Cat Who Doesn't Eat Fish wore a black Witch Robe and watched her surroundings with extreme vigilance.
Although she knew that being vigilant probably wouldn't help in a situation like this, that was instinct at work.
Players of the Divine Mechanism Race lacked that instinct.
If a player of the Divine Mechanism Race had been in her place, they would probably have been analyzing their chances of survival, only to find that those chances were zero.
But Cat Who Doesn't Eat Fish wasn't of the Divine Mechanism Race, so she could think like a being of flesh and blood. This situation was abnormal, so... was there something special about her that had kept that forceful control ability from affecting her?
And she felt as though her surroundings had suddenly grown darker.
Although space had been dark to begin with, there had still been stars shining in the distance.
Now, everything was pitch-black!
Suddenly.
A phoenix more than twenty meters long, burning with black-and-red flames, appeared before her without warning!
And she keenly noticed a black figure beside the phoenix!
She couldn't make out the figure clearly, but she could feel an utterly terrifying pressure that even made it a little difficult for her to breathe.
"Don't be nervous."
A pleasant male voice reached her. Most importantly, the man was actually speaking the Great Xia language!
For Cat Who Doesn't Eat Fish, the Great Xia language was her mother tongue, but she hadn't used it in so long that even hearing it again felt somewhat unfamiliar.
That was because she couldn't even find another player from Blue Star Civilization anywhere in the Highest Heaven.
She hadn't used the Great Xia language or heard anyone speak it for hundreds of years.
Only recently, because of "Shadow," had she occasionally noticed some players