Her voice was dripping with disdain as she said, "They thought they could control divine power, but it turned out that they had only overestimated themselves. Serves them right."
The raven-haired woman snorted before saying, "Don't be so happy yet. I didn't say that they were all killed. In fact, most of them survived."
This information turned the face of the red-haired woman sour. She frowned as she said, "What happened?"
Her friend replied, saying, "As it happened, the scholars were prepared for this outcome. They had a talisman that had been prepared to target the will of the world and quickly released."
"I was too far away when it happened, so all I saw was a white flash of light. But some people who were close by saw what they did, so they said that the talisman released white silk that entered the array and wrestled back control of it."
