Along with trenches even smaller than the barrier of constructed flames.
Magical girls and monsters...
Re! Sur! Rec! Ted!
"..."
"Huh? We're..."
"Cong Yu, and Shining☆-chan and the others..."
"So you've been with us all along!"
"..." Cong Yu looked at the magical girls and monsters. After quickly grasping the situation, he hid behind the trenches and joined the battle.
Then, Cong Yu looked once more at the Giant Serpent on the horizon.
My magical girls are endless, while your Snake Scales are suffering losses every moment... Even so, are you still just watching calmly?
In response, the Giant Serpent answered with complete indifference.
As though it were merely a background texture beyond the horizon, displaying an unreserved yet ever-present loneliness.
The Time Had Not Yet Come
After the Snake Scales were shattered, the pitch-black darkness wrapped around them vanished. They then turned into tiny black pellets and fell to the ground.
Based on Cong Yu and the others' previous experience...
Those destroyed Snake Scales would remain on the ground, then gradually fade away over the course of roughly a dozen days.
Just like when a wild monster was defeated in an online game and its corpse began disappearing from the ground.
And at this moment, those Snake Scales displayed the very same trait... their remains would vanish.
Whether they were batches of Snake Scales imprisoned and erased by Yaochuan Guang's Black Hollow Seven Bites, reappearing only after they had already been crushed.
Or Snake Scales burned away by Cong Yu's flame barrier or Lantian Zhu's fire attacks, blown apart by Source Severance: Glory...
Or Snake Scales struck by Red's Crimson Crystal attacks after she deployed the Crimson Formation, pierced by Miss Chi You's weapons, or destroyed by Moerae's Faith Power.
No matter how they had been broken.
The remains