Rumble...
"How could this happen? A World Gate appearing from inside a monster!"
Novi looked up at the World Gate that continued to rise, and staggered back several steps as if her body had lost all strength.
Bang!
Only when her back struck the hard stone wall did Novi stop. She muttered blankly:
"...Is this a coordinate?!"
Naturally sensitive to spatial abilities, Novi easily understood the never-before-seen situation before her.
Earlier, she had still been wondering why the number of monsters kept increasing.
She had originally thought the powerful Magic Power fluctuations from the ritual had damaged the seal, and that the unstable unsealing of the World Gate had caused the monsters to appear in large numbers.
Now, she understood!
Only then did Novi seem to come back to herself. The longbow in her hand creaked as she clenched it.
"So that's how it is. The ritual from before hasn't ended yet?!"
It was completely beyond her expectations!
She had never even considered that the ritual had not been interrupted at all!
Novi recalled the person who had fought Moss earlier. His name seemed to have been Aster.
The powerful Magic Power fluctuations she had sensed from Aster at the time were probably one of the reasons she had misjudged the situation.
The true purpose of the Sacrifice Ritual was not resurrection, but summoning a World Gate!
"Damn it!"
Novi suddenly bit down hard, and a terrifying thought rose in her heart.
A World Gate that could hide inside a monster!
If the coordinates of this World Gate had been locked onto a monster from the very beginning—
If the coordinates of a World Gate could be locked onto a person or living creature...
Even if there were only one. Even if it were merely a hundred-meter-class World Gate!
Novi