Trina instinctively looked up for that golden figure, but found nothing. She only felt the Golden Tree's radiance growing ever more dazzling.
Clearly, the Golden Tree was going all out as well. The Two Fingers had recalled Godfrey and restored him to his peak at any cost, so it was only natural for them to bestow a little more grace...
Thinking this, Trina felt that something was off again—
That light seemed to be growing stronger still...
Looking carefully, Trina finally realized that the light growing ever brighter did not come from the Golden Tree in Leyndell City, visible from anywhere in the Lands Between, but from the... sun, which had been firmly obscured among its lush branches for countless centuries.
Having lived in Leyndell since childhood, Trina had naturally noticed the sun before.
However, in Trina's memories, the sun was merely a celestial body occasionally glimpsed through the Golden Tree's luxuriant branches. It was even dimmer than the bright stars of the night.
Yet today, Trina unexpectedly discovered that the sun she remembered as not even worthy of being an ornament on the Golden Tree was shining with a radiance even more dazzling than the Golden Tree's.
Beneath that warm yet blazing light, Trina suddenly felt that the great Golden Tree's radiance now seemed so illusory, so fragile.
And as Trina realized the source of the change, the blazing sunlight also made Godfrey understand what had happened.
"They actually went to Sky Castle and killed Maliketh?"
Ignoring the Black Blade he had dismembered, Godfrey stared fixedly at the unprecedentedly brilliant sun overhead. Energy surged through his body like a boiling volcano, and his fighting spirit blazed fiercely.
Although the Black Blade's death and the theft of Destined Death had not been part of Godfrey's plan—or rather, had ruined it—Godfrey