Before the Throne in the Deep Sea hall.
Lynn's gaze slowly grew serious. He sat cross-legged before the Throne and said:
"Take your time. Tell me exactly what happened."
Azephala's gaze was deep. She sat alone in the Endless Black Shoal, surrounded on all sides by boundless water. The enormous Trident stood embedded before her, and long tentacles writhed and spread beneath her skirt.
The Trident's faint whispers sounded in her ears once again.
"This is what the Trident told me..."
She recounted, little by little, what she had experienced after leaving Dark Night City.
Several months earlier.
After leaving Dark Night City, she had followed that faint sensation westward. After evading several attacks by monsters of the Dark World, she finally arrived at this endless expanse of sea.
Although her strength could hardly be considered top-tier.
In the ocean, her own home ground, she had managed to evade all sorts of dangers with ease.
Finally, after a long time.
She reached the place where her god had fallen.
"I didn't know what had happened then, either. Not long after I found my god, I felt a tremendous upheaval sweep through the entire sea. It was as though a hole had been torn in the sky, and I saw that Black Eye."
She lifted her head as she recounted what had happened that day.
And with just one glance.
She had nearly broken down outright, her soul damaged. Without her god's protection, she might have died in those waters that day.
But she was far from the only one.
Countless creatures had died throughout the sea that day. All they had done was look up at the sky once, and they had collapsed on the spot, their bodies and souls destroyed. Their corpses littered the entire sea.
At that moment,