As Adam grappled with his new reality and the girl's reappearance, the magic world's foundation trembled under the eye's mana.
"The offer doesn't stand anymore. The cleaver's owner left this world, and his desertion doomed you all."
The eye's voice thundered as colossal fingers dug through the splintered sky. A hand bigger than a kingdom descended under Julius' horrified eyes.
Its arm, a scaled copper pillar, pierced the western sea several millions of kilometers away. Yet, no matter where they stood, everyone could only gawk at it.
"A dragon..."
Alice's face collapsed, and her shoulders shuddered as she identified the creature's species in horror.
"Impossible! We only have records of their existence. No one ever saw one!"
Mathias clasped his head, shaking it in disbelief as the trio watched the hand emerge from the sea. Between its fingers, they saw an old city encased in a mana barrier and the legendary kraken wrapping its colossal tentacles around it.
