Lily had one marvelous talent: no matter how absurd the circumstances, she could always come up with an idea and carry it out with unwavering determination. Throughout the process, she maintained a hundred percent enthusiasm and confidence. Nothing could make this ever-cheerful Husky spirit feel dejected or doubt herself—just as she had firmly believed she could find the Landlord without a hitch, she now firmly believed that the meatball before her, which could not even conjure up braised pork ribs, was merely a deceptively impressive illusion monster. There was no particular reason for it. She simply believed it.
But her confidence, which disregarded everyone around her, seemed baffling to others. Kalasios stared at the pack leader in astonishment, unable to figure out what the "ribs" in her mouth had to do with the monster before them. After careful consideration, he decided that the pack leader must have engaged in a grueling and perilous battle of minds with the monster in the mental world, and that the "ribs" might have been the key factor that determined the outcome.
Well, he actually wasn't wrong...
The Templar Knight had gone to great lengths to restrain the monster. Compared with ordinary creatures of chaos, the lump of flesh within this cloud of smoke was like a mollusk, lacking any fixed shape. It twisted and struggled without end, and the enchanted-metal chains could not be secured around it at all. In the end, Kalasios had no choice but to take a rune-covered iron cage from his dimensional container and lock the monster inside. He then used the Imprisonment Stone and rune chains to seal the cage layer upon layer before the job could finally be considered done.
The high-ranking priest spat at the lump of flesh inside the cage. "Sukto's Cage, which imprisons all evil