A green beam of light, like a bolt of lightning, burst from the Staff of Solomon held in Yukine Chris's hands and struck the sky. Then everyone saw the deep-blue sky tear open like a rag, revealing countless Noise and bizarre structures on the other side that looked exactly like alien buildings—this wasn't a treasure vault at all, but another plane!
"So many..."
Looking at the densely packed, virtually countless monsters on the other side, everyone's expression changed dramatically. Noise attacked humans quite often, but with the opening of the treasure vault's gates, people were seeing their numbers directly for the first time—they were as numerous as the stars in the sky!
Could they really defeat these monsters and win? With so many Noise, humanity was no match for them. Could this all have been a mistake, with extinction as their ultimate fate? If so, what meaning was there in all their struggles?
For a moment, an emotion called despair rose from the depths of everyone's hearts. The blonde woman raised both hands proudly and burst into laughter.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Do you see now, fools? This is the fate brought about by your arrogance and conceit! The Noise will be completely unleashed, and humanity will perish as a result!"
"Oh."
Duanmu Huai answered flatly.
"What's wrong? Have you finally despaired enough to lose your mind?"
The blonde woman looked at Duanmu Huai smugly and laughed. She knew how powerful he was, of course, but she had absolute confidence that he was no match for her. After all, in the previous era, no matter how powerful Duanmu Huai had been, he had merely exterminated a group of evil dragons and Upper Dragons, even if he had nearly beaten her to death at the time. That had only happened because she had known