Without a moment's hesitation, Aivier changed direction and retraced their route.
A few minutes later, they appeared at the edge of the Sea of Mists.
"We're back?"
The Self-Binding Angel breathed rapidly.
The Sea of Mists ahead was unchanged from when they had left. The traces left by Aivier's transformation into a dragon were still there, proving this was where they had stopped before.
If they could return, that meant they probably weren't trapped in some spatial anomaly.
But why?
Why couldn't they approach that blood moon?
That was their destination-the site of the castle that had once belonged to the Demon Lord on the First Abyss Plane.
Aivier beat her wings, her blue eyes fathomless, and said:
"Looks like this journey really won't be peaceful. Something that can even deceive me? Now I really want to see what's up ahead!"
She soared into the sky, once again carrying Lynn and the Self-Binding Angel toward the blood moon.
Back in the Sea of Mists.
She had also been affected by the illusions there, but she had noticed immediately. The slightest release of her chaotic power had shattered the illusion and freed her.
Now she wanted to see just what sort of thing was blocking their way this time!
Buzzz-
The sky split open. The enormous blue dragon beat her wings, and her vast wings gradually turned pitch-black. The chaotic power she released fractured the surrounding space inch by inch.
That blood moon appeared in her sight once again.
This time.
She attacked directly.
She abruptly opened her enormous jaws and spewed black flames of chaos in that direction, powerful enough to annihilate vast swaths of the void.
Rumble-
The space ahead of them crumbled continuously, and the ground collapsed, as though heaven and earth were being destroyed.
Under such terrifying