"Idunn!?"
The instant he saw the ball of light, Bragi's face lit up with wild joy.
He swiftly set down the Holy Grail, shot into the sky, and flew straight toward the ball of light!
As the radiance gradually faded, Lin Qiye and the others finally saw the figure within it clearly. A glint of gold flashed deep in Monkey King's eyes as he nodded.
"That's right, it really is Idunn... but she's in a soul state."
When Bragi had made his wish just now, he had said, "Return to my side," rather than asking for a complete resurrection. So it was understandable that only a soul had appeared... If he had wanted her body resurrected as well, even the Holy Grail probably could not have done it.
"Being able to call her soul back is already not bad." Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes as he stared at the pale eyeball trembling within the vortex of dark clouds and spoke in a low voice. "But... what exactly is that thing?"
Thunder shook the heavens, and sand flew wildly through the air.
Bragi rose from the ruined earth like a crimson bolt of lightning. Not far above him was Idunn in her soul state, and higher still was the pale eye opening from within the vortex...
The eye stared at Idunn's soul, which had fallen from within it, and began to tremble violently. Black lightning swirled amid the dark clouds, writhing like an enraged beast descending from the heavens as it rolled down toward Idunn's soul, seemingly trying to swallow her back into its belly!
Fine, savage cracks spread across the eyeball's surface, instantly turning into a bizarre pale maw that bit down toward the earth!
In the gray world, tiny Bragi and that enormous mysterious eye closed in on Idunn at