Boom!
A meteor fell, shaking the snowfield.
Dream Eater Tapir was shielded beneath Ouroboros Snake Ouroboros. Only its eyes could peer through the gaps and see the snake raising its head toward the sky, fearlessly meeting the meteor with the bearing of a lordly hill.
But the meteor's impact was too powerful. Even after transforming into an ochre hill, Ouroboros's body still began to crumble piece by piece beneath the blow.
"No!"
"Lord Ouroboros!"
Tapir howled loudly, wailing endlessly in its heart, "No! You could have left! You didn't need to protect me!"
But Ouroboros could no longer hear it. Its energy-form body could not hold out for long against the meteor's impact. It broke apart piece by piece, then shattered into fragments and crumbled into a pile of dust.
The meteor's momentum slowed, but it still carried an immense impact.
Without Ouroboros's protection, Tapir would still be crushed to death by this falling meteor, with no possibility of escape.
"Why are you so foolish? Even if you blocked the meteor for me, all that would happen is one more death!" Tapir watched the ochre light fade away and the meteor continue its furious descent, feeling as though time had suddenly become extraordinarily slow.
So slow that even the meteor's impact seemed to drag on endlessly.
At that moment.
Its mind was in chaos. Scenes of Ouroboros training it flashed through its thoughts like a revolving lantern.
Technically, it was Russell's Contract Partner Phantom Beast, but in truth, it had spent less time with Russell than it had with Ouroboros.
Russell was too busy, and too strong.
So strong that he had no need for any boost from Tapir's strength, and so busy that he had no time to properly bond with Tapir. Thus, most of the time, he had