The players fighting the Holy Church Knights were the first to notice the change.
They discovered that the enemies before them had suddenly weakened. Their strength and speed were declining, and particles of light kept drifting out through the gaps in their armor, seemingly connected to their transformation.
Before long, these particles of light gathered into ribbons, spiraling toward the center of the light barrier.
The players fighting the Holy Church Knights were dumbfounded, because their enemies had all stopped moving, one after another, frozen in their last poses.
"This is..."
Wang Chong was astonished. A Holy Church Knight Captain's helmet hung from the tip of his spear, and he discovered that it was empty. Only when he leaned closer did he realize that the entire suit of knight armor was empty. Its contents had vanished without a trace.
The same scene played out among the Collectors whose faith had been invaded and who had defected to the enemy. Their bodies gradually dissolved, causing Song Yingwen, Di, Yu Dawei, and the others fighting them to stop and look toward the center of the light barrier.
There, countless Goddess Statues and motes of light converged and began fitting together, with particles of light filling the gaps, gradually forming a new body that was larger, brighter, and more dazzling.
They were assembling a new god statue!
Shi Lei reacted almost immediately, realizing what kind of magic this was.
It was some kind of Deity Descent spell.
The being it sought to summon was the one residing in the Holy Capital, known as the Radiant Goddess.
The spell demanded an immense price. It required the bodies and souls of vast numbers of blind believers as its foundation and god statues as its bones to forge a new god statue capable of bearing divine