A dazzling light bloomed in Kalki's golden eyes.
"That is the territory of an Absolute Domain Holder. There, he can display all of his power."
The Wolf God spoke those highly tempting words in an exceedingly calm tone.
"Wouldn't you consider casting aside all your attachments and fighting your enemy to the death?"
Kalki looked at the Wolf God, then at the girl beside him. After pondering for a long while, he slowly spoke.
"Can you let me see that place for myself?"
"Of course." The Wolf God gave a precise reply.
In the lowest level of the City of Blazing Flames' palace, amid the sea of stars.
Deep beneath the palace, as though at the bottom of the underworld. In a place untouched by light or sound, an evil dragon, white all over and possessing wings so distorted they looked incapable of having undergone normal evolution, suddenly raised its head. The chains binding its entire body clattered and swayed.
Yet that movement did not grant it any further freedom.
Nails that looked like organic matter pierced through the evil dragon's wings, spine, shoulders, and limbs. Though they had inflicted horrifying wounds, an unknown power restrained the malicious blood from flowing out.
That was Humanity's Final Trial. Goetia, a candidate for the Evil of Humanity, had been made into gifts and split into seventy-two Demon God Pillars. Though they were human heroes with pitiable spiritual ranks, Goetia's status was extremely high. He had become seventy-two wedges, pinning Zoroastrianism's Demon Dragon firmly within this palace.
Under such circumstances, even the slightest movement would reopen its wounds and make it feel pain beyond ordinary imagination.
Yet that was irrelevant. The evil dragon, which felt pain whenever it moved, bared its fangs in a savage smile.
Though it was difficult to make