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I looked up at the bright moon in the sky. The Purgatory’s moonlight was just as gentle as it was on the surface with one difference: its light was cold enough to turn my skin into ice.

Oh? What’s that?

I narrowed my eyes suddenly. A cloud had blotted out the moon—no wait, that wasn’t a cloud, that was an extraordinarily tall cliff top. That’s right, it was a cliff top. The fortress was built at a gap between two mountain ranges, and the cliff top, for some reason, was at least 10,000 meters tall. It almost looked like a wolf’s fang that was reaching toward the sky. It was so tall that we could just barely see it from the ground…

I raised my hand and measured the angle for a bit. Then, my heart began racing faster.

……

"Hey, what are you doing?" Uldan shot me a surprised look.

The corners of my lips turned up uncontrollably.

"You’re totally smiling like an evil villain right now!" She pointed a finger at me.

I exhaled a bit before saying, "We’re going to play a game called ‘justice rains from above’, Uldan. We’re going to destroy this fortress and rush into the spatial rift while the enemy is confused!"

"Oh? And how do we do that?" Uldan asked.

I grabbed her hand and said, "Just follow me!"

Pa!

Leaving behind a barely discernible trail of divine...