Huli transformed into her true form. The enormous Nine-tailed Demon Fox howled as she charged into the sky, foxfire spraying into barrages that nearly tore the clouds apart. The huge explosions created by the Fox Tail missiles shook the low-hanging clouds.
Luna's figure flashed and darted through the wind, rain, and thunder, cutting down the savage, frenzied Demonic Beasts. The phantom of a knight order appeared beside her from time to time, waiting for an opportunity to drag isolated black-robed ascetics into a battlefield of death and souls.
Meanwhile, Yu Sheng and Eileen kept their attention fixed on the white-robed, grim and imposing priest of the Hermetic Society.
Eileen suddenly leaned close to Yu Sheng's ear and muttered, "Hey, hey, Yu Sheng, we've fought this hard and still haven't drawn anyone out."
Yu Sheng frowned slightly and swept his gaze across the surroundings.
The sky still remained in that bizarre state of collapsing and tilting as though it were a shattered mirror. The structure of the entire space seemed to have shifted out of alignment. Beneath the coverage of the broken, crooked firmament, everything within sight appeared layered and indistinct. The buildings on the ground would occasionally become strangely illusory and transparent, and whenever lightning flashed, the blinding light seemed to pierce straight through everything on the surface, illuminating a primitive landscape of jagged rocks beneath the city.
With this strange phenomenon reinforcing it, the sensation of two spaces overlapping grew increasingly intense and distinct.
At the same time, Yu Sheng noticed that the white-robed priest had not launched any further attacks. Although he was on his home ground and had the advantage in numbers, with an "out-of-control Artificial Saintess" nearby repeatedly provoking him, most of the time he merely kept a cautious distance from the center of the battlefield,