The Great Elder's Triumph

A dull tremor came from the stone door of the secret chamber, accompanied by the suppressed shouts and curses of the Imperial Guards. Elamari's eyes flew open.

She could clearly sense the violent fluctuations of spiritual energy outside—the signal that the royal spiritual energy of the Golden Palace had completely collapsed.

Dark Energy surged like a tide across every inch of the royal palace. Even in this deepest secret chamber, she could feel that suffocating pressure.

"The Golden Palace... has fallen..."

Elamari's nails dug deep into her palms, and her ice-blue eyes instantly filled with bloodshot veins.

She struggled to rise, only to fall back against the stone wall from the agonizing pain in her back. The black-purple scars left by Dark Magic were still spreading.

Ji Defa's arrogant, wild laughter drifted faintly from outside, the sound like poisoned ice awls stabbing into her heart.

Towering rage churned in her chest like magma. She would never allow the Elf Kingdom to perish in her hands!

Elamari tremblingly reached inside her armor and took out a crystal vial engraved with a Flame Rune.

Inside the vial floated a dark-red Pill, red as blood, its surface rippling with bizarre pill patterns.

This was the Elf Race's forbidden secret medicine, the "Soul Devouring Blood Burning Pill." It could instantly burn one's life potential to heal injuries and forcibly raise one's strength, but the price was the complete loss of cultivation afterward—or even immediate death.

"Ji Defa... what you betrayed was not only the royal family, but the entire Elf Race."

"If I do not kill you, I swear I am not human!"

Elamari roared, twisting open the stopper. A scorching medicinal fragrance instantly filled the chamber, and the Pill actually gave off faint cracking sounds the moment it touched the air.

She looked