Miya?!
Kroya's first reaction was to look at the Ring of Radiance behind him.
But the Ring of Radiance, along with the Void God's power, had been completely blocked by a precisely measured force. Clearly, this was the work of the woman before him who called herself "Miya."
There was neither too much nor too little of that power. Her control was exquisitely precise.
Its complexity was comparable to carving the entire Semrio Continent onto an elemental particle-that was how absurd it was.
"Don't be so nervous."
The woman who called herself Miya wore a simple white robe, with only a blood-red stone at her chest, set in gold.
"Oh, this is the Philosopher's Stone."
"You could call it my Godhead as a Sage."
Miya noticed Kroya's gaze and beckoned with a smile.
The primordial gold Kroya had always carried suddenly appeared in the woman's palm. She stroked the gold and sighed.
"Ah."
"It broke in the end. Only the gold is left."
The gold seemed to tremble in her hand. This gold of creation, which should have had no life, was trembling.
Sage Miya patted the stone, and it immediately settled down. Then she looked at Kroya.
"The Ring of Radiance told you about the Philosopher's Stone, didn't she? Hmm... then remember what I'm about to tell you."
Without waiting for Kroya to answer, she continued, "The Void Luminary Ark was an amplifier created at the cost of my soul and the Philosopher's Stone, capable of unleashing the Ring of Radiance's infinite power."
"To reverse that process, you need to collect all the Ark's fragments, then refine them through a magic array... look, an array like this!"
She picked up a twig and drew on the ground. Kroya had no idea how she did it, but within seconds, an