"The Holy City." Austin pointed in a direction.
Hearing this, Raylo sheathed his sword. He patted Lightning's neck. "Let's go! We're returning to the Sunset Forest!"
The Giant Dragon flapped its wings, soaring away amidst the wailing of tens of thousands of believers whose faith had just collapsed. It left behind only a severed Divine Statue, a burning church, and a "Demon legend" that would soon spread madly throughout the Empire.
At this moment, deep within the Holy City thousands of miles away, the very instant the Light Deity's statue was cleaved in two, a pair of tightly shut golden eyes seemed to sense something and slowly opened a slit.
At the edge of the Sunset Forest, ancient trees towered into the sky, forming an ocean of leaves that undulated like waves.
Ten thousand meters up in the sky.
