It failed to approach the mass of flesh immediately, because the clattering of chains rose amid the sound of the waves. Black chains shot from the darkness behind it and firmly shackled its tail.
Shade openly revealed his position and stepped out, with Miss Reinhart naturally following at his side. Shade shouted at the Church's group:
"Are you insane? With its ability to absorb things, have you considered the consequences of letting it touch that mass of flesh?"
The chains bearing eight Great Sin Runes could now affect even an Ancient Evil Spirit in its normal state, yet that snake seemed to possess no desires at all and was completely unaffected.
It violently shook its tail free of the chains, then turned its head and fired deadly white light at the two behind it. But as the Night Curtain Seal unfolded, the white light capable of melting everything was instead dissolved into the night. The Night Curtain Seal was a thaumaturgy born from Shade's "Miracle of Day-Night Conversion" after the Moon Bay Incident, specifically designed to counter unusual light.
When the night curtain vanished, the giant snake had already darted before Shade and Miss Reinhart with astonishing agility. The flames spat by the burning serpent were blocked by an ice wall summoned by the witch, and when the giant snake shattered that wall, Claire Reinhart felt as though a meteor had suddenly fallen from overhead to land beside her.
When she turned to look, she saw two enormous hands descending from above, pinning the snake's head firmly to the ground.
Looking more closely, the man beside her had somehow become a five-meter-tall giant. He bent down and used both hands to clamp the giant serpent to the ground, utterly ignoring how its tail lashed at his arms.
"Be careful, it