With a soft shout from Xie Wen, the Palico Summoning Ticket held between his two fingers instantly turned into a streak of red light, shot higher into the air, and soon vanished into the sky.
After everyone had waited quietly for a little over ten seconds, Hua Mei Meow was the first to notice a change...
"Admiral, the light around us seems to be getting dimmer, meow."
(=ω=)
In fact, even without Hua Mei Meow's reminder, everyone soon noticed the change in the sky.
It had indeed been hard to notice at first, but after Hua Mei Meow spoke, the sky over a vast area around the Dudu dimmed at a visible rate. That rate kept accelerating until the area where Xie Wen and the others stood became pitch-black, so dark they could not see their hands in front of their faces.
If someone had looked toward Xie Wen and the others from a distance at the same altitude, they would have seen a gigantic black sphere suspended in the air, like a sun undergoing a total eclipse, or a black hole that had swallowed everything.
Fortunately, Xie Wen and the others were flying high enough that no one below could see the anomaly. At most, they would have felt that the sky in this area was a little gloomy, which was nothing at all on the Grand Line, with its bizarre and varied climate.
"Judging purely by the commotion during the summoning, only Klee's and Shalmy's summonings could compare to this one... Hmm... I suppose Ai's counts too."
Looking at the "night" that had suddenly descended, Xie Wen could not help rubbing his chin and muttering.
Actually, if he really compared them, the enormous explosion when Klee Meow arrived, the lightning bolt that delivered Shalmeow, and the sudden downpour