"What...!?"
When the faint, heavy footsteps echoed around them, everyone's expression changed.
Magnus in particular underwent an unprecedented change in complexion, as if he already knew exactly who the owner of those footsteps was.
"W-What?"
"What happened?"
"What is that sound?"
Even Irori, Yaya, and Koko instinctively sensed the danger and moved closer to Luo Zhen one after another.
Raizen had also raised the Kansei Masamune in his hand at some point, staring warily toward the source of the sound.
As for Luo Zhen, his gaze had already fallen in that direction.
Because a terrifying aura of magical power was surging there.
It was the existence Luo Zhen had glimpsed, aside from Raizen and Magnus, when he had come outside Fool's Sanctuary.
Now, that existence had appeared.
In the very next second, everyone clearly saw a figure crawl out of the darkness in the depths of the sanctuary.
It was an enormous figure.
The figure stood over a hundred meters tall, its body even larger than the buildings around it. It looked like a giant, yet countless eyeballs covered its entire body. Its surface was fluid, bringing to mind flowing magma.
Its appearance was exactly the same as those monsters wandering outside. They were all genuine—"monsters."
However, this monster was far larger than those wandering outside, and the aura it radiated was far more vicious. The monsters outside could not compare to it at all.
"—!"
Overwhelmed by that utterly vicious aura, everyone present underwent a drastic change in expression.
The girls, especially Snow Moon Flower and the others, turned deathly pale when they saw the creature in its entirety.
"Wh-What is that...!?"
Raizen was also shocked and horrified.
Magnus stared fixedly at the creature and spoke.
"Have you broken free of the seal? Androginus!"
It seemed that the monster