As the battle between the two continued Vaelora attacks only became more and more intense. Her storm that was created as a result of her concept was completely shredding apart every illusion Shen casted. She fully intended to make this confrontation the last between the two of them.
Realizing his illusions are losing effect, Shen draws upon his Mandate of the Illusory Abyss. He created some separation and spoke.
|Mandate of Illusory Abyss|
HUMMMM!
He calls forth the Vines of Distant Echoes, creating a massive spiritual maelstrom around him. The abyss begins to expand, pulling at the fabric of space itself, as he tries to drag Vaelora into this pocket dimension, forcing her to face her deepest fears.
Everything happened so fast that Vaelora didn't have time to activate her Mandate in order to counterattack. Within an instant she found herself inside of a spiritual abyss. The spiritual abyss begins to distort her perception—visions of her past battles, the weight of leadership, and the duty of the Weapon Bearing Sect flood her mind. For a moment, it feels as if the universe is collapsing upon her.
Vaelora is momentarily shaken, but her unshakable will prevails. In this critical moment, she turns to her true strength. Since he decided to use his Mandate then she would to. Her Mandate of the Eternal Gale.
|Mandate of Eternal Gale|
She managed to say as she struggled to keep her sanity. The moment her Mandate activated she found it a bit easier to manage her situation. The Eternal Gale is not just a storm of physical destruction, but a force that represents constant change and transcendence.
She focuses on the winds of change that flow through her, channeling the chaotic energy of transformation. As the Abyss seeks to consume her mind, she draws upon her Mandate's essence, allowing the boundless gale within her to tear through the distorted reality Shen has created.
The Mandate of the Eternal Gale allows her to reshape the battlefield around her. She calls forth the winds of time—not to freeze or slow it, but to alter its course. She reverses the flow of Shen's illusions, turning the spiritual maelstrom into a whirlwind of clarity that sweeps the Abyss away. With the force of the gale, she shatters the illusionary realm and breaks free from the spiritual bindings Shen has placed on her.
HUMMMM!!!
BOOOOOOM!!!!
The Eternal Gale sweeps through her being, filling her with the winds of renewal and clarity, casting aside the fears and doubts that Shen had tried to plant in her mind. The mandate's power reshapes the very nature of her reality, transforming confusion into purpose.
Vaelora, now empowered by her Mandate of the Eternal Gale, stands firm. The storm of change surrounds her, her Aegis Spear crackling with cosmic energy. She sweeps her weapon forward, unleashing a wave of gale-forged energy that tears through the remaining illusionary tendrils of Shen's abyss.
BOOOM!!!
The Eternal Gale's influence intensifies as she harnesses its full power, unleashing a violent gust of destruction that blows away the spiritual distortions and cleanses the battlefield. In the face of her unstoppable force, Shen's illusions collapse under the overwhelming tide of change.
Time itself bends to her will as Vaelora calls upon the power of transformation. The very nature of the spiritual Abyss is rewritten, its power disrupted by the winds of the Eternal Gale, and Shen's attempts to hold her mind are obliterated.
With the Eternal Gale now fully unleashed, Vaelora strikes with precision and overwhelming force. The wind surrounding her becomes a whirlwind of destruction, her Shattered Aegis crackling with energy as it channels the tempest's power into a devastating blow.
CRACKLE
BOOOM!!!!!!
The storm of balance she wields is not just raw power—it is a force of transformation, undoing the spiritual distortion Shen sought to impose on her. With a final, sweeping motion, she unleashes the gale's fury upon him, a storm of light and energy that tears through his last defenses.
BOOOOOM!!!!!
Shen, unable to counter the overwhelming power of Vaelora's Mandate, is consumed by the storm. His illusions dissipate as the winds of the Eternal Gale tear apart his final vestiges of resistance.
Vaelora stood and watching the aftermath of her last blow. It was not a skill she created nor an ability, but it was pure essence of annihilation and transformation. Vaelora didn't win this battle through mere destruction, but through restoring balance and shifting the flow of energy with her Mandate's power.
After she looked for a while longer, she returned to watch the war from a distance again. With the Fox's Saint now dead, she was sure they would send another. This wasn't even to mention the Devils, they had yet to send any Saints to this Battlefield.
With this in mind she headed to recuperate her strength, she had no plans of leaving this battlefield any time soon. She would call for help from the others if she was getting overwhelmed due to numbers, but if not then she would hold this post down.
She was a woman who was born during a time of competition and war. She even played a role during the Forbidden War, so a place like this is where she found comfort.
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Back on the Battlefield with the Demons, the Saints all found themselves locked in heated battles with both Demons and Devils. As the fought higher above the lower ranked cultivators, the four wild cards that had been called up, were doing exactly what they needed to.
Standing tall with a spear in hand, Kael watched as the war raged on around him. He had just finish killing off a few Demons and Devils. Right now, he took the opportunity to bask in the feeling of this war.