"Seal it? How? Didn’t you say the ominous power it emits is extremely dangerous?"

  Instead of directly answering Galamand’s question, Avery looked at Aurora, Scherfil, and finally Hulim—

  "Winnie."

  "Hmm? Me......?"

  Hulim froze when she heard Avery call her name.

  Surely he doesn’t want me to do it? I don’t know how to seal something like this......

  "You are of the Nymph Spirit Clan. Your Sage Spirit Orb is the purest thing in the world, immune to all influences. We need it to perform the seal."

  "Huh? Oh, I see......"

  So it’s not me who has to do the sealing.

  Hulim let out a sigh of relief.

  But......

  Sage Spirit Orb?

  What on earth is that......?

  Just as Hulim didn’t know how to respond, her body suddenly moved instinctively.

  A hidden power within her was awakened and floated out of her body.

  Hulim was confused, but when she saw the true form of that object, her eyes widened in shock.

  The Philosopher’s Stone——!!!

  So...... the Sage Spirit Orb is the Philosopher’s Stone!

  In a daze, Hulim suddenly understood why she had become Winnie, and not any other member of the Seven Sage Stars......

  "Scherfil."

  "What?"

  "You are of the Night Vampire Clan, who commands dark elements. You are immune to all curse effects, and the ominous power will have the least impact on you. You will carry out the sealing."

  "Hmph, I suppose there’s no helping it. As expected, I’m the one who has to step up in the end! Leave this to me, I won’t let you down~!"

  "Aurora."

  "C-can I help too?"

  "Your power is the bane of all curses and dark forces. You need to cast the final seal."

  "Y-yes! I’ll do my best!"

  "Hey...... Avery, what about us?"

  Sylph and the others who hadn’t been called stared intently at Avery.

  "Watch."

  Avery spoke two short words, then closed his mouth and fell silent.

  "Watch...... just watch?!?"

  Sylph and the others were dumbfounded, but there was nothing they could do—they really couldn’t help with this.

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  Hulim handed the Sage Spirit Orb to Scherfil.

  Whoosh!

  After taking the Sage Spirit Orb, Scherfil flew straight toward the object on the small hill.

  Sensing the approaching danger, the heart began to beat faster, and countless black vines stretched out toward Scherfil in the air.

  Scherfil waved her hand casually.

  A black slash appeared in the air, cutting all the vines clean in half.

  The severed vines fell to the ground, then turned into black mist and drifted back to the heart.

  "Come out!"

  Scherfil clenched her hand toward the entire hill.

  Boom!

  The area around the small hill was covered by an impenetrable shadow swamp, and a giant shadow hand emerged from it.

  The shadow hand reached for the hill, grabbed the collection at the top, and began to exert force.

  Thump! Thump! Thump......

  The collection struggled violently, emitting waves of pitch-black ominous power, but it couldn’t stop the shadow hand.

  In the end, it was completely uprooted.

  The shadow hand wrapped around it tightly, then gradually shrank, flying toward Scherfil. Under her control, it directly merged into the Sage Spirit Orb.

  As the collection was sealed inside the Sage Spirit Orb, the ominous aura that had shrouded the area quickly dissipated.

  "It’s done!"

  Scherfil flew back and handed the Sage Spirit Orb to Aurora to cast the final seal.

  Once everything was successfully completed.

  Hulim and the others didn’t delay, setting off on their journey back immediately.

  ......

  Town Hall.

  "You’ve worked hard."

  Hulim and the others met Terra again.

  "Lady Terra, this is what we captured in the end."

  Aurora took out the Sage Spirit Orb and presented it to Terra.

  "So this is the thing......"

  Terra stretched out her right hand, and the Sage Spirit Orb floated into her palm.

  Hum!

  A mysterious magic circle then unfolded in her hand, and a regular octahedral cube appeared in the air.

  The heart-like collection originally sealed in the Sage Spirit Orb slowly broke free, drifted into the octahedral cube, and then froze as if trapped in ice, floating quietly in the center of the cube.

  After completing this, Terra returned the Sage Spirit Orb to Hulim.

  Hulim took it back into her body, then glanced at the sealed collection in Terra’s hand.

  "Lady Terra, how do you plan to dispose of this thing?"

  Terra replied:

  "It cannot be destroyed by ordinary means. I will seal it in a safe place and set up a magic circle to purify it slowly."

  At this point, Terra looked around at everyone.

  "Thank you all for handling this. If we had delayed sealing it any longer, it would have grown further and caused even greater trouble."

  "In addition, there are likely many creatures in the North corrupted by its power. Those creatures are still a hidden danger, and I’ll need to trouble you to go there again later."

  "Yes!"

  After assigning them to deal with the aftermath, Terra left with the sealed collection, accompanied by her assistant Merkphis......

  At that moment.

  As Hulim watched the two leave, she suddenly found the scene in front of her blurring again.

  Time began to accelerate once more......

  ......

  When the blurry scene refocused.

  Hulim found herself still in that town.

  But the town was much larger than before, and the architectural style was no longer as monotonous.

  However, the town hall hadn’t changed much.

  "Winnie, welcome back~!"

  Outside the town hall, Semiris greeted her as usual.

  "Semiris, I’m back."

  Hulim reached out and ruffled her hair.

  "Hehe~!"

  Semiris let out a silly giggle, looking thoroughly content.

  "Oh, I almost forgot! Goddess Mother seems to have something to discuss—she’s waiting inside~."

  "Is that so? I’ll go in right away."

  Hulim entered the town hall with Semiris.

  Inside, she saw Terra and the other members of the Seven Sage Stars.

  When Hulim arrived, Scherfil spoke up:

  "Lady Terra, all members of the Seven Sage Stars are here. May I ask what you wish to discuss with us?"

  Terra took out her crystal ball.

  "Recently, the crystal ball has been warning me of abnormalities appearing around the world."

  "Abnormalities? And all around the world?"

  Everyone looked confused.

  "Yes. It seems mutated giant beasts have appeared in various places. They are rampaging everywhere, destroying everything in their path, and many towns have already been destroyed."

  "Is that true? Lady Terra, what would you have us do? Please give your orders."

  Terra put away the crystal ball.

  "I’m afraid I’ll need to trouble you again. Please travel to various regions to eliminate these mutated giant beasts and help the affected people."

  "This is no different from our usual patrols! Don’t worry, Lady Terra—no matter how many mutated giant beasts there are, I, Galamand, will drive them away!"

  "In that case, we’ll proceed as we usually do, splitting up to handle the mutated giant beasts in different directions."

  "Agreed."

  "No objections."

  "Semiris wants to go too~!"

  After the discussion ended, the members of the Seven Sage Stars set off to various parts of the world to suppress the mutated giant beasts.