Chapter 2302

The moment Mike revealed that answer, a strange, heavy silence fell over the group. Even Mike himself had trouble believing it at first. He'd interacted with Shannon's domain. Though he'd never entered the Ten-Tailed's domain after she formally inherited her tenth tail power, it didn't stop him from recognizing the familiarity when the Alternate Divine Power trapped him. What truly confirmed it was seeing Lexie and the others here. He hadn't arrived here by choice. While fleeing the Divine Power's detection, he'd accidentally stumbled into Shannon's domain. When the group was teleported here, he was pulled along through that connection. The reason he'd been able to use his spiritual energy even under the control of the Alternate Divine Power was not because he'd entirely broken free of its restraints. Instead, both his spiritual energy and the golden light Shannon had gifted him were recognized and accepted by her domain. Like the Divine Power, Shannon had been unable to sense