Also—
Slumbering peacefully among them is the soul belonging to the Noble Lady.
Realizing what he should do, the Hero slowly raises his hand.
The array in his palm rotates slightly, like the face of a clock, the scales on it gently moving, and finally returning to zero.
The power of the Forbidden Curse unlocks, surging tumultuously towards the Sky City below.
Then, everything begins to freeze,
The flow of time halts, the forward direction of all things is frozen.
Human body functions are frozen, so no longer move, thinking also ceases in an instant;
The levitation of the city is frozen, and even gravity that should have made it fall is frozen, merely hovering in the air like an illusionary projection.
Even the movement of light is frozen, plunging the world into pure darkness and silence.
In this frozen Eternal Night, nothing can continue, everything has reached the end of the Apocalypse.
—Except for that sole soul.
