(Ceruno)
I had promised not to use it again... yet I had willingly undergone Crystallization once more.
Power welling up from deep within the Earth surged through my body. My hair turned fluffy and azure again, and my compatibility with Earth Crystal had already crossed the red line. My consciousness and soul were drawing ever closer to Earth's Will...
Miss Ice Dragon looked grim, though.
Dad... didn't want me using this power.
The end awaiting a "Star Guardian" was to become a patch for Earth Crystal, a future she was desperate to avoid.
But to save Miluno, that was a price I could accept.
To better receive that power, I lent my body to Miss Terra.
She merely stood there, yet the energy of Earth's Will provoked a reaction from Miluno's black cocoon-countless crystal spikes of rejection sprouted from its surface, firing wildly like missiles.
Miss Terra raised a defensive bubble, but those "black crystal missiles" veered off course.
It was Phoenix...
She changed the missiles' trajectories, but when they landed in the surrounding Commercial District, they erupted in a chain of flames with black and white reversed-the Supreme Council's weapons used black crystal shells like these, too.
Although the first wave of missiles had been dealt with, the resistance the "great will" mounted to descend into the world did not end there. A black mire spread outward from Miluno's cocoon, with impassable black flames still roiling above it.
Well, there was the hostility we needed.
But now Xiaoling couldn't get close, either.
Although "Decomposer" didn't require direct contact to work, she still had to get within a certain range. With this flaming black mire in the way, separating Miluno's heart was out of the question.
An icy path rose over the mire, but before anyone could step onto it,