With the Magic Prince's cooperation, the sun and moon in Maya's sky chased each other like a Carousel, yet neither could ever catch the other.
At times, the city was shrouded beneath a blood moon; at others, it blazed with daylight. No one had ever seen the sun and moon cycle so quickly.
Whenever Nightfall descended and the moon rose, the monster army would rustle up from beneath the ground.
But just as they finished gathering and prepared to attack the city, the sun would suddenly appear again, and the monsters would vanish in the sunlight as though they had evaporated.
Black, white, black, white, black.
Su Ming had Monark repeat the process dozens of times, probably wrecking the biological clocks of every plant in the dimension, before stopping the sunlight at noon once more.
None of this involved time. He was simply replacing the moon with the sun at night.
It looked rather absurd, but he had been watching what was happening beneath the city walls. He found that no matter how many times they repeated it, the monsters always emerged from underground like mushrooms after rain in a forest.
Moreover, no matter how many times they repeated it, the next wave of monsters never decreased in number. They even grew stronger and stronger.
At first, there had only been Skeleton Soldiers and scattered large monsters. Later, Dragons and fiends that blotted out the sky appeared. The enemy was constantly evolving.
Monark had cast spells too frequently and was completely unable to hold on any longer. He lay against the battlements, silently shedding tears. Even when someone as foul-smelling as Wade leaned against him and fell asleep, he could not be bothered to push him away.
Yes, because Wade had never been given a chance to test his new