" — why did you leave her alone? " amidst the disaster caused by the expansion of gloxievania , the tree of life. Belial held kura——takamiya by the collar. She was taken with a bitter look, Freya's soul had been sucked away under her helpless gaze, but nevertheless, she set her sights on Kura who observed her passively.
—— you were the closest, but you didn't try anything —— why are you picking on me again?
Kura was skeptical of Belial's reaction. She knew full well that he was right—she couldn't do anything to help him—she couldn't even feel the presence of the roots.
-- but nevertheless ….. .
—— ———±— [the imaginary world is a space where the laws of the universe do not exist, where good and evil merge and intertwine in a veil of sparkling snow white—— a mirror place where lost souls can establish connection with the material world. —— similar to the "embryo", the innate space of the deities.
The imaginary world is governed under another plane of space, laws and causality —— the boundary between the limits of time and what lies beyond. One of the main characteristics of the " imaginary world " is its tributary flow of auric energy in order to maintain an existence.
——a tangled-looking man stood floating in the air, his appearance grotesque and barely sporting a recognizable shape.
Aware of its dubious form, the entity changed into a man of advanced millennium age.
His long, flowing white beard was still present as well as his enormous opaque hat, his formerly absent lower body was replaced by a long blue dress similar to the color of his hat. — despite his appearance and his "ancient" air he was majestic and full of praise—— despite his disembodied state of mind.
—— Merlin ——
Once known as the greatest sorcerer in legend. His knowledge was compared to that of the deities who watched the garden of the creators of the Summit from their thrones of golden sails.
"—Merlin?.." questioned Léa captivated, she didn't know why Graham had suddenly changed to such an old being. —— RiD, reiki and the S-rank hunters remained silent at the event, only Ludia as " mage" could understand Merlin's notoriety and immense knowledge with a simple look, it was an ability specific to the hunter with the status of "mages"——.
"—— the prophecy of thousands of years ago is coming to fruition —— vortigern is awakened"
— Merlin pointed his scepter, a Staff carved from the Gloxievani tree with a crystallized seed embedded in it . Leah and the others immediately adjusted their guards in case of an imminent attack —— only Ludia remained motionless, her eyes sparkling with astonishment at the light of Merlin's scepter.
It was an optical perception spell——under the assembly of a play of light reflecting the appearance of humans or creatures desired according to the user's mind. the magi had adopted this way of explaining events in a short time.
"A prophecy? Hilde asked—her sword pointed at Merlin's throat.
" balmüng the sword of the great Hero Siegfried, executioner of fafnir" Hilde was surprised at the time, the data about the sacred treasures were encrypted using auric energy coming from zephyr, the analysis should be impossible - — by no means feasible —— but yet…
"Sorry, young lady, but it's not with this sword that you'll slay Vortigern —especially now that he's taken over the body of a descendant of the Ars Goetia."
— the Ars Goetia? » questioned Hilde, balmüng had returned to its sheath, no hostile intention emanated from Merlin. Balmüng would be incapable of killing him.
"—— they are evil spirits who live in the oblivion of worlds —"
a crystal ball instantly appeared on Merlin's hand — a zephyr egg! Hilde thought in surprise. It is said that Zephyr the great dragon laid 4 eggs which he entrusted to the great ruler of the world in the hope that he could keep control over the flow of magic.
—— zephyr the cosmic dragon, legend has it that the quantity of auric magic stored in one of these eggs can trigger a universal cataclysm. The S-rank huntresses were amazed that Merlin could have "one".
[—— this is a zephyr egg, I brought it from the past before it was entrusted to the leaders of the world of Men" under the incomprehensible gaze of the others Merlin recited an incantation in a foreign language that even Hilde equipped with the "eye of god" could not translate. —— they were words from a distant, forgotten world, which had ceased to exist.
♪ — you who govern space, laws — the world — you who cover the cosmos with your wings — lend me your roar of call and realize the first step of the prophecy——♪
— what...?— uh''! Belial was surprised and shocked — one minute she was in the city and the next she was in this meaningless white space.
——where am I?—she asked when an intention to kill awakened her senses.
Merlin had lost his cool, for him the one in front of him was not the chosen one of the prophecy —— she was a descendant of "Ars Goetia —", even if Belial was not aware of this part of his being following a memory failure, Merlin could clearly see the depths of his soul, the being present before him was without a doubt
"the demon king belial — 3rd in the golden key rank of king Solomon".
"—— how..?—" The once calm and serene Merlin had lost his temper and cast a spiritual sealing spell on Belial. —— Hilde, Lea, Meng—hao and the others executed a back jump to dodge the waves of rays that had been deflected before they could even reach their target.
" - an intervention ? A protection of the world itself?!" Merlin was surprised—and resigned himself to the will of the one who allowed him beyond the limits of the world.
"—you are here in the white dimension, I am your summoner"— Merlin declared.
"The world of creators is heading towards its doom, I imagine that you witnessed the events that took place" —— at these words Belial thought back to the event where she had lost Freya, her anger increased.
— Are you the cause of this? —» Belial asked angrily.
"—— an old friend is the cause, his name is Vortigern — the rightful king of treacherous Albion." — Merlin's body performed a Zag in interference.
— my time is running out! " listen to me carefully! at the top of the mountain of fire and ice is the sacred object "magatama" it will show you the way to the avalon.
—— you must stop Vortigern, or he will use the sacrifice of 500 souls to take Avalon out of its mirror zone and spread chaos. " Merlin's body crumbled into pieces of luminous particles before disappearing successively.
" — during the ritual, I perceived the frequency of the chosen souls, but only one manifested.
Why? Interference?... » Merlin's body flew into pieces as well as the imaginary world.
—ah!? Belial was shocked by the fact that his surroundings changed scenery all the time. Indeed, she was no longer in the city of Tokyo, nor even that of the dawn sun - it was a green meadow full of life.
Graham's unstable fantasy world had transferred them to an unknown location.