"Hm?"
Shade believed he was not the only one startled and confused at that moment. Behind the thick arm gripping the great sword was neither a Dragon nor a giant, but an incomparably enormous Dragon Egg.
More precisely, the scaled arm extended from a hole broken through the eggshell's surface, clutching the Bone Offering Sword, while most of the gigantic Dragon Egg remained hidden behind the fissure in the ground.
It had only been pulled out for an instant by the Moonlight Dragon Shade had transformed into. Then, a force even greater than Shade's current power directly dragged the Dragon Egg, arm, and great sword back into the crack.
Buzz~
The Blasphemy Elements erupted at full force. The immense repulsive force that suddenly appeared in the Sacrificial Ground hurled the massive Dragon high into the sky. The Thaumaturgies launched at it by the human Ring Arcanists and Witches after the shield around the Sacrificial Ground vanished were also completely annihilated by that inexplicable repulsive force.
Outlander, you have sensed a Miracle. Outlander, you have sensed Blasphemy.
The ancient gray stone Sacrificial Ground formed three rings—large, medium, and small—centered on its middle. On closer inspection, each ring neatly enclosed the stone Dragon statues within the Sacrificial Ground, forming the central disc, inner ring, middle ring, and outer ring.
They rotated at different speeds, counterclockwise, clockwise, clockwise, and counterclockwise respectively. Shade seemed to hear a click, as though some lock had been opened.
No Dragon dared approach him at that moment, so he breathed another mouthful of crimson toxic mist downward. It was repelled again, and the drifting fog instead forced everyone fighting in the sea around the Sacrificial Ground to flee quickly.
As those rings turned, a Bronze Door bound by thirteen chains appeared in the void