It was like the night sky had turned into a giant mirror. What was reflected in it was the fate of death.

  Suddenly, darkness appeared before everyone's eyes, and they involuntarily fell to the ground. In the midst of their fear that they did not know where it came from, they looked up at the sky.

  All that they could see was Avalon's reflection.

  The reflection was filled with blood and fire.

  It seemed as if fate had already been determined, and nothing could be changed.

  Then the illusion was torn apart, and lightning……

  Countless people's eyes were struck by a light that blazed like an exploding star.

  The destruction that had been foretold fell from the sky.

  The heavens and the earth roared.

  In the next instant, Mary closed her eyes as she sat on the throne. And in the reflection of the sea, in the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth, the Queen who had been transformed by the pure Firebird opened her eyes and looked at the sky.

  Light shone from the depths of the sea. The tides flowed upwards. Although it was millions of tons of seawater, it moved no slower than lightning falling from the sky.

  The sea of light set off a hurricane which swept up into the heavens which resisted the wind and thunder like an iron box placed over a sandcastle.

  In the next moment, the sea boiled.

  Gungnir collided with the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth, and the two were locked in a stalemate. Amid the lightning Gungnir hung in the sky, revealing its vague outline through the violent electricity. Even through the water curtain formed by the ocean, the light was still sharp enough to frighten people.

  A wind powerful enough to destroy the world brewed in that collision.

  The upwards flowing tide quickly collapsed into a torrential rain that descended from the sky and quickly evaporated in the air into a mist that was pushed towards the earth by the hurricane. After the hurricane broke itself against the sharpness of the city, it spread out in all directions.

  At this moment the world went dark.

  Above the sea of light, a mass of thick, white vapor surged out in all directions. The fog-covered city was illuminated by fierce lightning. A terrible force powerful enough to burn the entire island to ash pierced through, and a roaring sound penetrated the tides and resounded throughout the city, ravaging everyone's eardrums.

  In a flash, the tide dissipated.

  The first defense that had been set by the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth was annihilated by Asgard's long-planned attack.

  But it had struggled on until the most important point.

  In that short time, Mary's throne had opened under the twisting of the hub, and numerous thin cables wriggled out of it, piercing deep into her limbs.

  The bell rang above the Tower Bridge.

  In the silent palace, Dominic silently pushed on the hub, and under the connection of numerous instruments of harmonious melody, the Homeland Defense Front was launched.

  "L'etat, c'est moi," [1] Mary closed her eyes and whispered softly.

  The shadow of a scabbard appeared in the sky above the city and blocked the path of Gungnir's fall. The vestige of the golden retriever appeared from within the scabbard. The little dog bounded into the sky. After three steps it turned into an all-devouring golden dragon. A pair of wings opened up and the countless scales on them relaxed and expanded. Light reflected off him into the sky, as if he had transformed the whole world into a part of his body.

  Heaven and earth became his scales.