"Shit," she hissed under her breath, realizing what was happening. "It's a Divine power crystal…"
Her fear overtook her, and without a second thought, she spun on her heel and started running. "Run! Everyone, run!" she shouted, her voice sharp and filled with urgency.
She slamd her comms unit, sending out rapid-fire orders to the Bio-chanical soldiers and any other chanical forces still scattered across the battlefield.
"Get the hell out of here! Fall back to the second layer!" Her voice was barely steady as she tore through the ruins, putting as much distance between herself and the rising fla phantom.
Behind her, the Bio-chanical soldiers imdiately began retreating, their massive Dreadscale Wyrms rumbling as they charged away.
Even though every instinct scread at her to run faster, to put as much distance as possible between herself and that phantom, Selina forced herself to stop.
She stopped to look back; she knew the fear she experienced earlier should be so kind of passive ntal attack exerted by Divine creatures on low-level life forms.
"Damn that old Half-Drow," Selina spat, with anger, it didn't take long for her to piece together what was happening.
The divine power stored in the golden crystal had combined with the remnant consciousness from the broken statue.
That fool of a Half-Drow Leader had managed to pull off one final trick before vanishing. He had summoned the real consciousness of the Goddess he worshipped to destroy them all.
"If only I had known he possessed a Divine Power Crystal, I would have acted more aggressively to get my hands on one myself," She could feel it now—an aura of raw, divine power.
Even for her or any other high-level officials of the Shadow Society, getting their hands on a Divine Power Crystal is not so easy, just because only Divine creatures can create these things.
It's kind of like an Innate ability of the Divine Creatures that others cannot copy, but these Divine crystals can be used for many purposes, with endless applications.
She doesn't know how much power was left in the Divine Power Crystal that the Half Drow used to escape from the void space, but even the residual energy was enough to make her sweat.
The fla goddess hadn't even fully awakened her consciousness yet, but the just weight of her presence was enough to nearly paralyze Selina.
If the phantom were fully awake and faced that attack before unless it was her true body, the current clone would have been dead already.
Selina's face twisted into a grimace. It wasn't her real body—just one of her clones, she didn't care much about herself—but the loss of the Bio-chanical soldiers would be catastrophic.
They weren't disposable like her; each one represented years of investnt, carefully nurtured from birth, augnted with chanical Fire enhancents, and trained to elite standards.
If they were wiped out here, it would lower her rank as a Shadow ssenger and beco a laughingstock for other ssengers.
Behind her, the ground began to shake violently as the fla goddess's phantom solidified further and attacked randomly, destroying everything that was within its reach.
"Is this the true power of the Divine Creature?" Selina thought, looking at the phantom that looked less like a benevolent goddess and more like a fire demon.
Just the first fire wave alone spared no one. The fog that once shrouded the ruins was instantly cleared, revealing the full devastation.
Everything within hundreds of ters of the phantom was incinerated, the heat was so intense that it lted the rubble, transforming the surrounding shattered stone buildings and the massive stone palace into molten lava.
The ground cracked and rivers of molten stone began to form. Screams filled the air as those who hadn't fled in ti were consud by the fire.
Many Half-Drow soldiers, unaware of the danger, didn't even have ti to react before they were reduced to ash.
However, it didn't bother them, more and more Half Drows ran towards the Fire phantom, sacrificing themself to add more energy to complete the awakening.
Even many shattered professionals and Bio-chanical soldiers who couldn't run fast, caught in the shockwave were engulfed by the flas and died before taking a few more steps.
The fire waves continued to spread, sweeping away everything in their path. In the distance, Selina could see the huge fire phantom's eyes beginning to glow, a sign that its consciousness was slowly waking.
anwhile, Ram wiped the blood from his brow, glancing toward Mai, Sid, and the others as they regrouped.
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Thanks to the sudden support from the robots, they were able to kill all the half-drows without any causalities or serious injuries, when they were ready to push forward, deeper into the battlefield.
A sudden shift in the monts of Bio-chanical soldiers and other professionals who had been fighting monts before now fleeing back toward the second floor without hesitation made Ram and others pause.
No one even stopped to shout a warning. Knowing that sothing was wrong, they turned back and joined the fleeing soldiers.
"What the hell is happening again?" Sid growled, his eyes narrowing as he ran with others.
Before anyone could answer him, a massive wave of fire surged across the battlefield, its scorching heat sweeping through the air like a tidal wave, cutting through the dense fog that had clouded their vision.
The firestorm revealed the carnage below—smoldering ruins, molten debris, and charred bodies littering the ground.
Ram's breath caught in his throat as the scene he saw after reaching the second floor stunned him.
There, standing at the center of the destruction, was a towering figure—a massive humanoid fire demon.
Its body was made of molten lava, and with every swing of its enormous arms sent another wave of searing flas across the battlefield, incinerating everything in its path.
"Oh my God..." Ram muttered under his breath, his eyes wide with disbelief.
Mai's gaze hardened, "That's no ordinary fire elental… It's a goddamn demon." Even from this distance, Ram and others could feel the heat on their skin.
Just as the fire phantom's consciousness seed on the verge of fully awakening, its movents ca to a sudden stop.
The phantom tilted its head toward the sky. Its body pulsed with rage and confusion.
"Roar," then, a deafening, primal roar erupted from its burning maw, echoing across the ruins, making everyone that escaped hold their ears.
It was as if the phantom was challenging sothing unseen—an entity beyond comprehension.
While everyone watching, they felt the weight of the air change. An imnse pressure began to build, descending from the surrounding void, crashing down upon the fire phantom's body like an invisible mountain.
The phantom's flas flickered violently, its body distorting under the weight of whatever force now opposed it.
Selina watched in disbelief as the indomitable fla phantom struggled under the force of this unknown pressure, its fire dimming ever so slightly, as though it was being subdued by an overwhelming power.
She allowed herself a brief sigh of relief. "Finally," she muttered, her voice laced with both exhaustion and a bitter edge from losing a large number of chanical soldiers without gaining anything back. "The Divine Spirit Tree's taking action."
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