Chapter 2166

No one would doubt Elowen's words or believe she wouldn't go through with them. She was the Ten-Tailed Elythune communicable with the Divine Power. Her strength was far beyond that of any ordinary beast. If she wished to destroy Celestria, she could do so with nothing more than a flick of her finger, but they couldn't let her. Not just because annihilating all living beings would incur divine punishment from the Divine Power, but if Elowen were to fall into this abyss of grudge, she might give malice a chance to take hold. That was the same tactic Vlad had used on Lucan. Now, watching Elowen's supernatural energy surge violently and poised to take the lives of the remaining commoners in the capital, Shannon could no longer care about the tremors wrecking her divine soul. Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed Benjamin's hand. Golden light surged into her body and coated her damaged divine soul piece by piece. In the next moment, her divine soul manifested nine tails, each glowing with brilliant golden light. Without hesitation, she lunged toward Elowen. But she was just a nine-tailed. Even with Elowen's power weakened by 30%, she could barely be restrained. Their supernatural energies clashed. In that instant, Shannon was overwhelmed not by power, but by the flood and sorrow beneath Elowen's fury. Her heart clenched. An instinctive resonance from her past life allowed her to feel everything Elowen was enduring right now. It was a pain deep into the marrow, corroding every part of her divine soul. Shannon's eyes reddened. Without a second thought, she flew forward. Ignoring the injuries Elowen had inflicted on her, she threw her arms around the latter. With a shift of her thoughts, her body ignited with a pulse of white light. Both Benjamin and Velquin were stunned. In the moment Shannon embraced Elowen, a tenth tail manifested behind her. Her ten snow-white tails swayed gently behind her. Unlike Elowen's wrathful onslaught, Shannon's tenth tail exuded a soft, enveloping glow with starlike specks of mystic light. Instead of resisting Elowen's attacks, it flared out and quickly drew inward. With gentleness and powerful tolerance, the snow-white ten tails embraced the two in a cocoon, just like Elowen had done to Shannon in the mind domain. At that moment, their divine souls resonated. Elowen froze. Her raging power and wrath halted for a second, and in that pause, a familiar golden light flared at Shannon's wrist. The golden band connecting her to Benjamin glowed and cast its radiance over both her and Elowen in his arms. The warmth in that familiar golden light seemed to have miraculous soothing effects, draining Elowen of all her strength. The overwhelming urge to destroy and obliterate sputtered and dimmed under the golden light and embrace that held her. Seeing this, Benjamin swiftly pulled out a dragon scale, where golden light gathered. Then, he sent it flying forward and merged with the cocoon that wrapped Shannon and Elowen. Within the golden light, Shannon and Elowen witnessed a dreamscape from the golden light unfold before their eyes. It cast the truth about everything that had happened before Lucan's death. To protect the commoners from malice, Lucan gathered and shielded them in a field of golden light. To their surprise, a dozen or so within the crowd drew weapons tainted with malice and stabbed them into his dragon form. Both Lucan and the commoners were shocked, and after realization struck, more commoners charged at him. His eyes had flickered with grudge, and a mighty dragon's roar rang through the heavens. Just as he was about to trap them within his power and end it all, the commoners stepped forward. Some seized the ones who'd attacked, while others threw themselves in front and shielded him from ill-harbored intent. To protect him, some were wounded in his place. The grudge in Lucan's eyes vanished, but it was too late. Vlad's malice had entered his body through the blades that pierced him. Just then, Benjamin's voice sounded clearly in their minds. "Lucan could have used his remaining strength to expel the malice invading his form and divine soul, but in the end, he chose to destroy his divine soul and take Vlad with him." Once Vlad died, the commoners under his influence were freed and returned to normal. Lucan wasn't killed by the commoners of Celestria; he'd chosen to die for Celestria.