Not long ago, a similar meteorfire had fallen within Louise's domain, though it had been a shower of blue thunderfire.
Connecting the dots to Shannon's special cultivation techniques, Louise vaguely understood how the meteorfire came about.
Imitation and imagination weren't what made Shannon terrifying. What truly unsettled Louise was Shannon's ability to turn imagination into reality…
A power like that was no different than the Might of the Divine Power, wasn't it?
As her thoughts spiraled, a figure suddenly appeared beside her. It was Benjamin who had been standing beside Shannon moments ago.
He had teleported to her side, with something clearly urgent at hand. As expected, he requested, "Would you mind bringing someone over, Lady Ruler of Foxes?"
…
Nobody realized how Louise had disappeared, only to reappear out of nowhere. Instead, their attention was focused on where the golden meteorfire landed.
As the meteorfire continued to fall, the barrier that had shielded Vlad and the remaining black demonic souls finally began to show signs of cracking.
Despite the depleting strength of her divine soul, Shannon persisted through gritted teeth and shifted her mudra again.
"Gods of sky, fire, and heart; heed the call, descend with might… By my decree, heaven and earth, comes thunderfire!"
Thousands of golden meteorfire streaks transformed into thunderfire as they rained down, each strike slamming into the black barrier.
Cracks rapidly spread across its surface until it split apart with a sharp crack, crumbling into countless fragments of black.
The few remaining black demonic souls within the barrier were struck again by the thunderfire, yet they continued to shield Vlad's body, refusing to yield.
As the last of the refined meteorfire began to fade, Reuben and Thalia sprang into action. The next second, hundreds more bolts of thunderfire rained down in succession.
Laced with golden light, the sheer force of the onslaught was so overwhelming that even the mightiest beats couldn't withstand it.
At last, as the final demonic soul disintegrated into black dust under the searing thunderfire, everyone instinctively turned their gaze toward the dust, where Vlad should've been.
Just moments earlier, she had quickly told Benjamin about the truth behind Velquin's divine soul while he assisted her in forging the refinement array.
She couldn't divert her focus on bringing anyone into the domain herself, so she had asked Benjamin to let Louise handle it.
And now, Trevaris was here. This meant Vlad had nowhere left to hide.
Shannon's domain was infused with the power of phoenix, and Vlad, harboring Velquin's divine soul, could blend perfectly within it, masking his presence even from her, the domain's owner.
That was how he had slipped away from the Four Elements domain before. However, the same trick wouldn't work twice—not this time.
Shannon might not have been able to distinguish the presence of the phoenix's divine soul within her domain, but Trevaris could. After all, everything in the world had its natural counterbalance.
Even if she couldn't suppress Vlad, there would always be something or someone who could. Trevaris was precisely that existence.
Vlad had always known that Velquin's soul was a double-edged sword, but he never imagined that the very clone he had created to protect himself had now become a force capable of undoing him.
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