"Vermin... you've done well!"
In the sky, watching futilely as the darkness within the doorway vanished, the High Priest's previously frantic emotions instead calmed down.
Sensing that the spatial seal of the domain was about to be completely breached, he tightened his grip on the Black Stone Scepter and stared coldly in Anvis's direction. Blazing fury finally rose in his dead, lifeless gaze.
"A thousand years! I waited a full thousand years for this moment! Yet you ignorant vermin have ruined everything!!"
"Since that's the case, you might as well stay here with me!"
As his faint words echoed, the High Priest raised his scepter and swept it sharply through the air. A dazzling purple flash suddenly gleamed across the surface of the strange Diamond Black Stone at its tip.
As that light appeared, a violent mutation suddenly occurred on the distant island.
Bright, miserable green phosphorescence, like burning flames, abruptly billowed from the island's surface, illuminating the night sky that had only just returned to darkness.
Inside the sacrificial cave beneath the island's mountains, the Green Phosphorescence on the surface of the Holy Grail atop the great black altar suddenly intensified sharply. The indescribable liquid within the cup began to truly burn violently! "L'a—y'a—"
Within the cave, countless ragged-robed Moon-Calling Cultists chanted in unison. Their bodies, which radiated miserable green phosphorescence, suddenly began to collapse and burned away completely.
The unconscious sacrifices atop the three smaller altars likewise began to glow with phosphorescence. The rate at which their essential power leaked away immediately increased drastically, and their faces gradually began to age.
In that instant, the Mutated Magical Beasts among the island's mountains and the residents of Lavanles below Fifth Rank were instantly 'burned to ash,' turning into miserable green phosphorescent dust that scattered away.
As this change occurred,