The original contents of the dark, damp burial chamber had been cleared away. A massive stone bed, assembled from thirteen stone coffins, stood at the very deepest part of the chamber. A five-meter-tall woman sat upon it, cradling something in her arms, while curtains woven from illusory golden gauze blocked people from peering inside.
That illusory curtain did not merely create a barrier in the spatial sense; it also divided reality from the void. The woman behind it seemed to exist and yet not exist. The effects brought about by the "Mother" event had clearly not vanished.
Hundreds of ash urns were densely arranged around the stone bed. Besides those, more than a dozen figures knelt within the burial chamber, seemingly praying toward that towering female figure.
The lighting here was exceedingly dim. Only white candles of varying heights stood among the ash urns surrounding the stone bed. The figure behind the illusory golden curtain also glowed faintly. Though it was likewise golden light, the feeling this scene gave Shade was entirely different from the Divine Abode on the second floor of the Temple in the Swamp of Oblivion.
"Blasphemer!"
Miss Eden shouted and leaped into the air above the burial chamber. As two pairs of pure white wings spread behind her, a golden illusory halo symbolizing the Angel Bloodline appeared directly above her head. She looked enraged by the scene before her.
Golden Thunder boomed through the empty underground tomb chamber. The figures kneeling on the floor tried to stop them, but Emilia swung the Ocarina of Time in her hand, freezing spacetime. Every figure froze solid. Then the angel's Golden Thunder struck the golden curtain, only to dissipate without a trace alongside the lullaby hummed by the towering figure behind it.
Other than Luvia, whom Shade had asked