A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

With a flourish of her pen, she added the final line to the settings panel—

Simultaneously absorb all the power and concepts of the Snow Clow Card.

The words on the pages began to glow.

The pale gold characters seemed to come alive and began to writhe, each character peeling off the paper, floating, and recombining, eventually converging into a complex magic circle that made one's scalp crawl.

Akane Shinjo instinctively took a step back, feeling as if she had accidentally pressed some terrible button.

'Fusion Program Started'

Synchronizing with remote energy source...

Completed simultaneously

"Begin the integration and sublimation process—"

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And in the suburbs of Shenshui City, dozens of kilometers away

The bottom of the lake was a deathly dark place.

Sunlight could not penetrate this depth; the only source of light came from something that was pulsating violently.

It was a huge egg, with an eerie dark purple shell and a surface covered with vein-like patterns.

At this moment, those patterns are expanding and contracting at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if something inside the eggshell is frantically drawing energy.

The first force surged in.

That was the remnant soul of Golza, a thick, almost solidified black mist. The monster that was killed by Tiga's beam ten years ago had not truly perished. Its resentment and power transformed into a wisp of unwilling obsession, drifting deep into the ley lines of Kamisui City, searching for a vessel for revenge.

A second force followed closely behind.

That was the remnant of the Snow Card, which had been accidentally killed by the Fighting Card not long ago and had not yet completely dissipated. Although her physical form was shattered by the Fighting Card's sword, she still existed in a higher-dimensional conceptual level as a Clow Card. The moment Akane Shinjo wrote that line in her notebook, her existence was forcibly dragged into this crazy fusion ritual.

After absorbing the two forces.

The eggshell began to crack.

The cracks spread along the vein-like patterns.

The lake water surged and churned as the energy fluctuations stirred it, with countless bubbles rising from around the eggshell, like a boiling hot spring.

Then, a voice rang out from the void.

Not sound in the physical sense

At this depth, any sound waves would be distorted beyond recognition by the water pressure.

But the sound echoed clearly within a radius of several kilometers, as if it were directly engraved into the soul of every living being.

"The Power of Melba!"

"The power of Golza!"

"The Snow Clow Cards!"

Fusion—Sublimation—!

Three forces collided, intertwined, and reorganized violently inside the eggshell.

The lake water began to boil.

The eggshell then shattered completely.

Countless fragments scattered in all directions.

In the center of those fragments, a massive figure is slowly stretching its limbs.

It was a monster unlike any other, inheriting the basic form of Golza but also incorporating the pterosaur appearance of Melba.

"The Snow Demon Beast - Golbar!"

The voice rang out again, as if announcing the arrival of a new life.

The monster opened its mouth and let out its first roar.

Chapter 127 Melba

When Hiratsuka Shizuka and her group rushed back to the resort, it was already in complete chaos.

Several buses were parked neatly in place, their engines already running.

The male teachers were standing at the car door counting heads, while the resort staff were frantically stuffing their suitcases into their private cars, looking like they were fleeing a disaster.

Hiratsuka-sensei! Get on the bus!

A male teacher wearing glasses waved at her, his voice broken by the wind.

Hiratsuka Shizuka rushed to the car door and, without even catching her breath, began counting the number of people.

Are all the students here?

"Everyone's here! We've ordered three times already! Just you guys are missing! Hurry up and come on up!"

The male teacher was so anxious that he kept stamping his feet.

"This place is incredibly eerie; if we don't leave soon, something terrible might happen!"

After receiving an affirmative answer, Hiratsuka Shizuka immediately called everyone to get into the car.

A strong sense of foreboding suddenly rose in Qianyu's heart, and she couldn't help but turn around and look into the distance.

"Kazama! What are you dawdling for! Stop looking! Get in the car!"

"Is that feeling... still not over?"

Chiyu frowned, and only when Hiratsuka Shizuka repeatedly urged him did he have to look away and board the bus.

As the last student boarded the bus, the convoy immediately started moving.

The convoy of buses, full of teachers and students, resembled a startled snake, plunging headlong into the winding and rugged mountain road.

The atmosphere inside the carriage was terrifyingly oppressive.

Having experienced a haunted maze, a blizzard, and an earthquake, what should have been a joyful school trip has now turned into a survival battle.

Some people started chatting quietly, some took out their phones to browse social media, and some simply leaned back in their chairs and closed their eyes to rest.

Kazama Chiba sat by the window, her gaze fixed on the ever-shrinking outline of the resort.

The feeling of palpitation did not lessen as the distance increased; instead, it felt like an invisible hand gripping his heart tightly.

"Something's not right... that magic is still expanding."

He murmured something under his breath.

"What...what is that—"

Just then, a boy sitting on the left by the window suddenly pointed out the window.

His shout instantly attracted the attention of everyone on the bus.

Everyone's eyes turned to the window.

In the distance, below the mountain, the once lifeless, deep blue lake was now churning violently like boiling magma, with countless huge bubbles rising from the bottom and bursting open, releasing billowing white smoke.

"What's going on...?"

"Geothermal hot springs?"

"That can't be right, there was definitely ice there just now..."

"Could it be that a volcano is about to erupt?!"

The students were chattering amongst themselves.

However, their imaginations were clearly too limited, because what happened the next second completely shattered everyone's understanding.

"Gurgle—Boom!"

Then, accompanied by a roar that seemed to come from the depths of hell, the center of the lake suddenly exploded.

A huge column of water shot into the sky, piercing straight into the clouds.

Amidst the spray of water, a massive black shadow slowly rose and abruptly stepped onto the lake shore.

That was a monster capable of instantly reducing anyone's sanity to zero.

It has thick, armored skin similar to Golza, and its back is covered with Melbana's signature enormous wings, with rows of transparent ice crystal spikes rising from its spine.

What's most chilling is that the grotesque head has a mouth that radiates cold air.

"What...what is that?!"

"A monster?! You must be kidding me."

"Isn't this from a tokusatsu (special effects) movie? Why would something like this exist in real life?!"

"Help! I don't want to die! Mom! I want to go home!"

The carriages erupted in chaos, filled with screams and cries.

The students' values ​​were ruthlessly shattered at this moment. Faced with such surreal creatures that only appear on television, human reason seemed so fragile.

"Golza...no, it's not quite the same..."

Qianyu's lips moved slightly.

He recognized the monster's prototype: Golza.

Ten years ago, he used Tiga's power to blast away an ancient monster.

But the creature in front of us is clearly not a purebred Golza. Its body is covered in ice-blue scales and its back is covered in ice crystal spikes, all of which indicate that it has fused with some kind of power related to "ice and snow".

Snow Brand.

Qianyu's pupils suddenly contracted.

The Clow Card that was accidentally destroyed by the card game on the frozen lake and dissipated into conceptual particles was actually absorbed by this monster?!

The newly born Snow Demon Beast Gorba clearly didn't give humans even a second to accept reality.

It looked up and let out a roar powerful enough to shatter glass.