Boom!
A massive solar explosion erupted on the elevated platform, like a miniature sun detonating and unleashing light and heat in every direction. Against the desolate backdrop of the distant Great Sun Pyramid collapsing, it looked like a solar apocalypse at the end of the world.
The purifying divine spell unleashed by the two high priests working together was astonishingly powerful. If it had hit Murphy, even ten lives wouldn't have been enough to save the vampire lord.
It was an insurmountable elemental disadvantage. Hit a vampire with solar psionic energy, and they wouldn't even get a chance to cry out. It was just like when Murphy used the Omega Program to effortlessly crush Chaos creatures without restraint. Now he was on the receiving end of the same miserable treatment.
Murphy had never been one to court death by facing a high priest of the Great Sun head-on in the holy city of the Church of the Great Sun.
Besides, that solar explosion had looked spectacular, but it hadn't hit anyone, had it?
When the scorching light faded, the elevated platform had been burned into glass. Aside from the lingering traces of battle, Murphy, Triss, Khufu, Fuli'er, A-Feng, and even High Priest Pafei—who had been ambushed by his own people and left on the brink of death—were nowhere to be seen.
They had escaped!
The two high priests, each bleeding profusely from more than a dozen stab wounds, were furious.
A few minutes later, the unlucky fellow Murphy had banished to the Astral Plane returned to the Material World. Under the command of three high priests, several thousand priests and sun warriors across the City of the Great Sun, along with their many attendants, were mobilized to search the entire city.
That was a terrifying prospect for the vampires. The