As early as when the various Beyonder Creatures surged toward Bernadette and Anne, Klein had sensed that something was wrong. Using the True Vision provided by the prayer light, he carefully examined the wyverns, giants, and demonic wolves. Their skin was pale and their limbs stiff, with some parts already rotting, like Zombies under someone's control. Yet they lacked the aura of death associated with undead creatures and instead brimmed with vigorous vitality.
Those rotten patches did not resemble the decay caused by microorganisms after death. They were a strange phenomenon brought about by excessive growth!
Combining the title "The Undying" in the honorific name of the Great Mother whom Nast worshipped—that is, the Mother Goddess of Depravity—with the abilities of the Mother and Moon Pathways symbolized by her Brood Hive, he had formed some suspicions about what was wrong with this island.
Now, upon hearing Angel's words, Klein no longer hesitated. He drew out a roughly cut Paper Figurine, gave it a casual shake, and tossed it into the halo formed by Bernadette's prayer.
With a swish, the Paper Figurine expanded and thickened in midair, becoming the holy angel he had used when bestowing blessings in the past. Its twelve pairs of illusory wings fluttered as it descended into the prayer image amid drifting white feathers.
This Paper Doll Angel carried neither his usual blessing nor the aura of Sefirah Castle that countered divination and prophecy. Instead, it contained an ability he rarely used: Historical Void Image.
Beneath the golden beams that kept streaking through the sky, Anne was about to reconstruct a "balanced" battlefield when her expression suddenly changed. She lunged toward Bernadette, who was summoning an Invisible Servant beside her to retrieve a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
At the same time, that unnerving "tide," which seemed