Sure enough, what they feared most had happened.
After Eve and the Colossus, Silver Fantasy had also been attacked. In just these few short days, she was already the third Origin in Dark Night City to suffer an attack by that black-robed figure.
"Be careful."
Silver Fantasy kept her eyes closed, electrical sparks constantly bursting from all over her body.
She refused to let herself look into Sir Awen's eyes, doing everything she could to make herself appear severely damaged.
"He's not Lynn."
And right after she said those words...
The glowing traces on her body rapidly dimmed. With her body so severely damaged, she lost consciousness, and everything before her went black.
"Miss Machine Intelligence!"
Everyone shouted.
Bzzzt-
A shrill ring sounded as a blade left its sheath.
Above the Divine Temple in the center of Dark Night City, a Twelve Wings Archangel blazed with roaring flames, a burning blade in her hand. Killing intent swept through her eyes. Without a word, she transformed that terrifying blade into an immense golden sword that blotted out the sky, pointing straight at the black-robed figure within the enormous rift.
Rumble-
The thunderous sound of space tearing apart accompanied a massive rift opening across the sky.
They knew their Matriarch had truly been enraged.
The power unleashed by this strike almost far surpassed that of her strike during the Ether War. The killing intent within it made them feel as though they were witnessing the descent of a Killing Angel.
But just as that sword was about to pierce the rift where the black-robed figure stood...
Whoosh-
The enormous spatial rift vanished above Dark Night City like a bubble in water.
Only the black-robed figure's utterly unperturbed voice echoed in everyone's ears.
"As expected, Dark Night City's reputation is nothing but empty