So fast—unbelievably fast!!
Maya stared blankly at her own headless body standing upright where it was. The tension in its muscles was no different from before. Clearly, neither her eyes nor her body had reacted in time.
"You're pretty unlucky." Nefar's indifferent voice rang out again. "With your skills, you could have gone to the Flame Demon Domain or the Blood Demon Domain and retreated unscathed. Even if you went to the Wind Demon Domain where Sephiroth is, you wouldn't have died so helplessly. But you chose me."
Maya: ""
"Perhaps you thought I would be the weakest among them. That isn't wrong. Among the commanders of the Ten Great Legions, I am indeed the weakest. But things are different within a domain." Nefar's voice held a trace of amusement. "The Shadow Demon Domain is different from the other domains. It isn't suited to group battles, so it rarely appears on the battlefield. Shadow Power is the easiest kind of energy to compress, so the Shadow Demon Domain's effects aren't suited to armies—only individuals. It's a domain that can perfectly merge the energy of an entire Activated Star into a single person. Its enhancement of an individual is the strongest among all the Activated Stars."
After a pause, he continued, "Do you know how Lord Borton killed a dragon to make an Activated Star? It was me. I used the Shadow Demon Domain to assassinate that dragon."
"Oh. You probably can't hear what I'm saying anymore, can you?"
Within the shadows, Nefar's shadow withdrew, revealing an incomparably handsome face. He gazed at the bright sky with a complicated look in his eyes. "Actually, I really dislike this. I can clearly do incredible things, yet no one knows about them. Just like this time. Look—the only person who witnessed all this