A few minutes later, even after Daneel returned to his room in the Kingdom of Lanthanor, he still had a smile on his face as he kept shaking his head and laughing to himself.
The sovereigns were all present, waiting for him to explain just what was going on, but even though the seconds kept ticking by, the king only continued doing this as if he was so stunned that he needed some time to get back to normal.
However… All of their curiosities were piqued, too, so Elanev was the first one who lost his patience.
"Enough, already! We were going to die for you, you know!"
Direct as always, his words made Daneel step back to reality, but even after that, he let out a bout of hearty laughter and said, "Okay, I'm really sorry, but it was just too much! Fine, I'll give you a summary. My master is one who likes to put things in a plex manner, but I found that I can strip away most of it and just give you the barebones details. Let me give you the most shocking thing, though, first - remember that Head who I spoke about extensively, and who I thought I should be wary about? He's my junior disciple brother now!"
Daneel felt like laughing again when he saw the expressions on his sovereign's spaces, but he controlled himself.
They all looked like they had been struck by lightning, and that was exactly how he had felt after that man had appeared out of the blue in the cave.
It had been clear that he respected the one who had called upon him extremely, and that he was ready to do anything that was asked of him. Hence, even after being pletely puzzled regarding what was going on, he had obliged, although he looked like he had a torrent of questions to ask.
What had happened after that was that he had been asked to leave and that he would be contacted later, and the Head had simply nodded with respect, without even asking a single question among the ones that looked like they were close to bursting out of his mouth.
Thankfully, Daneel did not have to control his curiosity like that, because his master had told him right away after that that the second duty of the one who was in this role was that they would tour the continent and pick out those that they felt had potential before training them and giving them a chance to change their fate.
The deciding factor would always be regarding their character, and what they felt about the land that had given birth to them.
The help given by Fenoras during this activity was in no means small. Anyone who had benefited from him would definitely want to follow him for life, and because of the skills of character analysis that were apparently given with this role along with the repertoire of spells in which the one that had saved him was present, there had been almost no case in history where this didn't happen. No matter what forces these people joined later on, their most sacred bond would always be to that man who had helped them when they had nothing, and they would be ready to do anything, even if it meant giving up their lives, if he asked.
That was exactly what the Head had done, and Daneel slowly started to understand.
At that point, he had had to take a few moments first, because he had needed to consolidate everything that he had found out.
When he had done so, Daneel realized that Angaria was really like an onion whose layers kept popping up even though he kept peeling as many as he could find.
First, he had thought that the Central Continent was all that there was, and after that, he had been exposed to the Big Four.
Next, he had found out about the Church and the forces from outside the continent, and he had thought that that might be it.
After that, he had been exposed to the seed program which was hidden even in the Big Four, and even though he hadn't really thought about it, he had assumed that it might be the last major secret he would uncover.
Yet… He had found the Order which was so well hidden that he had been quite shocked when he was exposed to it, and now, there was this place, which was even more secretive than the Order.
Why? Why were there so many? Why wasn't stuff consolidated so that it would be able to output the best results possible? Why did there need to be so much secrecy?
Daneel got these questions as they were what anyone would ask whenever they got fed up of finding secret organization after secret organization no matter where they searched.
Yet… He got the answer himself, too, as it was pretty obvious.
Humans were plicated, and no one could really expect what anyone would do. Take the Order, for example. He had thought that it might be a perfect existence that was meant to protect Angaria, but the truth was that the one leading it had somehow hoodwinked everybody since the age of the Apocalypse.
And besides… The Order had so many people that there was a chance of even its safety rules being broken. A secret was always much more likely to be kept if the fewest people knew about it, and in this case, there were clearly much fewer people than those in the Order.
But… What still concerned him was the origins of these forces. The Order was also supposed to have always existed in the continent, and many even said that it had been established by the Will of the World when the continent had been formed. If so… What about this golden lightning thing? When he had first e here, Daneel hadn't been expecting to find an organization. He had just thought that he would find some kind of safe house where someone familiar with his master might be present to give him some answers, but it now made sense that if someone like that existed who had concealed themselves even from the Order for so long, then it must mean that they should have some sort of backing behind them.
Everything was getting really plicated, but Daneel got the thought that in fact… All of it wasn't important.
All he cared about was saving this continent from the Church, and for that, he was ready to use anyone he had to.
And as for this force, whatever it was… It was clearly prepared to give him much more than the Order, at least, because it had already placed the Head under his mand.
He had still been quite surprised about that, but it was only after he made all this analysis that he finally prepared to listen to his master regarding the rest of what was going on, and the answers for all his questions.
After telling the sovereigns about what had happened till here, Daneel took a deep breath and then continued, saying, "Their name is simple: they are simply called "The Watchers Who Wait
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