Berg'yan was using the Sunbird's innate ability, Flame Shadow Clone, a psionic Legendary Element that could create a great many clones. Each clone was two tiers weaker than the original. They looked exactly the same, while the original hid among them.
Flame Shadow Clone was more sophisticated than Mirror Image, enough to fool anyone, but it was useless before Rayne's eyes.
He locked onto one Sunbird at a glance. It was Berg'yan's true body.
Four Mirror Images used Thunderclap Leap, closing in from all four directions.
When they landed, their bodies had already swelled to more than fifty meters tall. Their feet unleashed 10th-level Thunderous Stomp, countless thick bolts of lightning striking Berg'yan as their enlarged Warhammers came crashing down.
Thunder boomed.
Berg'yan, shocked and enraged, self-destructed once more. Before doing so, however, it swapped places with a Flame Shadow Clone. The blast's power was far inferior to the previous Eternal Blazing Sun.
High-temperature flames swept over the four Mirror Images and blasted them away.
Berg'yan's true body appeared more than a thousand meters away. It had deliberately chosen the most distant Flame Shadow Clone, but before it could catch its breath, a Tenth Circle lightning bolt struck the top of its head. It had no time to dodge, and its wounds, which had just healed, were severely aggravated again.
A Mirror Image of Rayne appeared before it and brought its Warhammer down on its head.
Bang!
The Sunbird's head exploded, killing it instantly.
However, the power of Flame Shadow Clone lay in the fact that the instant the original was killed, it triggered Substitute Death Spell, causing another Sunbird's Flame Shadow Clone to bear the attack.
This was equivalent to combining the effects of Mirror Image, Mirror Image Technique, and Substitute Death Spell. That was why it qualified as