Buzzz-
For an instant, the vast curtain of light seemed to pierce the boundless Black Mist, as though he had become one of those countless meteors. That azure planet was reflected in his eyes.
Blue Star!
My home!
Beneath the Supernatural General Administration.
Countless heaps of rotting, suffocatingly foul flesh rose like mountains. The blood-red Magic Array pulsed like breathing, giving off a mournful glow. The place was already packed. Every Witcher and public employee in the Supernatural Association had come here. Some stood behind the high glass curtain wall on the second floor, while others held their breath beside Yin Qin and the others in a corner at the array's edge.
Everyone was desperate to witness this summoning from Hell.
To witness the one person in Hell who stood on humanity's side, that denizen of Hell trapped in darkness.
Only at the very center of the Magic Array did Bai Yi kneel like a corpse, gripping the sharp knife plunged into his chest, his head tilted back. He resembled a piece of transparent crystal through which his blood vessels were visible.
"Did it... work...?"
Trembling, Yin Qin took a dazed step forward.
She stared at the rift in the center of the Magic Array, watching countless turbulent forces draw in the filthy flesh around it, filling that bottomless fissure leading to Hell.
Gurgle, gurgle-
Time slowly passed, yet they still saw no figure within the rift.
Even as the rift slowly closed until only a gap of barely ten centimeters remained, they still hoped a pair of blood-soaked hands might suddenly reach out and stop it from closing, letting them see that face from Hell.
But nothing came.
As the rift slammed shut, the entire Magic Array seemed to go out, slowly fading into complete darkness.
At that