Even the power of Dawn could harm Farolynch with its searing light. He had experienced that firsthand in Sorens. Yet the light just now had burned only the vampire, leaving him completely unharmed.
As though sensing Farolynch's confusion, Mulan opened the Golden Gate and slowly stepped out, murmuring to himself in his mind.
For those who know Dawn, embrace Dawn, and trust Dawn, Dawn possesses Existential Force within their hearts, giving the resonance of its intervention a basis for existence.
No matter how many explanations the various magic books offered, magic power was, at its heart, the power of the impossible. Although Mulan had been studying different systems of magical theory and all kinds of magical knowledge, his thinking was not confined to existing frameworks. He believed that, given a sufficiently strong and pure conviction, even magic power could possess a will.
Farolynch did not hesitate for long. He reacted after just two seconds, leaping down from the tree and sprinting toward the wooded hills.
He did not know whether the vampire was alive or dead, but there was no need to take such a huge risk just to finish him off. He needed to reach the hills quickly. For such staggering power to have erupted, Mulan must already have arrived there.
The light had also terrified the townspeople at the edge of the woods, and they had yet to recover. Farolynch skirted around them and returned to the forest, soon reaching the cave he had left earlier. He could still sense the mother and her two children, which brought him a little relief.
Before he even entered the cave, Farolynch called out.
"Mulan? Mulan?"
But when he rushed inside, all he saw were the mother and her two children, whose faces instantly lit up with surprise and joy. The