Rumble!
The thunder kept roaring.
After taking the combined assault of flames and lightning, the translucent black velvet "curtain" abruptly curled into a ball and fell inside the castle.
The flames and lightning met no further resistance.
One surged upward from below.
The other descended from above.
Flames and lightning intertwined.
They engulfed the ancient castle completely.
Rumble.
Towers collapsed, and halls shattered.
Under this double assault, one marionette after another proved as fragile as an illusion.
They instantly blackened and cracked, turning to ash.
By the time the underground "volcano" stopped erupting and the silvery light illuminating the mountains subsided,
Dark Demon Wolf Kotar's castle had been reduced to ruins, with clusters of crimson flames burning in many places.
At the bottom of a deep pit,
the demon wolf covered in short, dark fur emerged.
With the help of three "Druid" marionettes, he had successfully hidden underground and left the castle's grounds before the flames could scorch his rear.
The independent "kingdom" created by the "curtain" had now collapsed completely.
But the wish the Dark Demon Wolf had made had yet to fade entirely. His divinity would take some time to return.
Just then,
the Dark Demon Wolf's spiritual intuition stirred, and he saw a vision: having just climbed out of the pit, his body suddenly stiffened, as though he had become a toy.
Then he and the three marionettes beside him abruptly vanished.
The pit he stood in mysteriously disappeared along with them.
The scene of that pit appeared in the first level of a silver-and-black jewelry box.
The "Box of the Great Old Ones."
The one holding this jewelry box now was a Sequence 3 "Scholar of Yore."
He had already located the first level of this Sealed Artifact.
And transferred the scene containing the demon wolf