Crack!
The Monocle on Amon's face shattered in an instant. His body turned into a flowing shadow and returned beneath Cyril's feet.
The previously prepared Secrets Sorcerer potion returned along with the shadow, going straight back into his body.
Then his figure began to collapse, points of starlight rippling out of him.
Each point of starlight was a worm formed from brilliant stellar radiance, its head and tail merging into the void as it glittered.
The glittering worms curled around one another, forming spheres of light. These spheres then stacked together, building layer upon layer of Illusory Doors.
Behind the Illusory Doors, a pitch-black shadow that could swallow all light slowly writhed.
The writhing shadow bulged and caved in by turns, as though it kept growing a chaotic face without any features, only for an unseen hand to forcibly press it back down.
A mercury-colored light abruptly lit up within the pitch-black shadow that swallowed all light.
The light flowed slowly through the dark shadow like water, gradually gathering into a closed ring. Then it began to turn, slowly, bit by bit, as though fate had begun to flow.
At the same time, aboveground, a night sky filled with brilliant stars abruptly descended, replacing the bright, sunny afternoon. Just as the glittering stars appeared, a "sun" rose, radiating immense light and heat capable of illuminating the entire world, the entire star system.
Beneath the blazing light of the "sun," all discord was purified and dispelled.
The glittering stars, which seemed to reveal hideous faces, had no choice but to dim beneath that sacred, searing light.
On the outskirts of Trier's Underground Catacombs, sunlight suddenly flooded the damp, gloomy passages, illuminating them completely and leaving not a trace of darkness or shadow.
This was the Unshadowed Domain after a qualitative