While Hoolay was still dazed, Modu again insisted that he had never heard any such news and began arguing with Jiaoqiu.
As the two continued arguing, music suddenly rang out, its melody sweeping and majestic.
Everyone heard the music, but no one seemed to find anything strange about background music appearing at a time like this. Naturally, everyone knew that beings like the Knights of Beauty often came with inexplicable background music, showers of flowers, and lighting effects.
People in Honkai: Star Rail were already used to such things, however unlikely they might be for people in the real world.
At that very moment, the players playing through the messages would sit up the instant they heard the music. That familiar melody alone told them it was Imbibitor Lunae's theme-"Water Dragon Chant."
Of course, this was a rearranged instrumental version.
In the next instant, a roar echoed from the depths of the Prison of Deep Seclusion. A mighty water dragon came charging out with a roar, hurtling toward Hoolay.
Caught off guard by the sudden danger, Hoolay was about to raise his curved blade and meet the water dragon head-on, only to discover that more than one water dragon was surging toward him.
Countless water dragons roared as they rode the waves, wheeling and soaring as though sweeping aside the clouds to chase the sun. Their tails swept past, knocking the nearby Borisin Wolf Troopers clean off their feet.
Several enormous dragons surrounded Hoolay, biting and tugging at him as though he were a dragon pearl to play with. Yet their water-formed fangs were no mere decoration. They sank into his limbs and pulled, tearing his body apart by brute force.
The power of Permanence that had subdued the Ambrosial Arbor's arcane roots invaded Hoolay's body, suppressing its regeneration. With