Lucy chuckled and stretched her arms. Lilith glanced in her direction while her form changed from the grotesque monster to her usual robed form.
"Thanks for the assist. I couldn't have killed this Stellar on my own… By the way, I thought you couldn't fly. But you're clearly floating, how're you doing that?"
Lilith's face revealed no emotion other than a small, meaningless smile.
"I can't fly. This isn't my actual body, just an apparition I dreamed up. My physical form is currently travelling atop Alyrine with Adam protecting me."
A light laugh echoed from Lucy's lips as she gazed into the ever-strengthening storm.
"I wonder how everybody else's doing!"
Just as these words left the Reaper's mouth, a gigantic explosion cleared the storm clouds in the area.
Both Lucy and Lilith gazed into its epicenter with wide eyes, as something truly unimaginable happened…
"Looks like we weren't the only Transcended to kill a Stellar…"
…
—Half an hour ago, in a different part of the storm—
