The Beginning of the Eternal Flame of the Phoenix (3 updates, 10,000 characters completed)

On the Light Screen, the Thousand Herrscher was laughing—a terrifying laugh, layered with overlapping voices.

It contained the voices of men, women, the old, and the young, countless different sounds blending together into an extremely eerie chorus.

Then, amid Kiana's fury, the Thousand Herrscher spoke. "Kiana, give up struggling!"

In an instant, Kiana discovered in shock that her Herrscher of the Void powers had been taken away.

Kiana's pupils contracted. "How!? Could it be... because I went too deep? No, it's not just that. It's..."

As her gaze shifted, a huge number of Thousand Herrschers descended. Wearing twisted smiles, they grinned grotesquely at Kiana amid the tangled threads. "They... completed their metamorphosis too..."

Yes, the Thousand Herrscher had grown stronger as well.

When all thousand of them became one in purpose and decided to give it everything they had, they completed the metamorphosis of their domination powers and attained their truly strongest form.

Moreover, the powerful domination powers deep within the Theater of Domination worked together with the Thousand Herrschers to seize Kiana's Herrscher of Void powers.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this sudden increase in strength that Fu Hua and Bronya, who had previously been able to contend with the Thousand Herrscher, were so easily defeated and captured.

Now, aside from her own strength as a Valkyrie, all Kiana could rely on was the power of the Gem of Haste and Murata Himeko's broken Godslayer Sword.

Looking at Kiana now, the Thousand Herrscher spoke contemptuously. "Without the powers of a Herrscher, you're nothing but an ordinary... weakling!"

As those words fell, a massive black "iron man" emerged from the darkness. Using the Herrscher of Domination's threads, it controlled multiple golden metal arms, with threads connected to the fingers of every hand.

Those puppets, along with the threads binding