He shuddered and trembled as the black mist in the sky peeled away little by little. For the first time, he saw the sky beyond it, saw the stars filling his vision. But those were not stars. They were corpses floating across the heavens, enormous eyes occupying the entire firmament, like an assembly of all the demons of creation.
All of Hell stirred at that moment.
"They... have come..."
He trembled, his face deathly pale.
Lynn said softly:
"They're afraid."
Yet even then, they exchanged no words. The powerful, insubstantial figures that had descended outside Dark Night City began to move. He could see their panic. In that instant, they sought to seal and imprison the entire sky. Some rushed toward the Magic Array, while others spread isolating domains, trying to completely sever the fluctuations connecting them to the world beyond Hell.
They were trembling.
But at that moment, all of them abruptly stopped.
Because they saw Lynn move.
They saw him raise his wrist, saw the pitch-black Ouroboros on his arm, saw the suppressed emotions slowly surging in his eyes.
[Ding! Your resurrection progress has reached 50%!] [Ding! Your resurrection progress has reached 51%!] [Ding! Your resurrection progress has reached 52%!]
The wind blew through the deathly silence.
At that moment.
Under the Night Doctor's trembling gaze, the dozens of terrifying figures outside Dark Night City, the corpses filling the sky, and the grotesque gazes all stopped moving when Lynn revealed the Ouroboros. They trembled, no longer daring to advance.
A breeze brushed Lynn's hair aside, revealing his deathly still eyes.
They quivered. Every one of them saw Lynn's eyes turning blood-red as he stared at them. That aura, so cold it numbed them, lingered around him in dread, just as it had the last time.
That