Storm Above (Bonus Chapter)

Whoosh.

On the collapsed platform, the airflow began rotating clockwise, gradually picking up speed until it formed a tornado. This wind dragon sucked in all the surrounding flames, filling every inch of the wind column.

The Monster stood within its eye.

Sifa looked over and saw dragon-scale-like plates emerging across the charred skin of the woman whose chest was missing on one side. The flames soon heated those scales until they glowed red, while invisible wind blades sliced across her body, scraping the scales with shrill screeches, sending sparks flying and stripping them from her surface.

She desperately resisted the damage from the wind blades and flames, and somehow seemed capable of surviving both.

This was the ability of a "Rose Bishop." Beyonders of this Sequence could use Flesh Magic, including regenerating their bodies.

And she began to strike back.

She raised one arm toward Miller. That arm suddenly shot out like a cannonball, tearing through the flames and whirlwind and arriving before Bishop Miller almost instantly.

The bishop's priestly robe abruptly billowed outward. A violent gale slammed forward like a wall, blocking the arm and causing it to explode in midair. Countless chunks of flesh splattered across the ground, poured over the gold artifacts, and struck the pillars, corroding bloody holes into everything they touched.

The corrosion rapidly spread outward from those spots!

"Roldo!"

Hearing Miller's shout, Roldo raised the Blade of Spirituality without hesitation. It had already been turned to the "3" mark and was currently operating beyond its limit. Painful mutterings rang in Roldo's ears, but he endured them as he used the ability of the spirit within the blade.

All its abilities!

The thick-lipped captain of the Mandated Punishers rapidly swelled in size, transforming into a giant two or three meters tall. A pair of enormous