The description sounded extraordinary. More importantly, Iluna was fine now.
Shade helped Iluna to her feet. She seemed somewhat slow to react, still staring blankly around them. Shade, meanwhile, looked toward the stone pillar at the center of Lake Heart Island in this magma sea, black mud endlessly flowing from it.
The divinity was within it. He had sensed it from the beginning. If the Guardian had left even a step later, and Shade had absorbed the divinity to gain the temporary Divinity Overflow state beyond the Thirteenth Ring, then even if the Guardian was immortal in this region, Shade might still have had a way to deal with him.
His desire for power had reached its peak, but Iluna tugged at his sleeve as though she had finally come back to herself.
"Someone is whispering in my ear."
"What? Who?"
Shade immediately looked around, worried that someone unexpected might suddenly appear again.
"Not an enemy. It's... the soil beneath our feet."
She seemed to have understood something.
"I remember you said that when you first entered the black mud, a figure gave you the Turn Stone to Mud spell. And in the Legend Series about the Guardian that you just repeated, there was also the title 'Earth Spirit.'"
This was not consciousness formed by the earth, but it was nearly something similar. Shade understood it as a natural phenomenon, except this phenomenon manifested as though the earth had given birth to a soul.
"The earth told me some things."
Iluna spoke very seriously. This was entirely new information.
"To resolve the Guardian, we do not necessarily have to rely on large Fragments of the Heart of the Earth. If we can purify the earth, the Guardian, who has already merged with this land, can also be affected in turn