A ratcheting explosion of Amras and Undeath essence blasted from outside the Egg of Future Dawn to mark the occasion – the decisive stretch of the conflict. It was grand, so grand that it might have pushed Aigas to its extinction faster.
…But it died out almost as soon as it had erupted. No one inside the Egg paid it any heed, however, Rias especially.
He was feeling for his face again.
'What did that woman do?' he asked himself, picturing a grinning Vali.
He wasn't dazed, however. His mind's gears were spiralling to their limits. The Egg of Future Dawn's shell was healing again, the world inside it repairing itself. Aimon shot up into the sky – into Aigas' sky. When the Egg closed up, it would be outside, safe.
