"No!!!"
Flora let out a piercing scream.
Suddenly, strange worms with seven or eight segments each crawled out of the rat's wounds, one after another. Numerous three-dimensional patterns floated within their transparent portions, while time seemed to flow over their segments.
Edward's mind abruptly went blank. By the time he recovered, his leather pouch, his clothes, and even more than half his abilities had vanished. He hurriedly used Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, using the forty-one additional streams of thought to resist the Marauder Half-God's theft of his thoughts.
Akasha was in an even worse state. She sat slumped naked on the ground, her red eyes utterly vacant.
Edward knew that Flora had entered her Mythical Creature Form and intended to fight to the death!
The next moment, the Painting World began to collapse and dissipate, and they returned to the pitch-black cellar.
Flora had already gone mad. She no longer thought of escaping, nor did she intend to resist the loss of control brought on by her Mythical Creature Form. She instinctively stole everything around her, crazed with the desire to destroy it all.
Just then, a bell rang.
Leonard appeared. Reflected in each of his green eyes was a slightly dim Worm of Time with twelve translucent segments. The two Worms of Time each joined head to tail, forming identical upright rings.
As though drawn to him, Flora abandoned her theft of everything else around her and turned her attention to Leonard.
"Why did you have to push me!"
"Why did you have to push me!"
"Why!!"
She launched a theft at Leonard without hesitation, but she failed.
This was the suppression of a Low Sequence by a High Sequence. Not only that, an illusory, ancient Carved Stone Wall Clock appeared behind Leonard.
The strange worms Flora