The Black Cloud swirled around as if it had its own will.
It was high in the sky.
From the center of that swirl, a part of the black cloud stretched thinly like that of a spider thread, and just like that, it stretches all the way down.
Then, it lowers onto Shiva who was standing up with his body covered in wounds.
“Let me introduce it to you. This is my Mother Monster, Beelzebub.” (Shiva)
“Wind Mother Monster?! That black smoke?!” (Haine)
I couldn’t describe it in any other way.
From afar, it only looks like a black cloud; from up close, it looks like black smoke.
It is not impossible, but it is a gaseous-like body that doesn’t look like a living being at all. Even if they are classified as monsters, aren’t they supposed to be connected to living beings somehow or another?
“At the same time as they can give birth to wind element monsters, I also had them take on the role of hiding and protecting Rudras Metropolis. In other words, that is the Wind Barrier. Even if there’s travelers encountering the Wind capital by coincidence, these guys won’t allow them to enter unless allowed!” (Shiva)
“Making use of every goddamn thing! The humans, the city, the ethereal, and the monsters as well; you are utilizing them all as much as you want!” (Haine)
“I wonder about that. But that ends today. These guys will devour everything after all!” (Shiva)
The black smoke rushes in wave towards me with the order of Shiva.
My instincts were telling me that being bathed by that would definitely be bad news.
“Hmph!!”
I faced that thing straight on.
I release dark matter, and with the same level of wave, I clash it with the black smoke.
“I don’t know what that black smoke is, but it looks like it doesn’t have the power to fight straight on against the dark matter. I can feel the divine power is being erased!” (Haine)
“That’s true, but what about the others aside from you?” (Shiva)
“!!!”
Something came to mind, and I face the side.
And then, what came to view were the heroes that were being attacked by the black smoke in the same way as me, and the Founders as well!
“Damn it!!” (Haine)
I quickly ran towards them.
I will be distancing myself from Shiva in this way, but now that things have turned like this, I have no choice.
“Kyaaaa!!” (Karen)
“What-dasu?! What-dasu?!” (Sasae)
“At any rate, it is certain that touching that thing will be dangerous! [Flame Burst]!” (Mirack)
The large fire that Mirack released had burned the place where the black smoke is, and it hindered its advance.
Thanks to that, the Founders and heroes are currently okay.
“Everyone!!” (Haine)
I also ran towards the group and release dark matter at the surroundings.
“Mirack! It looks like my power and yours is effective against this black smoke! The two of us will take one side each and block them out completely!!” (Haine)
“Got it!! But this smoke, since the fire element is effective against it, could it be that it is something wind element related?!” (Mirack)
Based on the element affinities, fire is the one that’s strong against wind.
Fire will breathe in the air, increase in potency, and with that heat, it disturbs the flow of the wind.
In our first encounter with Mirack, I remember her burning all the wind element monsters -Python Flies- with one attack.
And so, the same thing happening here serves as a strengthening statement towards this black smoke actually being the Wind Mother Monster.
“We don’t know what this smoke is! As long as we don’t clarify the identity of it, don’t touch it by no means!!” (Celestis)
“You say identity, but how are we even going to identify it?! From what I can see, aside from it moving as if it has a will of its own, it seriously just looks like smoke, you know?!” (Mirack)
The fastest way would be to ask Shiva himself, but that guy is still at the center of the ring, and was simply looking at us with a grin on his face.
Mirack is releasing fire and I am releasing dark matter without pause, but the smoke is also coming down nonstop from the main body -the black cloud.
As long as we don’t burn it or erase it, we will be at a stalemate here.
“What is the Wind Founder doing?!”
I don’t know who said it, but that is a natural question.
Only the Wind Founder Shiva was not doing anything and simply standing on the ring, but he is completely fine. It doesn’t look like the black smoke is doing anything to him.
But that doesn’t mean we would get positive and think that we will be fine as well.
Unless you are extremely dense, you would definitely notice that this abnormality has something to do with the Wind Founder.
“Haine-san, what is the Wind Founder trying to do?! Just what in the world is this black smoke?!” (Karen)