"Embodiment of Bodro's Catastrophe, Black Despair, Favored of Affliction and Disease, great Catherine."
Sensing the change in the atmosphere outside, the high-ranking member of the Demoness Sect immediately prayed to the Black Saint, Catherine.
As soon as the prayer ended.
Katarina felt the ground tremble slightly, as though an earthquake were about to strike Backlund and a catastrophe were about to descend.
Soon, the howling wind outside abruptly stopped.
Then even the faint tremors disappeared.
A few seconds passed.
The windowpanes in the room where the Demonesses stood suddenly took on an unfathomable depth. Invisible ripples spread through them, as though they had become passages connecting to another world.
A figure leaped silently out of one of these "passages," landed on the floor, and took on a tangible form.
It was a woman wearing an elaborate black dress. She wore a ribboned hat fashionable among the nobility, with a thin black veil that partially obscured her face.
Yet the endearing face beneath the veil remained visible.
Golden hair, fair skin, and eyes as green as emeralds.
This beautiful woman was none other than the Black Saint, Catherine.
The moment she appeared, she looked toward Trissy.
But just then, a figure appeared in the bedroom doorway. He took out a silver-and-black jewelry box inlaid with various gemstones.
He promptly opened its second tier.
The three-tiered jewelry box, silver-and-black and inlaid with a variety of gemstones, was swiftly opened, revealing the scene inside its second tier.
It was pitch-black within. Even the surrounding walls seemed to merge into that darkness, giving the impression that it had neither boundaries nor a bottom.
A moment later, countless brilliant specks lit up in the darkness, as though it had become a miniature starry sky, a miniature universe.
These brilliant points of light spun rapidly, changing