The group continued approaching the evil thing, but Miss Feliana did not follow. Instead, she hovered where she was and observed the surroundings.
With such thorough preparations, she had never believed they would lose this battle. What worried her now was that after [Life] perished, the being waiting at the end would immediately appear. Facing a god in this state, she truly had no confidence at all.
But once the four of them had drawn close enough to the evil thing, the monster that had been lying motionless on the ground suddenly broke free of the moonlight's restraints. Its once-dull eyes were now filled with Wisdom. It opened its mouth and swallowed Shade, who had arrived before it, then dodged the thaumaturgical attacks of the other three witches and turned into a mass of dusky yellow light that flew into the distance.
"Damn it! Though the aging of life means the withering of the body, it also means the accumulation of Wisdom! This thing had been preparing a trap all along. Hurry after it!"
The anxious Gina and Old Madam Gustav immediately chased after it into the mist. That dusky yellow glow was quite conspicuous, so there was no need to worry about losing it. Miss Bladewei, whose face was streaked with tears and snot from crying, also wanted to chase after it. Then she noticed the petite puppet following behind her at an unhurried pace.
"Miss Feliana, aren't you worried about him?"
"What is there to worry about? He can sense Life Energy, so he must have seen through the trap long ago. He probably also noticed during your battle just now that, for [Life], the inside is far more fragile than the outside."
The petite puppet smiled.
"Look, he's making his move."
In the mist, dense crimson translucent