On the terrace.
Shion muttered to herself, "Shinji should have heard that, right?"
Hikari nodded. "Don't worry. He heard you."
Sound weakened as it traveled through the air. Under normal circumstances, Shion's shout couldn't reach Shinji from more than ten kilometers away. But once Shinji, a Kekkei Sōra, was involved, there was no such thing as normal.
Shion turned to Hikari. "It's panicking. This time, it's really panicking. I can feel it!"
Hikari nodded. "Yeah, I can feel it too!"
The Plague Overlord's unrestrained invasion showed that Shinji had truly struck at its weak point.
Shion looked at Hikari eagerly. "We're going to win, right?"
Hikari fell silent.
The Plague Overlord was panicking, which did mean that Shinji had seized the key to victory. But it also meant that they—or rather, the entire Six Rings World—would have to face the Plague Overlord's most frenzied counterattack!
Just then, Shinji, guarding the area near Shion's mage tower, narrowed his eyes. Within sight, dozens of beings possessed by the gray-white mist were charging toward him.
Among them were seemingly intelligent mages, enormous magical constructs, and beasts. They surged forward with the force of an army intent on leveling the mage tower behind Shinji in one fell swoop!
Elsewhere.
"Arcane" continued to activate the "Lantern," repairing the spatial barriers that the Plague Overlord had battered into ruin.
A few kilometers away, Shinji hovered in the air, keeping watch over his surroundings.
Suddenly, possessed beings appeared from every direction. "Arcane" paled. "H-how can there be so many?"
Shinji sent his voice through Naobi. "Don't worry. I'll handle it!"
"Understood!"
"Arcane" had complete faith in Shinji. But just as he was about to clear his mind and focus on using the "Lantern" to repair the spatial barriers, he caught sight of something in the corner of