The immense wave of snow mist raised by the avalanche was swallowing the shattered plain of ice crystals.
Seen from above, Asgard now looked like an enormous flower of frost and mist slowly blooming!
At the altar in the center, Shawn watched his subordinates scrambling for safety.
They really were elite wizards. Even in danger, they showed no panic, and quite a few had begun transforming into their animagus forms.
Birds and beasts of every kind flew and leaped across the fractured ice, helping their companions escape danger.
Among them, Grindelwald revealed his animagus form in public for the first time: a bull-headed troll with two blue wings, identical to his appearance under the Fire Escape Shield.
It was clearly an exceptionally high-level magical creature, too!
The enormous beast carried at least half the members of Grindelwald's Army.
After a moment of stunned surprise, Shawn ordered them all onto the Rainbow Bridge.
Strangely enough, though the entire plain seemed about to overturn, the Rainbow Bridge remained utterly motionless.
A ring-shaped gap seemed to have opened around it. Judging by the base of the Rainbow Bridge, the entire plain was rising rapidly even as it broke apart.
Still transformed, Grindelwald had intended to use a few ward-breaking tricks to create a temporary safe zone, but when he turned his head, he noticed this as well.
Before Shawn gave the order, he was already leaping toward the Rainbow Bridge's icy steps with the Acolytes of Grindelwald's Army.
The members of the Pure Land Society hesitated. In the legends their ancestors had passed down for generations, stepping onto the Rainbow Bridge held an extraordinary significance.
Only after Shawn repeatedly gave them firm orders did they begin boarding the Rainbow Bridge in an orderly fashion. Their expressions were devout, however, and a few had