room.

However, Asher’s expression didn’t change.

His gaze soon shifted toward the corner of the room, where Klein was standing silently.

Just like yesterday, the Grandmaster bodyguard remained by Dr. Samuel’s side, watching everything without saying a word.