Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the Crimson Demon Star crashed down. The already ruined Enzworth Castle immediately crumbled apart, while enormous, terrifying mushroom clouds rose one after another from the ground, forming scorching firestorms that swept in every direction.
Wherever they passed, the earth turned to scorched soil. Melted bricks and stones became fiery-red crystals, while rare flowers, grass, and trees withered and burned away. As far as the eye could see, the world was crimson, as though it had become a blazing inferno.
The figure standing directly in the line of fire on the balcony had already completely dissolved into the sea of flames.
"Sayo... Ayaka!"
Above the wall of trees, whose branches, leaves, and vines were violently burning and peeling away, Darius, Head of the Enzworth Family, resisted the crushing wind pressure and looked back toward the edge of the impact crater. Seeing the blonde, blue-eyed girl in an elegant princess dress, who appeared utterly harmless, his face twisted as he roared through clenched teeth.
"Root Princess" Sayo Ayaka had been connected to the Root from the moment she was born, possessing overwhelming magical energy and talent, with power equal to—or even surpassing—that of a Magus. She could wield the "Monster Princess," a barrier that materialized the authority of the primordial goddess, Mother of Beasts, as well as ancient magical domains such as "Holy Capital Inferno" and "Holy Capital Fall," which revived in the modern age the power of the Ten Crowns of the Beast of Revelation.
Great Magic on this scale could only have been her exclusive specialty!
Darius had never expected that it would not be their Saber who rebelled, but this Master and Servant pair defecting together.
Naturally, such an unwise act left the Head of the Enzworth Family utterly baffled. Unable to