"How is this possible?" Varian stared at his right hand in disbelief. Near that area steeped in Sha energy, even the slightest contact would corrode the body. Not even the plants summoned by the Druids were spared.
Holy Light flared, and Varian dispelled the traces of Sha energy clinging to his hand. "Prophet Velen, do you have a way?" The Naaru's Holy Light of order was the natural enemy of all disorder and chaos.
Velen glanced at the Naaru beside him. After obtaining Kierlas's consent, he replied, "I can try."
Vast Holy Light energy surged from Velen, and a sacred pillar of light flowed into Kierlas as the Naaru and Velen cast together.
Light and shadow alternated. A sacred vortex instantly erupted from Kierlas, then an enormous sphere of Holy Light shot out, shining like a golden sun above the Gilded Fan.
The Mantid and Faceless Ones near the Gilded Fan, and even the Lesser Sha, were completely purified by the sphere of Holy Light. Wisps of black smoke rose even from the soil, and the land polluted by Sha energy seemed to regain its vitality beneath the sunlight.
"It worked." Tirion cleaved apart a Faceless One beside him with Crusader Strike. "Keep moving."
"Wait." Illidan called out to Tirion as he prepared to charge, stopping him from rushing to his death.
Reality was cruel, after all. The powerful Holy Light spell jointly unleashed by Velen and the Naaru had indeed purified the Gilded Fan, but that purification was only temporary.
Once the Holy Light's power dissipated, the towering Sha energy produced by the activated Heart of Y'Shaarj contaminated the Gilded Fan again, returning the ground to its polluted black-and-white state.
"This..." Tirion Fordring was dumbfounded too. The powerful spell unleashed by the Naaru and Velen together seemed to have