Yes, there had to be someone else! Yu Lian made this decidedly arbitrary judgment.
One had to understand that Knight Commander Milekai wasn't a "Throne" but a "Confluence"! Yu Lian had always felt that the old gentleman's failure to become a demigod had a great deal to do with choosing the wrong career path.
Amid the shouts ringing in his ears—"For the Empire!" "Slay the demon dragon!" "Death before surrender!"—Yu Lian fully unfurled his spiritual perception, searching for the true source of the danger.
But just then, the Starrealm Knights projected into the area also let out battle cries. Wielding weapons made of light, they launched a suicidal charge at Yu Lian from every direction.
To be fair, they probably wouldn't have been so brave if they weren't projections.
In an instant, sword flashes, spear-shadows, and psionic blasts poured toward Yu Lian like waves of blinding light, swallowing his figure whole.
Yet Yu Lian seemed not to notice them at all. He turned his gaze away from the blackened-faced knight commander and searched for the hunched figure in gray robes. His naked eyes still found nothing, but his spiritual perception sensed far too many presences. He made no attempt to defend or dodge; with a mere thought, his body turned intangible.
This time, he didn't even maintain a blurred, shadowy form. He transformed directly into a stream of energy and light.
In the Void Realm, an "aether body" could still retain a vaguely human shape. In reality, however, all that remained was an indescribable tangle of light and shadow.
It was a presence that the eyes of the real world could scarcely comprehend: a vortex of information and energy in constant flux. Many Starrealm Knights felt a terrible dizziness, even through the eyes of their battle golems. It was a