The blood mist no longer drifted through the sky. The ground beneath their feet had long since been stained black, and the curse had consumed almost every inch of land in sight. Only the spot where they stood remained a solitary point of light between heaven and earth.
Standing in her way, Lynn's eyes had already turned blood-red.
The silver light of Curse Removal blazed almost to its limit in his hands, preventing the darkness from advancing any farther.
Under his urging, the power of the Colossus Heart, which shared the same primordial source, barely managed to sustain her consciousness, holding her fast at the edge of that bottomless precipice.
Lynn turned his head with difficulty, his teeth clenched so hard they almost shattered. His blood-red eyes fixed on that dazed figure as he said:
"Stay alive."
"I know you've endured suffering that ordinary people could never bear. You said you gave them false hope. Then fight to turn that false hope into real hope!"
"I don't want to keep trying to persuade you. I know you can't take it in, because I haven't lived through what you have. I can't truly understand how you feel."
"But now, on my own name, I'm telling you this!"
"I have the power to weaken curses. Little by little, I'll grow until the day I can wipe them all out, because I want to go home just like you do. I want to leave this hell, too! And I'll lead all the Fallen back onto the road home!"
In that instant.
Lynn roared through gritted teeth, his eyes blood-red, and surged forward against the dark curse with all his strength.
That sustained roar almost rang across the entire sky.
And amid that roar, the dazzling silver light blazed like a roaring inferno, actually