"Castorice and the others are in mortal danger?"
Herta was no fool. Seeing Lumina's grave expression, she immediately understood the situation.
A beautiful girl facing a life-threatening crisis, this was an extremely important matter.
Its importance was even far greater than making friends with a beautiful girl.
Just as if Lumina, while making friends with a beautiful girl, sensed that another beautiful girl was in danger. She would surely drop everything immediately, go help, and obstruct that danger, right?
After all, if she missed this chance to make friends with a beautiful girl, when would there be another time. But if a beautiful girl's life extinguished, there would be absolutely no next life...
To put it simply, one was a situation where although the relationship hadn't advanced, she could still be seen. While the other meant she would never be seen again.
Without a doubt, the latter would be far greater than the former. Lumina naturally would not put these two together for comparison.
"Then you should go help Castorice and the others now. I'll keep an eye on Hyacine and the rest, and nothing will go wrong."
Since she understood Lumina's thoughts, Herta naturally wanted to put her mind at ease.
A mere Sky Titan was still far from being Herta's match. With her watching here, it was absolutely impossible for Hyacine and the others to run into any trouble.
Not to mention... Herta might not even need to step in. Perhaps they could even deal with this Big Wings on their own.
Herta glanced down, as if seeing through this floating platform to the Sky Titan that was charging toward everyone at an extremely fast speed.
At this moment, its entire body was filled with a strange aura that sent a chill through one's heart. Herta understood that this was the aura of the Black Tide.
Creatures eroded by the Black Tide would all become much stronger, and even one as powerful as a Sky Titan was no exception. But that was only compared to the original Sky Titan. To Herta, it was just so-so.
As long as Hyacine and the others coordinated well, they would naturally be able to deal with this Black Tide-eroded Titan.
"Alright, I'll leave it to you then." Hearing this, Lumina nodded to Herta without any hesitation. The next second, her figure turned into specks of green light and vanished from sight.
The power Lumina had left within Castorice's body was not insignificant, and she could have let this power condense independently to fight this enemy.
But Lumina wasn't at ease.
When it came to matters that endangered beautiful young girls, Lumina had to be one hundred percent cautious. Since Herta was watching here and there were no problems, she would just go there with her True Body.
"There's no time for us to guess, run!"
Lumina's departure did not cause any commotion among the group.
After all, Lumina had been at the very back of the team to begin with, and since she left quietly without revealing any movement, no one noticed her.
Phainon shouted loudly, taking the lead in running at the very front.
Phainon's voice received unanimous recognition from everyone. If the voice was strange yet familiar, then so be it. It was related to everyone, but it wasn't as important as the Sky Castle that was about to collapse before their eyes.
If the Sky Castle collapsed, falling from this height would probably leave them scattered all over the place.
No, being scattered all over the place would already be considered quite lucky.
At this height, with the force of the impact, becoming a meat pancake would be the most likely, most probable outcome.
"Eh, where did Lumie go?"
Just then, right before she started running, Hyacine suddenly felt something, an empty feeling in her heart, and couldn't help but glance back.
That single glance made Hyacine freeze on the spot.
Lumina was clearly here just a moment ago, so how... how did she suddenly vanish?
Lumie... something... something bad couldn't have happened to her, right?
Hyacine didn't immediately start running after Phainon. Instead, she turned her gaze to Herta, wanting to ask where Lumie had gone.
"Hertie, Lumie..."
Rumble!
Just as Hyacine spoke, before she could even finish the sentence, the floating platform suddenly shook violently. The next second, the platform that had been suspended in the air lost control and shot upward at an extremely high speed.
Under the sudden surge of gravity, everyone except Herta, who remained standing steadily, was pinned to the platform, able only to grit their teeth and force themselves up.
At the same time, a shadow also appeared within the Celestial Mural of the cloudy sky, emitting a series of sharp, ear-piercing screeches.
"Is that a Titan?! But its Coreflame has already..."
With this sudden disturbance, Hyacine's thoughts were instantly drawn to the revived Titan.
As the floating platform continued its ascent, the group found it impossible to stand.
Not until the platform returned to the dome of the Celestial Mural did a massive shadow engulf them all.
Boom!
With a violent crash, a pair of colossal hands and a figure appeared above the platform, pinning it to the spot with sheer force.
Staggering from the impact, the group quickly scrambled to their feet, raising their weapons and aiming them at the enemy who had appeared before them.
"Could it be... Seliose?!"
Hyacine was no fool. After a brief moment of deduction, her mind naturally turned to Seliose.
After all, the Sky Coreflame was now with Hyacine, so the Sky Titan should have already lost its power as a Titan.
So its sudden revival now could only mean one possibility: Seliose.
Yet... seeing its twisted form now engulfed by the Black Tide, Hyacine couldn't help but feel a surge of sadness in her heart.
"Lord Seliose, is that you?"
Even if the history passed down was false, Hyacine still held the utmost respect for Seliose. Seeing it reduced to this strange, distorted state, how could she bear it?
Hyacine admitted that at this moment, she still harbored a bit of a "Saintess complex." She wanted to use words, against all odds, to awaken Seliose's heroic mind and thus defeat the powerful enemy before them.
But the result, naturally, was not what Hyacine had hoped for.
Seliose swung the Sky Titan's body, sending countless waves of the Black Tide crashing down from the sky upon the group.
"Hah..."
After fending off this attack, Hyacine completely abandoned her idea.
It was true that she still had a lingering Saintess heart. But since words couldn't awaken it, she would just have to be a physical Saintess!
As long as she beat it awake, there would be no problem!
Even if it died in the end, there would be no problem, as long as she could beat it awake!
But before that...
"Hertie, where did Lumie go? How come I don't see her?" Compared to Seliose, Hyacine actually cared more about Lumina.
Seliose was a legendary figure from history, while Lumina was a person right before her eyes. Even if Hyacine had to choose a thousand or ten thousand times, she would still choose to care about Lumina.
"Her? She's fine, just that some problems came up on Castorice's side, and Lumina went to help them."
Promoting the virtue of "being helpful" to a beautiful young girl was something Lumina would be more than happy to do.
Therefore, Herta didn't hide anything and answered truthfully.
"Ah, did something happen to Castie?" Hearing this, Hyacine's heart tightened instantly. Seliose was completely thrown to the back of her mind, and all her thoughts were focused on the danger Castorice was facing and Lumina's help.
Seeing Hyacine's worried and nervous posture, Herta waved her hand casually: "Don't worry, even if something did happen, with Lumina there, nothing will go wrong."
Even if she died, as long as the corpse was still warm, Lumina could probably resurrect her.
Therefore, there was really nothing to worry about.
Hmm... alright, there was still one thing to worry about.
That guy Lumina, she probably wouldn't take advantage of someone while they were still warm and get all handsy, right?
"Uh... what am I even thinking?"
The moment this thought surfaced in Herta's mind, she immediately dismissed and extinguished it.
Taking advantage of someone while they were still warm... that already went beyond the level of a pervert. That was a level ten thousand times more perverted than a regular pervert; Lumina wasn't that guilty.
Besides, even if the person were alive, Lumina could still get all handsy with her, and when it was over, she could even get the beautiful young girl's gratitude.
In such a situation, Lumina would have to be completely insane to act that way.
Herta shook her head, thought no more of it, and let her gaze fall upon the Seliose before her, who was being eroded by the Black Tide. A faint, imperceptible glint flashed in her eyes.
A suspicion had formed in her heart.
If the truth was indeed as Herta suspected, then this so-called "Era Nova" was probably not a good thing.
Thinking of this, Herta silently glanced at Hyacine.
And then she saw Hyacine's face full of admiration for Lumina.
As expected of Lumie, she's just so amazing!
Herta: "..."
Even though Hyacine hadn't said a word, Herta knew exactly what she was thinking just by looking at her expression.
Regarding this, Herta could only say,
If this "Era Nova" could erase memories, then it might not be such a bad thing after all...
Amphoreus, Okhema.
"Ha... ha... ha..."
"This guy's strength..."
At the city gate, the three Demigods Castorice, Mydei, and Cipher were fighting a single enemy together.
An enemy in black robes and with a black sword, wearing a mask and a cloak that concealed his face.
Three Demigods facing one enemy ought to have been a completely one-sided situation.
But the result... was indeed a completely one-sided situation.
It's just that the one-sidedness wasn't on the Demigods' side, but on the side of the enemy in black robes and with a black sword, wearing a mask and a cloak that concealed his face...
And on the bodies of the three Demigods Castorice, Mydei, and Cipher, there were also wounds of all sizes, among whom Mydei's injuries were the most severe.
After all, he possessed an immortal body, so he charged to the very front and also endured the most damage.
"Bastard!"
Cipher's face was slightly flushed, and there was a hint of anger in her eyes, as if she had encountered something extremely infuriating.
She looked up at The Sky, only to see the once dawn-filled heavens completely covered in a deep crimson... The Dawn Device on Kephalos had now been completely extinguished, unable to bring dawn to the people of Okhema any longer.
All of this, all of this was because of a single sentence spoken by the Black-Robed Swordsman before them: "The Dawn Device has long been extinguished; today's dawn is merely the Lie of [Trickery]!"
After this sentence fell, the Authority of [Trickery] immediately failed.
The Dawn Device, deprived of the blessing of Trickery, also turned into this broken and dilapidated form.
Countless Black Tides also invaded Okhema at the same time. Aglaea, who had originally been resisting the Flame Reaver, was also forced to plunge into the battlefield against the Black Tide because of this sudden change.
Cipher hated him, hated the Flame Reaver before her, and hated him for revealing this "truth"...
"We can't stop him, even if we pay with our lives, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do." Castorice held her Scythe and looked at the Flame Reaver before her with a cautious expression, while the Giant Dragon Pollux kept circling in The Sky, waiting for Castorice's orders.
"Hmph!" Mydei snorted coldly. Although he didn't want to accept this fact, there was nothing he could say.
Because Castorice was right, the gap in strength was obvious. Even with three Demigods here, defeat would only be a matter of time.
Even if the three of them fought desperately to block the Flame Reaver, they would probably not be able to hold out for much longer.
They could only continue to kite the Flame Reaver; this way, they could at least stall for a while and hold their ground against him. But this was ultimately not a strategy.
If they continued to retreat like this, the battlefield would soon shift into Okhema City.
Aglaea's Golden Threads spanned the entire city-state. Those Black Tide Spawn were temporarily unable to enter Okhema under the influence of Aglaea and the soldiers in the city, but... but if the three of them kept retreating, causing the Flame Reaver to enter Okhema, the relatively balanced situation would probably change.
"No, we can't keep retreating," Castorice clenched her teeth, her beautiful eyes filled with determination.
Castorice didn't want to die, because if she died, she would never see Sister Lumina again.
But as a Chrysos Heir of Okhema, Castorice could not take another step back. Even if she died in battle here, she had to stop the Flame Reaver's advance!
"Struggling is all in vain... useless!"
The Flame Reaver's longsword, which resembled Morning Invasion, emitted a black mist as he pointed the sword at the three of them.
The next second, the Flame Reaver leaped up, and several clones materialized beside him as he charged toward the three with absolute confidence.
"Everyone, stand together and resist him as one!" Seeing this, Castorice hurriedly signaled for Mydei and Cipher to come to her side to jointly resist the Flame Reaver's assault.
Meanwhile, Pollux, who was circling in the sky, opened his mouth and spat out streams of purple dragon breath after receiving Castorice's command.
However, it failed to cause any effective injuries to the Flame Reaver... but it did disrupt the Flame Reaver's pace and rhythm.
Still, this made little difference to the final outcome.
"Hmph!"
Suddenly appearing before the three, the Flame Reaver snorted coldly. An invisible force blasted Mydei and Cipher away, and the sword's tip stabbed toward Castorice's chest.
Because Castorice, as a Demigod, also possessed the ancient bloodline of a dragon, she was undoubtedly the most troublesome of the three. Therefore, the Flame Reaver prepared to eliminate her first.
Once she was dealt with, the remaining two would naturally be no problem at all.