Above the Sky Screen, after Stelle rescued Mimi, she stared at the amber radiating scorching flames, her face full of confusion.
Just then, Calypso, who had vanished earlier, appeared before everyone once more.
She slowly began to explain:
"This is a remnant of the Titan of Romance's Core Flame."
Not only that, she revealed a startling truth to everyone—Calypso was actually Sersis, the Titan of Reason!
Everyone instantly understood. So they had already met the real Sersis long ago.
All the twists and turns they had encountered along the way had been trials Sersis set for Stelle, Castorice, and the others.
Stelle, Castorice, and the others wanted to take Sersis's Core Flame away.
However, Sersis had long since divided the Core Flame into three parts.
One was hidden inside this scorching amber, one was within the flower in Stelle's hand, and the last was inside Anaxa's shell.
Now, only by finding Anaxa and piecing the three parts of the Core Flame back together might they have a way to save him.
Meanwhile, the Grove of Epiphany was being ravaged by a Black-Clad Swordsman.
The Black-Clad Swordsman was incomparably powerful. Only if Sersis assembled the three portions of the Core Flame into a complete one and regained all the power of a Titan would there be any way to fight him.
And Stelle, Castorice, and the others had to buy enough time for Sersis!
The Black-Clad Swordsman who had forced so many scholars of the Grove of Epiphany to evacuate was undoubtedly unfathomably powerful.
Yet, in order to retrieve the Core Flame and work with Sersis to defeat the Black-Clad Swordsman—
Castorice, Stelle, and Trianne still turned back without hesitation, resolutely stepping into that perilous battlefield to support Anaxa.
Before they even reached the main battlefield, they saw dense stretches of