Interception

"You're in a hurry. Let's go."

"Screech!"

Whoosh—

Mo Bai patted Nue beneath him, and they turned back the way they had come.

Aemeath had flown back quickly. At their current speed, he and Nue would probably fall quite a distance behind her.

But going all out to catch up would drain more of his strength.

Remembering Singulum's sudden attack, Mo Bai decided it was better to be cautious.

After all, who knew whether they might run into another enemy along the way...

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

"Hm?"

While Mo Bai was thinking, a mass of black mud suddenly surged up from below him and Nue.

"Screech!"

Fortunately, there wasn't too much of the strange stuff. Nue only had to climb a little higher to avoid it.

"Something else born from Aleph-1?" Mo Bai murmured, raising an eyebrow.

After seeing a monster like the Voidworm, he suspected any bizarre-looking thing might be a Threnodian's creation.

But the chaotic frequencies coming from the black mud reminded Mo Bai of something else.

The Chimera beside Gabriella.

He had heard that Rinascita's native Threnodian had forcibly fused and transformed it into that form.

But Mo Bai remembered the Academy's records saying Rinascita's Threnodian had vanished completely.

Whoosh—

"Hm?"

Just then, Mo Bai noticed an Otherworldly Flower drifting down beside him.

No, there wasn't just one. They surrounded him.

"Time to get out of here."

Whoosh!

At Mo Bai's command, Nue carried him swiftly out of the area.

Both the black mud below and the Otherworldly Flowers around him felt dangerous.

Hum—

But just as Mo Bai cleared the sea of flowers in the sky, he heard music playing in his ear.

Mo Bai immediately dismissed Nue and dropped toward the ground.

The red Otherworldly Flowers had begun chasing him when the music started, moving