In the area covered by ashes and black dregs, which was the remnant of the World Tree, Morris, Nina, and Taran El and their company had successfully found several Knowledge Guardians who had awakened from the illusion.
Just as Morris had predicted, these Knowledge Guardians, equivalent to those "entering the Dream for the first time," had been scattered to random locations within the ruins of Silantis. Fortunately, most of them had not dispersed too far, and Nina's launching of the Fireball into the sky was so conspicuous that these scattered Guardians converged to investigate the situation, which quickly brought them all together.
Except for the last person.
"We still haven't found any trace of Sir Ted Riel," a Knowledge Guardian dressed in a short robe, holding a scroll and a revolver, returned to the temporary resting spot and said to Taran El and Morris, who were waiting there, "There's no sign of the agreed signal, and there's no response to the call of Spiritual Energy."