Vaporization! Expansion!

"The lord's Immortal Divine Fire is coming down!!"

At the very heart of Water Gate City, countless ordinary citizens looked up.

Their eyes brimmed with tears and despair.

Now they widened, reflecting the vast black curtain high above.

Immortal Amaterasu Black Flames.

They became ten thousand black serpents and plunged violently from millions of miles above.

Black fire vaporized the water.

The black Divine Fire.

It was like.

A vast, indestructible iron net that caught the onrushing torrent of countless tons.

It wrapped the flood tight and swallowed it whole.

All that water.

Before the black flames' heat, which reached tens of thousands of degrees.

Was forcibly boiled away and purified by the Divine Fire in midair.

The flood vanished into steam.

"This... this is impossible!!"

"My lake fed by the earth's veins... burned into white vapor in an instant!!"

Old Miklotov knelt on the stone road, his face drained of color.

His aged eyes.

Nearly burst from their sockets in utter shock.

"My heavens... this is the power of a god..."

"The lord... saved us all..."

The citizens kept striking their foreheads against the ground.

In the sky.

The raging torrent, hundreds of thousands of tons strong and enough to destroy a metropolis.

In a single instant.

Was completely vaporized by the extreme heat.

Not.

So much as a speck of moisture remained. Not a drop of black water fell.

In its place.

Rings of dense, warm white vapor spread across the Royal Capital.

Steam filled the air.

Water Gate City found peace again beneath that undying white mist.

"Damn it! That black fire... it's coming for us!"

In the ruins, Capella shrieked and tried to retreat.

Her pink dress was already soaked through with cold sweat.

"No! This princess is immortal!"

Beside her, Sirius frantically swung