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Watching Ikaros and Astrea enter Pandora Mode at the same time, one with pink wings and the other with pure white wings, Wu Yan was left stunned. Even after the world had calmed down once more and only the sound of black mist rolling remained, he still had not snapped out of it...
There was no other reason. He simply thought they were too beautiful... just too beautiful...
He had clearly seen Ikaros' Pandora Mode once before, yet after so much time had passed, seeing it again still inevitably drew Wu Yan's heart in. That holiness, nobility, beauty, and purity constantly tugged at his heart, making him lose himself in it...
And if Ikaros' Pandora Mode was enough to make Wu Yan lose himself, then Astrea's brand-new second-evolution Pandora Mode truly shook him to the core.
All along, Astrea had been an innocent, carefree little girl in Wu Yan's eyes—simple beyond compare, fond of eating and playing, without a single worry. Even though she possessed outstanding combat strength, her personality made almost everyone in their group regard her as a younger sister, instinctively wanting to take the best possible care of her.
But Astrea now...
Her blue gown swayed gently. Her two locks of golden hair had been fixed to the right side of her head by wing-like hair ornaments, forming two joined ponytails that looked like a forked single ponytail. That small change concealed Astrea's innocence and naivety well, replacing them with shrewdness and valiance...
Her original light armor had vanished. The only armor left on Astrea's body was the two skirt-armor-like pieces hanging from either side of