Boom!
Dozens of tentacles slammed into the great tree, splitting its thick trunk apart. It crashed to the ground.
But the next instant, the tree seemed to rewind, returning step by step to its original form.
"Is this the Evil Lady Reiko spoke of?" The little girl stood on the tree's main trunk, gazing gravely at the enormous Shoggoth. "It truly is an Evil unlike anything I've ever seen!"
She pressed two fingers of her right hand together and lightly touched the space between her brows.
"Barrier!"
In an instant, a translucent circular Barrier enveloped the tree. The tentacles that reached out to destroy it again began to corrode as soon as they touched the Barrier, as though drenched in concentrated acid.
By the time the tentacles passed through the Barrier, they had lost all vitality before they could touch the tree. They lay limp on the ground.
Meanwhile, in the conference room at United Nations Headquarters in the United States, someone skilled at lip-reading repeated what she had said.
Lady Reiko? High Priestess Reiko of the Eastern Isles?
Confusion spread across the faces in the conference room. Had that legendary Supernatural intervened? But could she do it? It wasn't that they thought she was incapable. So many Supernaturals had already been trapped in there, including some with reputations every bit as formidable as High Priestess Reiko's.
If even they had been trapped, could she really succeed?
But the moment the Prime Minister of the Eastern Isles heard Reiko's name, he perked up, a delighted smile spreading across his face.
There was hope.
The priests had said High Priestess Reiko was a High Priestess the Eastern Isles saw only once in three thousand years. Her Spiritual Power was unmatched in all of history.
More importantly, High Priestess Reiko served Amenominakanushi