Ash had no reply. He asked again, "Then is Nether Devil going to be fine?"
"She'll be affected, but not as severely as you." Mirror Demon looked up at the black-and-white Sixfold Hell. "Right now, the entire hell has fallen into the Fading Calamity, and Nether Devil is no exception. But this is large-scale area damage, while you are the chief culprit who personally destroyed the concept of spellcasters. What you're suffering is a high-precision single-target attack... Nether Devil's fading speed is probably only one-thousandth of yours, but in order to let her retain the ability to move, the Source Crystals she consumes each second are about the same as yours."
"Can't we fly? Or use a Miracle—"
"Almost impossible. You can understand it like this: the current Sixfold Hell is an Artificer Exclusion Zone. Anything related to the concept of spellcasters will rapidly fade. Just maintaining the existence of you two is already violently consuming the accumulation we built up over countless years."
Ash did his utmost to stir his nearly stagnant thoughts and asked softly, "Only the Sixfold Hell? The Fading Calamity won't spread outside?"
"Not for now," Mirror Demon said. "Starry Sky and the others did one thing right: they completely sealed off hell. For Ouroboros, this kind of seal would sooner or later be found and broken through by it. But for the Fading Calamity formed by the sympathetic detonation of the spellcaster concept, although it can also destroy the entire world, and even trace upward along the Gilded River to continue Ouroboros's undertaking, continuing to destroy all spellcaster civilizations... it truly has no self-awareness, and really can be blocked inside the Sixfold Hell."
What was blocked inside the Sixfold Hell was not only the calamity, but also them.
"So," Ash looked at the melting gray-white