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"Clang—!"
Platinum-white light as brilliant and dazzling as the sun turned into towering rays that blossomed in the center of the entire arena. It surged outward like a tide, covering heaven and earth in an instant, blindingly bright beyond imagination.
One after another, everyone present cried out in alarm. Then, their vision was pierced by those dazzling rays, and they all shut their eyes instinctively.
In that instant, the thick black mist permeating the arena was dispersed by the towering platinum-white light. The jet-black Giant Serpent, Ophiuchus, let out a sharp cry, its voice filled with panic and confusion.
At that moment, not a single person present could see anything but the dazzling platinum-white light, and a commotion broke out.
Yet amid the commotion, an exceptionally clear voice rang out like a song.
"—Sacred starlight, lightning of salvation, wisdom of the Goddesses, immortal steel... O sword, manifest within my hand—"
It was a language that no one in this world could understand.
That was because it was a Spirit incantation composed in the language of Spirits, something that did not belong to this world at all.
Thus, everyone could only hear an obscure, incomprehensible, yet profoundly mysterious chant. Immediately afterward, the towering platinum-white light illuminating heaven and earth swelled dramatically, becoming even more blinding.
No one knew how long it took for those present to adapt to the blinding platinum-white radiance.
When their vision finally recovered somewhat, the spectators filling the entire arena realized something.
The platinum-white light filling heaven and earth came from a sword.
A sword entirely platinum-white, its