The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family

However, at that moment…

Boom!!!

The ground shook once more with a thunderous sound. Karsus instinctively pulled Tiel tightly into his arms, and Tiel, equally instinctively, clung to Karsus.

A tremendous roar and vibration shook all of Arcadia.

“Ahhh!”

Tiel screamed in shock, and Karsus, Ferdie, Ludian, and Alpheus all simultaneously activated their powers to form a protective barrier.

The Asterian flame barrier expanded in four layers. They quickly surrounded themselves and Tiel with the barrier to protect them.

The flames of Asterian erupted in an instant. Red flames surrounded them, partially blocking their vision.

But before the vision was completely blocked, Tiel saw something.

“What is that…?”

In Tiel's large, transparent golden eyes, something black flickered.

The Asterian black leopards instinctively lowered the height of the barrier to see where Tiel was looking.

There, in the distance...

“...Light?”

Ferdie muttered, furrowing his brow. However, Tiel shook her head.

“That’s not light... that’s…”

It’s closer to darkness.

Far off, in the direction of the temple, hundreds of fish, similar to Tiel's, were soaring up into the sky.

But those fish seemed a little strange. As hundreds of them swam up at once, they appeared less like a school of fish and more like a single giant snake.