The instant Salinger's Blood Banner, blazing with purplish-black flames as though it had become fuel for the Flames of Destruction, struck the Abomination's black trunk—its base embedded deep in the earth and its enormous hands reaching into the sky—the flailing hands, skulls, enormous eyeballs, and barbed tongues on its surface stiffened as though frozen.
Then countless black flames erupted from every part of that enormous, twisted body. Even the fiery soldier puppets that had climbed back onto its roots were stained the same color, instantly losing themselves and merging with the flames that could burn away flesh and annihilate spirit bodies.
This power combined an Apocalypse Demoness's power with a Conqueror's command over fire and destruction. It was more chaotic, and more dangerous, than the invisible, colorless flames produced by the Uniqueness alone.
The black slime coating Abomination Suah's trunk and enormous hands rapidly evaporated, revealing the withered limbs beneath. A faint roar emerged from deep within the trunk. Although the "wish" prevented it from making any sound, its power pierced space and reached straight into the soul, slowing Angel's movements slightly and instantly flooding her mind with all manner of evil thoughts and desires.
Had she truly been a newly advanced Apocalypse Demoness, she might already have lost the balance between her humanity and divinity and begun losing control amid those extreme emotions. But she was currently sharing the Mirror Person's stable sequence 1 state, which had already undergone digestion, so she naturally had no need to worry about that.
Indeed, she had already guessed that her inexplicable advancement was because the Mirror Person fighting on another battlefield had used a Yesterday Once More charm, just as she had when descending into reality in George III's mausoleum.
One of the underlying rules revealed by the Trunsoest Brass Book surfaced