"That was..."
A figure approached Katarina. It was Reg, who had already changed back into a man.
His two long, straight eyebrows rose, and light flickered in his blue eyes.
"That should be another angel."
"He seems to be His Highness's ally."
Katarina's expression remained calm, but fervor lurked in her eyes as she said, "I also saw an angel from the Church of Evernight just now, that Servant of Concealment."
"The forces the Churches have deployed are beyond expectations. It seems they're also determined to eliminate the Demoness Sect and the Rose School here."
Light flickered in Reg's eyes. "Then I'll join the fight too."
"No."
Katarina said, "Go protect that young lady, though I don't think she needs your protection."
Reg shrugged without objecting. His body turned into patches of burning flame and flew out the window.
Just then.
A sudden, deafening rumble erupted in the distant sky.
Lightning flashed there.
Then bolts of silvery-white lightning descended, forming a Lightning Forest.
Katarina glanced in that direction, then turned and went back inside. Her body grew insubstantial and slipped into the mirror.
On the other side of the city.
As Hobbes led numerous Rose School members in a ferocious charge toward the Church of War.
Fierce winds suddenly howled overhead, accompanied by rumbling thunder.
A dazzling expanse of silvery white followed. As though the god of thunder had unleashed his wrath, bolts of lightning struck the ground, crashing into the ranks of the Rose School members.
Lightning exploded at once, and flames splashed everywhere.
Screams and startled cries rang out incessantly.
The Zombies and Ghosts were either blasted apart or turned into black smoke that vanished into the air.
Hobbes raised his head and saw a figure standing in midair amid the wildly flickering silver light.
It was a