A Head-On Clash

Southern Ridge, Void Realm, where Rosy Glow City stood, beneath Silverpeak.

This place was wreathed in brilliant rainbow light, a land blessed by happiness, order, and peace.

It was said that during the Pre-Epoch Civilization, the Void Realm of every great city had scenery like heaven itself. But on present-day Terra, most cities were overlaid with a pale gray filter, representing a suffocating kind of order.

Rosy Glow City was different. Its radiance flowed and gleamed, carrying a joy that made people yearn for it.

And within this gathering brilliance, with Adalbert's soul as its core, a vast, blurry yet luminous phantom gradually rose, propping up heaven and earth.

This phantom was intricately formed from layer upon layer of rippling water, yet it churned endlessly like an aurora. For some reason, it instinctively brought to mind a colossal whale roaming the seven seas, or a roc whose wings blanketed heaven and earth.

But in the end, it condensed into a giant. A Giant of Light, forged entirely from radiance!

A corona wreathed the giant's body as it descended from Silverpeak. Only half its body had been forged; even the unconscious yearning and faith of everyone across the Southern Ridge could not make it manifest completely—but even with only its upper body formed and its lower half wavering like an illusion, it stood over one hundred and fifty meters tall, like a true mountain.

The giant raised its head. Its eyes, like swirling galactic rivers, stared into the profound darkness in the distance as blazing fury burned within its body.

It roared, but that roar rang like a great bell. Visible sound waves spread outward in rolling layers like ocean tides, while the giant stepped forward and hurled a fist at the demon army sheltered by the Cursed Earth upon the