Ash ran a few quick steps to the Altar, took out an orb with electricity flickering inside it, and fitted it into the recess in the Stone Tablet.
Under everyone's gaze, the three orbs sat quietly in a row. Yet several seconds passed without anything unusual happening!
"Huh? Why isn't anything happening?" Ash stood there blankly and turned to Flula. "Are these just ordinary decorations? Or do they actually have no power to stop the battle at all?"
Flula, however, showed no sign of panic. Instead, she said softly, "You'll see in a moment."
Just as everyone was puzzling over it, the three orbs suddenly burst into brilliant light.
The light grew brighter and brighter, until it actually merged into a single, faint green glow, forming a curtain of light that instantly filled the entire Altar!
Then a fierce wind burst outward from the Stone Tablet, sweeping away all the snow nearby!
Flowers covered the ground, their fragrance filling the air. Everything seemed to have returned to how it had been at the beginning.
The next second, a large amount of glowing green liquid flowed from beneath the Stone Tablet, filling the circular groove at its base before slowly spreading over the stone pillars beside the Altar.
Only then did everyone see that the stone slabs beneath the Altar were densely covered in strange carved symbols.
At the sight of that eerie color, they cautiously took a step back, all the while speculating to themselves.
That green... could it be some kind of terrifying poison...?
Fortunately, Flula slowly walked into the center of the Altar just then and took her oddly shaped flute out from inside her clothes.
She raised the flute to her lips and closed her eyes. Her fingers moved gently as she began to play the first