As Abner unleashed the full power of the Sun domain, several streets in East Borough blazed as bright as day. Almost every corrupt, evil, shadowy, or Fallen power below the Demigod level melted away within that Unshadowed domain.
Inside Saint Wind Cathedral, the newly appointed Archbishop of Backlund, Deep Blue High Priest Randall Valentinus, flew out of his room and rose into the sky.
Behind the Chanis Gate of St. Samuel Cathedral, Archbishop Saint Anthony had been standing by the stairs between the first and second floors, watching kindly as a newly recruited Nighthawk completed his paperwork. The next moment, his expression changed abruptly, and he frowned.
At Saint Hilleland Church, mere seconds after the Sun's power erupted, a figure shot out of the highest chimney atop the church and sped toward East Borough. It was one of Archbishop Horamick's mechanical bodies.
If even distant Demigods had reacted, Saint Tenebrous of the Aurora Order, who stood at the center of it all, had even more reason to move. He sprang straight out of the shadows.
He looked like a tall knight in full black armor and carried a long, broad straight sword.
Two clusters of Crimson Light flickered where his eyes should have been, fixed on the "ball of light" Abner had become.
He was about to end the fight quickly, using the Blade of Spirit and Flesh to extinguish the "ball of light" and rescue Lewis Wien, when his Spirituality suddenly sensed danger. He hastily switched the soul he was Grazing and leaped away through flames.
The instant he vanished, Black Flames laden with disease and curses flared up in the only shadow at his former position that the Sun had not illuminated. Using that shadow, they spread toward Saint Tenebrous across the distance.
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