The child’s small body suddenly erupted with a brilliant earthy-gold light—his purest, core essence as the mountain god of this land.
Without the slightest hesitation, he poured the accumulated power of the earth—built up over countless years—into a massive, surging yellow torrent. It followed directly behind Cassius’s cyan pillar of light, merging into it and driving it forward.
Two streams of power—Cassius’s lifelong cultivation, his burning life force, and his very soul, combined with the child’s pure earth essence as a mountain god—raced together, wild and unreserved, into Logan’s body beneath the rubble.
“No—!!” Demonized Aukon roared, furious and panicked.
His dragon claw slashed down, but it only tore through the fading afterimages of Cassius and the child. Their bodies had already dissolved after giving everything, transforming into the purest particles of energy that drifted into the world. Only faint bluish-yellow motes of light remained, like fireflies—proof that they had once lived.
They sacrificed themselves for righteousness, and their souls returned to heaven and earth.
At that moment, the rubble burying Logan exploded outward!