After the Fate Impact ended a little after four in the afternoon, relic riots and frequent Infinite Snake incidents indeed occurred again, just like last time. Last time, it had only been Fatumonst Island; this time, the scope of the incidents had spread across the entire Starfall Bay region.
The Great Witches went to deal with the problems in various places according to plan, while Bella and Vanessa led people into the city to confirm the current situation with the Church.
Shade remained aboard the ship, but Sylvia soon received an urgent message from Bella and went into the city to help. Ten minutes later, however, the black-haired Great Space Witch returned:
"Shade, you need to come with me. Something big has happened."
She brought Shade to the eastern side of the city, where several of the island's few patches of farmland lay. This was Fatumonst Island's most important local food-producing area.
After Sylvia brought him through a Teleportation Gate, Shade detected traces of a large-scale ritual from afar:
"An illusion ritual and a spatial isolation ritual?"
"This way."
Snow was still falling, and the Church's forces had already sealed off the area. The winter fields seemed to stretch endlessly, but under the ritual's concealment, the distant world looked hazy and indistinct.
Vanessa and Bella were waiting for them there. The three Great Witches and Shade followed Miss Ingram, the Nightmare Witch of the Nature Church, toward the depths of the farmland.
Remembering that this lady was friends with Sister Devlin, Shade had originally wanted to tell her that the nun would not be appearing anytime soon. Instead, the lady with green leaf earrings asked him:
"God Summoner, during last summer's Battle of Moon Bay, you used a peculiar Mystic Lock—a world filled with swirling yellow sand. At the Battle