At the critical moment, Shade spread his hands before him to protect himself and actively embraced the darkness ahead. The instant the darkness swallowed him, silver radiance lit up from his body. Then the fiercely burning Primordial Fire even suppressed the Silver Moon's glow, turning Shade into a blazing orange-red torch whose rising flames instantly illuminated the entire sky.
This was something even Shade had not expected. He had originally intended to use the light on his body and God's Radiance to fight the darkness after being engulfed by it, but he had not expected the First Fire to be even more sensitive to the darkness after the end of the world.
He did not even need to do anything. Amid a thunderous boom, the roaring flames scattered the darkness that had transformed into black light before him—the dark fishman.
The fishman ignited by the flames was forced back, turning into black water before gathering again into the fishman form of Mrs. Lemmer. It let out a threatening cry at Shade, who was burning with the First Fire, but neither its own shadow nor the tentacles lurking in the darkness dared come even half a step closer to him.
Though Shade did not know why the First Fire had reacted so strongly, he knew this was not the time to investigate. The Great Sin Chains shot out from both hands at once, instantly entangling the tentacles behind the fishman. Streams of Primordial Fire spread along the six runes of Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, wrath, Pride, and Indifference toward those black shadows. Within the firelight illuminating the entire square, the fishman's main body recoiled in terror before it even came into contact with the First Fire.
But it quickly adjusted itself. The tentacles and shadows were drawn into its body, and all