Ethan's brow tightened.
If this kept up, Idra was going to get overwhelmed—her power suppressed and reversed.
He was just about to step in when—
A sudden, familiar surge of energy flared above them.
Auri.
She appeared high in the sky, wings snapping wide open with a boom, like the night sky itself had been ripped apart.
Countless motes of light shimmered into being around her—like stars drawn into orbit. A blink later, they converged into a storm of energy blasts and tore down toward the white orb and the man beneath it in a blazing, sky-filling barrage.
And in that instant, something shifted.
The flow of energy across this entire space changed.
Like the world itself had finally recognized—
They were the ones who belonged here now.
The raw power Idra and Auri had been pulling in over the past days… had already brushed the limit. And now, with both of them unleashing at the same time, it wasn't just additive—it was reactive. This world amplified them.
