Silver Wolf soon ran out of spare ammunition.
On the great ship's deck, countless Black Sun Cultists gathered together, their limbs interlocking to form an enormous sphere.
Silver Wolf poured most of her gunfire into it, but even after those bodies were shredded, the worms inside remained attached to them.
They formed an enormous Worm Ball.
The sight made Silver Wolf frown, while Asta beside her looked positively ill.
The sight was far too much for their minds to bear!
Unable to see any of it, Chu Mu was actually the most relaxed of the group.
Just then, the giant serpent slowly sank until it disappeared from sight.
Kafka walked over from a distance and sighed.
"Sorry, I didn't get any useful information. I let you down."
"Did your Word Spirit Art fail?" Silver Wolf asked. "Or was that big thing just too stupid to have a brain?"
Combined with a Synesthesia Beacon, Kafka's Word Spirit Art could implant psychological suggestions in the vast majority of intelligent creatures.
"Something inside that ship took control of its brain." Kafka shrugged. "That thing has a trace of conceptual power. I can't deal with it right now. I suspect it has something to do with an Aeon. It might even be the remains of a fallen Aeon."
"Propagation?" Silver Wolf exclaimed. "A fallen Aeon, plus the Swarm? Propagation is the only thing that comes to mind!"
Tayzzyronth, the Aeon of Propagation, was also known as the Insect Emperor. He had once unleashed an insect plague that swept across the Sea of Stars, and several Aeons had finally joined forces against him.
The Aeon of Propagation had tried to gather all his power to strengthen himself, so he stopped dividing and chose to merge all his individual selves.
That ran counter to the Path