(Heartfelt thanks to 'Ars Alreid', 'Wanguo', 'Book Friend from Wanwan', 'Qi Guan Xuan Qi', 'Fallen Star Spirit', 'Liufeng Zheshui', and 'Doujin Book Friend Archer' for their rewards!)
"No! Mr. Noah! Stop him!"
Almost at the same moment Black Rabbit shouted those words, the Gorgon Medusa head-shaped ornament Luos had torn from his neck burst into a blinding light.
"Zing—!"
Amid the tremors in the air, the dazzling light filling the entire space was the color of deep crimson blood.
The scarlet radiance bloomed from the Gift Luos held aloft, flashing like starlight as it sent wave after wave of light rippling outward, surging in every direction like a tide.
Holding up that blinding light, Luos declared loudly.
"Come forth! Algol!"
At that instant, the light in Luos's hand suddenly shot into the sky like a pillar, piercing the heavens and vanishing into the clouds.
"Buzzz—!"
The next moment, the entire sky abruptly trembled. As though reflecting the previous beam of light, a scarlet pillar shook the space as it descended from the heavens, crashing into the ground in the blink of an eye.
"Boom—!"
As if something enormously heavy had descended and struck the ground, the entire space seemed to shudder. In a single instant, the scarlet light blanketed the whole area.
"—!"
Everyone present, Noah included, reflexively raised their hands in front of their faces.
No one knew how long passed before the blinding brilliance gradually faded.
Yet every person present felt their hearts tremble slightly.
Because an astonishingly oppressive presence had enveloped the entire area.
Then, a sound echoed throughout heaven and earth.
"Eeeeeee—!"
It was a shrill cry like both a piercing screech and an infant's wail, an incomprehensible shriek no human could understand.
Along with that shriek, a figure entered everyone's sight.
It was a woman.