Rui's eyebrows rose at her words. "…the second spark?"
She nodded. "Do you recall what I told you about the Key several months ago?"
Immediately, he schooled his expression, hiding the spike in his nervousness from the Divine Mother. Thankfully, he had grown accustomed to this.
He simply nodded. "I recall. I believe that it was a rather dubious potential clue of the possibility of the Key to the Universalis Mensis appearing in our star strand."
"Correct, it was rather dubious, but even the faintest clue of the Key is worth the attention of other advanced civilizations beyond our own," she replied with a serious, yet inhuman tone of voice. "They had already begun preparing for a thorough scan of our galaxy, looking for the Key."
It took years, sometimes even decades, for advanced civilizations that had conquered billions of stars to make a major move. These civilizations were so unfathomably vast and unwieldy that even a single step could take a decade to execute.
