In the silence that followed his proclamation, Daneel activated the Basilisk's Breath in order to not activate any time, at all.
"System, list the ways that can be used to quickly increase our power levels."
[Assessing all available data. Listing possibilities…]
As he began to go through the list in his mind, the eyes of the King of Lanthanor began to glow, and seeing it, the sovereigns immediately fell silent as a feeling of anticipation that they could hardly control came into being within their hearts.
…
Half a day later.
At a location 800 m from the coast of Angaria.
The Endless Sea was a vast expanse which no ordinary individual dared to tread upon.
Even though many villages which weren't under the rule of any force in the Central Continent existed on the fringe areas of Angaria where their sustenance was pletely dependent on what they could get from this ferocious and unrelenting part of their world, those who resided within them knew that it was only so much they could do without consciously courting death.
For example, even though a few fishermen ventured into the Sea when the waves were relatively calm, usually at the earliest hours of the morning, they would only go as far as a hundred meters inward.
Even this was considered to be extremely dangerous, and the mortality rate was such that it would scare anyone who wished to pursue such an endeavor. Yet, the mysterious men who always arrived to purchase all of the fish that they caught for exorbitant prices which would allow them to sustain themselves for quite a long time still made many people brace themselves and decide to try their luck, and hence, it was almost every day that the Endless Sea found itself a new victim.
A small family who had run out of options to pursue due to a recent spate of bad events had just rowed their boat onto this lonely expanse.
There was a man and a woman, and the latter was holding a picture close to her heart.
"Must we really do this? Can't we just go back and beg them? Why should we leave him alone?
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