Shrouding Fog had arrived just as he was about to make his move once more, but the truth was that he couldn’t afford to make another move.
No matter how great the determination he had mustered, he couldn’t overcome the limitations of his condition. He had to pay a terrible price to defeat Banjol, and that had left him on the verge of death. That was also why he was so agitated when the Egg of the Beast God reappeared, for he didn’t have the strength to fight it anymore.
Even so, Roel still chose to confront his enemy.
The ones fighting on this battlefield weren’t just soldiers whom he had no ties with, but his close friends and lovers. Nora had practically gathered everyone she could trust, because she knew how difficult the fight was going to be.
Despite the great distance between them, he could spot many familiar figures—Kurt, Brittany, Juliana, Selina, Geralt, and many others whom he had met in the academy. They were here to save him.
To be honest, Roel was touched beyond words.
Humans only had one life, and this held true even in the Sia Continent. Marching straight into the enemy’s encampment to confront the Deviant Sovereign and his army was nothing short of suicide, but these people still came in the end.
Of course, he also knew that there were many reasons aside from their personal ties that they had come to save him, such as his own value. Nevertheless, they were putting their lives on the line to open up a path for him. If not for their help, he would have never gotten the chance to fight the Deviant Sovereign 1-on-1.
Be it for his friends, the hundreds of thousands of human soldiers gathered here who were indispensable to humankind’s survival, or Nora, Charlotte, Lilian, and Wilhelmina, the choice was very clear for Roel.
I’ll likely die, but there’s no choice.
Roel had hardened his conviction, but before he could make his move, the sun had given way to the moon, and Shrouding Fog had appeared on the battlefield quickly after that. It was almost as if there was some force stopping him from making a second move.
This was too much of a coincidence, and it also didn’t make sense.
The last time Shrouding Fog appeared, it had tried to kill him. It had chased him for a long distance over the course of a day to eliminate him. Given such a setting, there was no reason for Shrouding Fog to intervene at this moment, right before he was about to confront the Egg of the Beast God for a second time.
The wiser thing to do would have been for Shrouding Fog to wait for one of them to perish before joining the fight, and the sentient Shrouding Fog would have thought of that.
Furthermore, does Shrouding Fog really have the ability to induce such a phenomenon? Could it be… Mother? But if so…
Roel could hardly calm himself as he stared at the silver moon in the sky. Having been the target of the Mother Goddess’ gaze on multiple occasions, he intuitively understood that the moon currently in the sky was not the Mother Goddess’ avatar.
But that only further confused him.
It may have meant nothing if it was a coincidence, but if it truly was the Mother Goddess’ intent to stop him from further damaging his soul, it would mean that the Mother Goddess had really inherited the memories from the Witness State.
But why would the Mother Goddess be unwilling to meet him, then?
Many doubts floated in Roel’s mind, but before he could make sense of anything, the situation in the sky suddenly changed.
“Grar!”
After a prolonged stalemate, the Egg of the Beast God suddenly released a copious amount of mana with a furious roar. This immediately caught everyone’s attention. Before everyone’s eyes, the egg suddenly cracked, and a beast-headed giant emerged from within.
“!”
Roel was startled by the sight of a familiar opponent. It would appear that the Egg of the Beast God had inherited some of Banjol’s capability, making it far more dangerous than before.
With a burst of mana pulsation, the beast-headed giant charged at the white fog.
In response, Shrouding Fog let loose a scream, and countless undead creatures converged to stop the beast-headed giant’s advancement. It was to no avail. Those undead creatures were reduced to white bones and plummeted from the sky.
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