Before Sha Sha began her dive, the emerald on Iver's chest shone with the emerald-green radiance of the Path of Adaptation.
Without words or ritual, accompanied only by the barely perceptible fluctuations of the Path of Adaptation's power, Iver and Leviathan vanished from sight. Even the increasingly shrill sound of their glide, like a bomber plunging into a dive, suddenly disappeared just before reaching its peak.
The Free People on the ground were either kneeling before various divine statues or praying intently.
No one raised their heads to look at the sky—and no one dared to.
To look up at the sky was equivalent to placing the statues of "Generous Adil," which stood everywhere throughout the city, beneath one's gaze. In Parthia, "looking down on someone with one's eyes" represented contempt and disdain. If someone with ulterior motives reported it, or if soldiers discovered it, they would immediately increase their covert surveillance of that person.
For this reason, the people of Paradise City basically kept their eyes humbly fixed on the ground as they walked. They wore robes and hoods, hunching their bodies as they moved slowly along the broad, spotless streets.
Meanwhile, Iver and Sha Sha silently landed behind a temporarily unoccupied building.
Scales broke away from Leviathan's body one after another, floating in midair.
Her nearly three-meter-tall body melted into a viscous mass of blood. Immediately afterward, the blood mass expanded violently, transforming into a well-behaved little girl.
The color of her hair and pupils made people think of the deep, bottomless sea.
The scales that had been floating in midair touched and fused with one another, turning into a dark blue dress. Only after it was put on Leviathan did it gradually gain texture and detail from a vague, mosaic-like model, slowly becoming more like a real