The instant the Red Moon descended upon this world, everyone staying behind in the City of Stars observed this miraculous phenomenon at the same time.
The last sliver of sunset completely vanished behind the mountains, and the sky was shrouded in a layer of chaotic darkness. The blood-red "moon" seemed to materialize out of thin air, descending into the world from that chaotic shadow amid the sound of bells. At first, Hilda thought the bells were coming from one of the towers in the City of Stars, but she soon realized that they were ringing from deep within her own mind. This was an extremely powerful mental projection. Everyone who gazed at the moonlight heard those mysterious, distant bells deep in their hearts. The sound seemed to come from antiquity, crossing endless stretches of time and space to project directly into everyone's mental world.
Everything in the City of Stars was dyed a faint, indifferent red. It was as though the moonlight were licking this world. The omnipresent red radiance ignored all obstructions and appeared directly on every surface within the Red Moon's range, giving everything an eerie hue. From this phenomenon alone, which violated all common sense of optics, even the dullest person could realize that the "moon" hanging in the sky was definitely no natural phenomenon.
The instant the red moonlight appeared, everyone in the ritual hall tensed instinctively. The "emergency stop device" in Lily's hands—that alloy sword X8—rose slightly with her, while Nangong Sanba reached out as if to touch the moonlight descending from the heavens.
"The moonlight isn't harmful!"
The blood-red moonlight spread between heaven and earth, yet aside from feeling considerable psychological pressure, those bathing in it suffered no direct negative effects. The various warning and detection arrays installed in advance on the outside of