This was the feeling she had the moment she first saw Kolun.
It was too familiar!
Far too familiar!
She had encountered something similar before, only the commotion then had been far greater and more exaggerated.
Although the Elf race did not judge the power granted by the Elf Tree based on the scale of the phenomenon, the fluctuations of that power alone gave Xilos the feeling that Kolun might become someone no weaker than her!
"How could he suddenly undergo such a qualitative change for no reason...?"
Shen Yi merely swept his gaze over her without directly answering Xilos's question.
Both Shen Yi and Xilos knew perfectly well what state the Elf Tree had been in before. Logically speaking, Xilos should have understood better than Shen Yi that this energy and power had not come from some qualitative change in Kolun.
"No!!"
Suddenly noticing a problem in the details, her fiery crimson pupils constricted sharply.
She looked toward Kolun and saw the ice crystal tremble violently. Her entire body began shaking as though she were a leaf in the wind.
Xilos's eyes, once as brilliant and fervent as the rising sun, abruptly dimmed as if veiled by a heavy mist. The instant her gaze touched that ice crystal radiating supreme chill, the light in her eyes went out. Even the long dress around her, engraved with countless flame runes, became endlessly gray in that instant. If Shen Yi and Natalie had not been beside her, Xilos's condition would have been even worse!
"This isn't the qualitative change you spoke of. Even after it ends, he'll probably find it difficult to reach your current level."
"Kolun has somehow bypassed my power and directly drawn upon the power within the Elf Tree. He's making a sacrifice."
Shen Yi's quiet words were