Red That Pierced the Darkness
In the night, as Guts strode toward the village that had previously suspected them, preparing to reassure the villagers and have them send people here as soon as possible to care for and escort away the rescued women and children, and as the green-haired little witch Schierke continued racking her brains over the excessively terrifying spell she had cast, unable to make sense of it, the old witch Flora, who had been reading in a recliner inside the Spirit Tree Manor in another forest not far away, naturally saw the same scene.
After all, that dense forest was not far from the Spirit Tree Forest. Otherwise, those villagers would not have repeatedly tried to send people to seek her help in driving away the Beast Apostles.
Thus, since the witch Flora had not gone to sleep for certain reasons, she looked up and naturally saw the horrifying scene on the horizon: that area had instantly become a sea of flames, while orange-red firelight directly dyed a huge stretch of the night sky a bright, terrifying red.
At the same time, she saw an enormous fire dragon rolling and roaring above that sea of flames on the horizon. It kept flying into the sky before smashing violently into the ground, creating a strange and astonishing spectacle.
What Witch Flora could not understand was that, at that moment, it had already successfully turned the several-kilometer-wide forest into a huge lava lake and hell of flames. No person or "abnormal being" could possibly still survive, yet it still had no intention of stopping. It continued rampaging across the land with orange-red magical flames, stirring the lava lake until it boiled.
And inside the Spirit Tree Manor, there was one more person who had seen that horrifying sight!
Of