The light flared brilliantly, bleaching the deathly silent sky white.
It even made Bobota's already pallid skin gleam.
The sudden light drew their attention as well. Looking up, they saw an arc streak across the sky—a white radiance trailing a long tail as it descended from above.
It looked like a falling star.
And it was falling right onto the barren mountain where they stood.
Alarm flashed through Angel's eyes. Whatever was falling toward them, it could not bode well—especially while they were still under the effects of Toby's Calamity Curse.
"Run!" Angel spun around, grabbed Grewu from the ground, and the Nightflight beneath his feet flashed with black-gold patterns. In a blink, he shot toward the distant plains.
Angel had barely flown beyond the barren mountain when a terrifying boom erupted behind him.
The shockwave from that boom spread outward in ripples, reaching even Angel, who had already left the mountain's range. A fierce gale swept over him, sending him spinning through the air several times before he finally steadied himself.
When he looked back, the barren mountain had already been swallowed by dust and smoke. Countless shattered rocks burst from the haze like a volcanic eruption. Yet where a volcano spewed lava, this eruption spewed fragments of the mountain itself.
What had happened? Could an extraterrestrial meteor really have been affected by the Calamity Curse and struck down with unerring precision?
Angel stared suspiciously at the smoke-shrouded remains of the barren mountain.
But at that moment, a sudden, utterly unheralded palpitation rose in Angel's heart. His heartbeat pounded like a drum, and even his blood seemed to freeze.
This feeling... Angel had originally intended to check on Bobota, but now he had no such thought at all. He turned and fled without hesitation.
Yet before he could get