Golden Nightmare (2)

With a flick of her finger, Cyrabelle swept her psychic senses across a ten-kilometer radius. A translucent map appeared before Green.

Green memorized it quickly. Combining it with what he had seen of the terrain when he entered this Spatial World, he soon pinpointed his location.

A golden dot marked the Bridge control center of the Golden Nightmare. Green's task was to get there as quickly as possible and seize control of the ship.

"The Ruen People think they've planned for everything. They brought out the Golden Nightmare, hid the White Dragon Sisonawa in the Spirit World, and planned to strike while I was fighting the Rebels. I'll turn their scheme against them. The ship and the White Dragon are mine." Cyrabelle passed Green the map, then waved her Magic Staff. A vast surge of Magic Power formed an enormous Magic Circle behind her, more than ten meters across.

Six Spell Circles around its edge rotated in opposite directions. Inside, a hexagram overlapped an octagon, and a huge Portal opened at the center.

Green looked up from below and immediately recognized it as a more advanced summoning spell.

Sure enough, a thunderous boom sounded an instant later as a colossal female statue, visible only from the waist up, surged through the Portal.

Even its upper half stood more than twenty meters tall. White from head to toe, it looked carved from white jade. But its face, which should have been beautiful, was twisted into a savage snarl. Its eyes bulged, and its gaping mouth showed two rows of sharp, piranha-like teeth. It gripped a Short Sword and a round shield, both wreathed in golden light. This was the statue of Akaliuose, the legendary Valkyrie.

Green stared up at it, stunned. Cyrabelle might be a mage who looked like a soft,