Beside the Ark on the lunar surface, the dark red markings on Black Giant Almaloz's scales suddenly lit up.
The black vines that had been entwined between the moon and Yomotsu Hirasaka instantly converged on him, as though summoned.
The crystalline vines looked as if they had been carved from obsidian, their surfaces covered in diamond-shaped reflective facets, their tips gleaming with a cold light.
The vines wound around Almaloz's body, from his ankles to his head.
The crystalline vines interlocked, forming a dense, cocoon-like structure, with streams of black energy flowing through the gaps.
As the last vine wrapped around his shoulder, Almaloz disappeared entirely inside a massive black crystalline cocoon, and space-rending energy fluctuations surged.
The black crystalline cocoon on the moon abruptly contracted, then exploded into countless streaks of black light that vanished into the vacuum of space.
Almost at the same instant, in the core region of Yomotsu Hirasaka.
On the shattered continental plate covered in black vines, where the Spear of Longinus had been pinned fast, violent ripples suddenly spread through space.
Whoosh!
Countless black crystalline vines burst from the spatial ripples like blooming black flowers, instantly weaving themselves into a vast dome.
At the center of the dome, Almaloz's figure slowly emerged. The crystalline vines fell away from his body, crumbling into fragments and dissipating.
The flames around him burned ever more fiercely, dark red markings flickering within them as he watched the Spear of Longinus entangled in vines nearby.
The divine spear's red glow had grown faint. Countless crystalline vines bound its shaft tightly, and black energy eroded its once-sacred red markings, turning them an eerie dark purple.
Almaloz raised his right hand, gathering a mass of dense black energy in his palm, ready to forcibly strip away the seal and seize this