Northern Loen, the Ammantha Mountain Range, outside Serenity Church.
Upon discovering that most of the Church of Evernight's High Sequence Beyonders were gradually withdrawing here, most of the saints and angels from Feysac and Feynapotter turned their attention to a fierce assault on the church known as the Holy Cathedral.
Beneath the deep night sky, Flame Spears streaked across the black velvet curtain toward the church's Gothic spires, only to vanish without a trace before landing, as though erased. On the ground, bizarre plants grew wildly, drawing in all the life force around them, only to be enveloped in profound darkness and silently disappear moments later.
Beside the cliff in front of the church, a gigantic tree writhed incessantly. It looked as though oil had been poured over it, coating its surface in thick black liquid, and its branches consisted of strange arms covered in eyes and mouths.
These arms rapidly lengthened. Some approached the Church of Evernight's saints guarding Serenity Church from the ground, some pointed at the sky as though praying, and others simply smashed straight at the church's bell tower.
Clang—
A clear ring spread outward. A shield of faint dawn light appeared between the black arms and the church, blocking the Abomination Suah's attack. It looked ready to collapse at any moment, yet never broke.
Had the Abomination not learned before the battle that the Church of Evernight possessed a Sealed Artifact containing a Glory characteristic long missing from the God of War Church, he would almost have thought an angel of the God of War Church, temporarily on the same side as him, was obstructing him.
Seeing that brute force was ineffective, the fissures on every arm of the grotesque tree opened like bloody maws, unleashing a roar that pierced straight into Spirit Bodies.
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