With a soft hum, rings of pure silver light spread outward one after another.
When Silver Moon's radiance touched those gray Time Stop zones, the fishmen and water ghosts frozen within seemed as though they had been scalded by hot oil. Their bodies continuously rotted away until chunks of flesh melted into foul-smelling pus, leaving only skeletons behind.
Yet some water ghosts and fishmen barely maintained their normal forms beneath the cleansing moonlight. Even so, they could not break free from those murky Time Stop domains.
Although Shade had closed his eyes, his senses were not impaired. Thus, while continuously casting his spell, he heard the blonde "sorceress" warn him:
"More things are coming. I can feel it. The power of calamity—snakes are slithering this way."
"It's fine. You don't have a Serpent's Shedding, so don't act rashly. Help me protect Ellie. Grace, Helen, clear the area first."
"Yes, sir!"
Large swarms of Red Butterflies surged from Shade's shadow like ocean tides. But Adele Isabella took a closer look and noticed a familiar ring of silver along the edges of their wings.
The Red Butterflies spread in every direction across the island, then were all detonated amid a chilling, eerie girl's laughter.
Red Mist carrying powerful curses, deathly corrosion, and the force of Space Cutting seeped throughout the entire sea. After precisely avoiding the snakes lurking beneath the water, it dissolved every enemy hidden in the black waves into crimson seawater.
The Red Mist drifted around Shade. At that moment, the shadow beneath the moon did not take his own form, but that of a pair of sisters holding hands. Though she knew whose power it was, the Thirteenth Order Great Witch still found the sight incomparably horrifying.
The appearance of the Red Mist expanded Shade's sensory range. Combined with