The withered branch pierced Salu'ya's body, completely ignoring his shadow defenses.
At once, Salu'ya deflated like a punctured ball. Surges of shadow poured endlessly from the wound.
Dak'uru was completely unprepared. He did not even know what had happened. The sudden blast of shadow knocked him unconscious.
Twisted shadows steadily devoured Dak'uru's flesh. Shadow fire burned through his shirt, scorching his chest and shoulders black.
Talanji slowly rose, her upper body pitching forward. She stumbled before barely managing to steady herself.
Salu'ya's strength diminished at a visible rate. Talanji did not yet understand why the Loa's power was draining away so rapidly, but this was no time to finish him off.
Dak'uru was engulfed in the shadow energy gushing from Salu'ya's body, his life hanging in the balance. Talanji's first instinct was, I have to save him.
Drawing on Krag'wa's power, Talanji rapidly gathered the power of nature behind her, shaping it into a giant frog-like creature.
A long tongue shot from the frog's mouth and wrapped around Dak'uru.
Within those few seconds, Talanji's sensitivity to energy once again picked up the chaotic echoes within the power of shadow.
The clamorous whispers were exactly like the voices that had bewitched the Furbolgs.
Fortunately, the chaotic whispers grew steadily quieter. As shadow energy continued to gush out, Oracle Salu'ya gradually regained his senses.
The instant his awareness returned, he lashed out with his long tail, knocking Dak'uru free of the chaotic energy storm.
Talanji seized the opportunity and hurriedly swung Dak'uru onto a nearby patch of grass. Then emerald-green natural energy transformed into ripples like flowing water, spreading evenly across his chest.
Once Oracle Salu'ya had fully shaken off the maddening whispers, he immediately turned to save the faithful follower who had awakened his will.
Though Oracle Salu'ya was terribly weak,