The night was shadowless and silent.
Boom!
The sound of a body crashing down from the sky.
A moment ago, the Sky Knight Order had been riding atop giant birds, cheering and shouting for victory. Now, as heaven and earth suddenly lost their color and time seemed to freeze, only monotonous black and white remained in their eyes. Then even the simplest thoughts in their souls froze. They and the giant birds beneath them plummeted rigidly, their bodies reduced to a bloody mess when they hit the ground hundreds of meters below.
And this was only the beginning.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom...
Centered on the heart of the Decaying Demon God, thousands of the Grand Duchy's bravest Sky Knight Order members and scholars fell from the sky within a radius of several kilometers.
Even the balloon airships failed to escape the catastrophe.
The energy shield over an airship flickered violently. On its deck, soldiers who had been cheering for victory moments earlier stared in disbelief as a nightmarish scene unfolded in every direction. Their fellow Sky Knight Order members, who had just been celebrating their victory, suddenly began plunging rigidly from the sky in droves.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.
At last, the energy protecting the airship ran out. The soldiers and scholarly advisors on the deck collapsed one after another, their gazes gradually going blank and unfocused, as if nothing mattered anymore.
Mold spread across the wooden deck.
The alloy nails grew thick with rust.
The unconscious soldiers visibly aged, their skin withering before their eyes. Bathed in the waves of decay, they lost several years of their lives in mere seconds!
Even the Sky Fortress, far beyond the mist more than ten kilometers away, was affected.
The scholars at the control consoles cried out in terror. The Energy