"----"
Before long, the domain that reflected the entire world swayed like an illusion in water and vanished.
The clear skies stretching for miles and the magnificent Buddha shrine all disappeared in an instant, returning everyone to the violently shaking royal city and the collapsing Throne Hall.
Yet everyone's minds were blank, as though they had even forgotten that they were in danger.
That endless expanse of storm-like slashing light seemed to still linger in their minds and vision, leaving every one of them staring vacantly, unable to react for a long time.
Riezel stood there with his back to the others, still maintaining the Dandain Seal in his hand.
Around him, every ferocious, savage Black Dog had disappeared.
They were dead.
They had been shredded by countless slashes, pulverized into pieces finer than dust. It was as though they had been reduced to ash, leaving behind not even a single limb. Only pools of blood remained where they had stood, proving that they had once existed.
As for the Pitch-Black Giant Dog before Riezel—the Beast Calamity Bagster—it had not been chopped to pieces.
Since Riezel had deliberately shown mercy, Bagster was still alive.
However, there was hardly an intact patch of skin left on the giant dog's body. As though it had been sliced thousands of times, it was covered in slashing wounds and drenched in blood.
"Thud..."
The Pitch-Black Giant Dog collapsed onto the ground, its entire body twitching. It seemed to want to struggle back to its feet, but failed.
"Whoosh!"
Riezel instantly appeared before the Pitch-Black Giant Dog, extending one hand and placing it on its body.
"Idle Transfiguration."
At that moment, the Cursed Dog's soul, just like Meiliuqina's before it, fell under Riezel's control.
Normally, after transforming into their current forms and becoming the "Crimson