The moment he met the Giant Eye's gaze, Anvis's mind shook violently. He instantly broke out of the observation state, and his face turned deathly pale.
Fortunately, he had been in the observation state beforehand. With the entire Floating City's power acting as a barrier, he had barely managed to see its true form.
He couldn't look at it. His true body absolutely could not meet its gaze directly.
After taking several hurried breaths and drinking a potion to restore damaged spiritual power, Anvis sighed helplessly.
Sure enough, whenever the Old Days Secret Scripture made a prophecy, he would inevitably be dragged into some enormous trouble involving a Beyond Ninth Rank existence.
That thing's rank undoubtedly exceeded the Ninth Rank Limit.
Moreover, its aura reminded Anvis of the underwater city Ruins on that strange little island, which he had forcibly destroyed with a Magic Nuclear Bomb.
The aura of that chaotic, writhing dark thing deep beyond the enormous gate at the city's center—a gate even the nuclear blast had failed to destroy—was exactly the same as that Bloody Single Eye.
He suddenly began to suspect that, during the distant Ancient Golden Era, that might also have been a Floating City.
'War arose, the spiral collapsed, and glory faded. Old Days' Stars fell into the depths of the sea. Though the ancient Ruins were covered in coral, an ominous presence still lurked within.'
'Darkness from distant stars slumbers in an eternal palace. An indescribable dream, an unknown world, awaits the Moment of Stars Returning.'
Recalling those two brief pages of prophecy, Anvis finally understood their true meaning.
Just as he had suspected, that Black Cocoon was not actually the "darkness" mentioned in the prophecy. At most, it was only a small part of that so-called "darkness."
And the true meaning of