The true Falling Star Beast appeared from the starry sky above and to Shade's side. With a collision that was far from dull, the horn of the starlit "rhinoceros" crashed against the sword Shade hastily raised in his hand. The starry sky trembled at that moment, and Shade was sent flying before he even had a chance to steady himself.
His strength could surpass humans and dragons, but the force of a falling star was still beyond what he could contend with.
Quite a few people saw Shade get blasted away, but fearing that rashly catching him would violate the restriction that only three people could fight the Falling Star Beast, they allowed him to fly nearly five hundred meters before he crashed heavily onto the shallow water.
Before he could spring back up, he scattered into Crimson Moon butterflies to evade the beam shooting from the Ring Beast's horn. The butterflies then flew back toward the enormous beast.
Meanwhile, beside the Ring Beast, Mr. Mortis and Stella did not retreat.
After smashing Shade away and realizing that long-range attacks could not hit him, the beast passed through the phantom-like Mr. Mortis, but the spike on its tail stabbed precisely toward him.
Joker knew that spike would strike his real body behind the curtain, so he immediately flung out a sphere. With a bang, the sphere exploded into smoke, and he vanished into it.
The tail spike pierced the ground with a still-light sound. The rapidly charging Falling Star Beast used the force of its tail to halt its advance, then, with all four limbs lifted off the ground, swung the tail embedded in the earth and lightly spun its body once in midair, as weightless as its body and feathers.
But when its four limbs landed again, the ground