At last, Vanessa gathered her spirituality to its utmost limit, scorching light spilling from her eyes.
She slowly tilted her head back.
Black flames gathered and spread, completely enveloping the passage before blotting out the sky.
Vanessa stood alone beneath them, her head raised, like a mortal gazing up at the black sun in the heavens.
Then that sun bore down!
The black flames burned ever fiercer, like the heavens crashing to earth, a great sun hurtling toward that insignificant mortal!
And the white light flowing through Vanessa's eyes hummed like bursting flames, instantly swelling into a blazing white sphere, like a newborn sun rising, like radiance that had shone through eternity slowly opening its eyes!
The black flames struck the scorching light. No sound could be heard. The world was silent, trembling faintly, as though shuddering.
The radiant flames burned, feeding on the burning black fire. As they rose, the whole world burned!
The newborn sun pushed through the layers of clouds. It did not regard those clouds as a barrier, yet the clouds had to take on the colors of dawn.
In a single instant, the black flames burned away, and the falling black sun became pure radiant flame!
The radiance burned upward along the flames, instantly engulfing the man before spreading toward the other side of the passage.
The spiritual light in Tobias's eyes receded. His body twisted strangely as he ducked behind Trenchard, while the other nobles had to face that blazing sun.
That newborn sun did not look at them. It looked at no one. It simply rose.
And those it illuminated had to endure the radiance spilling down!
The spirituality within Vanessa rapidly ebbed away. [Secret Art: Overdraw] was about to end. She swayed and collapsed to the ground, panting as she looked up.