The other side could absorb light.
A voice in his ear reminded him.
"What pure red moonlight~"
The glowing figure spoke, its own radiance turning into chains that coiled toward Shade. At that very moment, the previously overlooked young lady finally made her move at the most opportune time:
"Curse—Slow Spell!"
The mist and light stiffened for less than a second. In that second, the card from Shade's pocket had already stuck itself to him:
"Calamity Cards—Darkness Art!"
Thick darkness directly enveloped Shade and the figure. A few short seconds later, the darkened area dispersed. Only Shade, holding a card, remained standing where he was.
He did not lower his guard. Instead, he turned to look at the figure that had reappeared beside Mr. Ronan at the far end of the bridge. The other party's aura had not weakened in the slightest, but he praised him nonetheless:
"I had thought that in this glowing dense fog, as long as my 'Radiance Avatar' did not encounter a Twelfth Ring, it would have almost no rivals among Thirteenth Rings. I never expected this kind of all-destroying darkness to seem even purer than my light, even more twisted than the light within this fog. Perhaps I really have become somewhat arrogant lately."
He did not believe he had already lost. Instead, he warned Shade and Matilda:
"Next, I'll use some very powerful thaumaturgy. Please be careful."
The figure then scattered through the mist again. After only a moment's hesitation, Shade looked up at the sky.
Spirit guided the mist into tidal surges, as though all the light near the bridge were being drawn upward and condensed into the sky.
The light condensed into a sphere, which rapidly turned egg-shaped. Before the Thunder Spear Shade threw could strike that "Light Egg," the dragon of