The world at the edge of life and death created by the Angel Level Relic Veil of Obscurity was nowhere near as terrifying as Life and Death Limbo, and was even somewhat inferior to an ordinary Edge of Life and Death. This was most likely due to Sister Devlin's suppression of its power.
Shade answered beneath that completely black sky:
"This world needs to be closer to death before I can make the half-submerged Silver Moon appear as a phantom. Don't discuss that for now. The Lover of Desire here seems to carry another destiny."
The world where life and death met naturally affected the living as well. Although the Ring Arcanists here were generally of high rank, Shade still needed to keep an eye on Ellie's condition.
However, Ellie had merely seemed somewhat uncomfortable with this world at first. Now that the relic's effects had stabilized, she shone with pure white light from head to toe, standing majestically behind Shade as though she were preparing to accomplish something momentous.
And after gathering enough shadows from the seabed, that enormous Mermaid shadow finally broke through the water after the Ring Arcanists had assembled.
There should not have been any weather changes here, yet black raindrops came pattering down at that moment. Even though this world suppressed all sound, when that twenty-meter-tall "Mermaid" stood beneath the pure black Night Curtain, its furious shriek still made Shade's ears ache.
The "Mermaid" was nowhere near as beautiful as Shade had imagined. The fish-tail portion of its entire lower body had completely rotted away, and beneath the festering sores and corpse spots, ghastly white bones could even be faintly seen.
As for its human upper body, although no clothing covered it, there was nothing alluring about it either. Filthy, foul black snake scales were