Not only the six Elemental Divine Envoys—even Chen Rui was stunned.
If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed such a thing could happen.
Chen Rui did not know that, under the "man's" influence, the original reconstruction of the divine spark had become a reconstruction of its projection. A phantom could never sustain the rebirth will of the Elemental Goddess for long. Even if the man had not destroyed her will, she would still have dissipated when the allotted time ran out.
What Chen Rui could sense was that—even as a newly reconstructed divine spark projection and will, it possessed incomparably immense power. Though the Analytical Eye could not be used due to distance or spatial interference, he could tell by instinct alone that this power far surpassed even peak pseudo-gods at the SSSS+ and SSSS++ levels.
To be fair, the man had displayed neither an oppressive aura nor power beyond Laverti's. Yet he had effortlessly destroyed the phantom through which Laverti had descended.
Perhaps the man possessed some special power Chen Rui could not comprehend, but the true reason was likely that Elemental Goddess Laverti had not resisted. That was absolutely abnormal; there had to be some special reason.
During their prolonged exchange of gazes earlier, the two of them must have communicated many things outsiders could never know. Because of his angle, Chen Rui could not clearly sense the state of the man above him, but he could see the goddess Laverti's eyes across from him with perfect clarity.
Calm.
Even if Chen Rui could not understand that exchange, he could see the calmness that had run from beginning to end, remaining unchanged even in the face of annihilation.
Chen Rui had experienced much since transmigrating here. He was no longer