At this moment,
within the deep and silent Music Hall.
The atmosphere that should have been filled with flowing melodies was instead one of absolute darkness without even a trace of light, as though even the concept of time had been swallowed by the boundless gloom.
Yet within this pitch-black space,
the endless Shadow Soul-Eating Swarm
had,
for the first time, felt what "fear" truly was!
Boundless pure-white flames ignited without warning.
Those flames were immaculate, like sacred light from another world, instantly dispersing all the gloom and fear within the Music Hall.
Their radiance illuminated not only the girl's face, but also Su Wen's handsome yet profound features.
And as Prometheus's flames surged completely upward,
before they burned away everything,
perhaps they would never cease!
Yet Su Wen remained silent, not saying a single word as he watched the scene blaze brightly before his eyes.
At the same time,
Miss Joyce, who had wrapped her soft arms around his arm out of nervousness—or perhaps simply because she wanted to act spoiled—also watched the scene intently.
The girl's beautiful eyes shimmered brightly, though no one knew what she was thinking at that moment.
It was simply that
the Abyss, which had always treated civilizations as bait, and even the deathly swarms that endlessly devoured, replicated, and spread everything,
had perhaps never imagined
that one day, they themselves would become prey.
The insects twisted and burned within the pure-white inferno.
In the end, they became ripples that left behind not even corpses.
Only then,
seeing that the flames had gone out,
the bold Miss Joyce gently crouched down.
Then, meeting the gaze of the little girl who had been so terrified that she had lost consciousness and could only stand there blankly, she offered her an exceptionally gentle smile.
"It's all