The moment the Soul Tower trembled, the flame-patterned stone gate exploded open. A figure of silver flame hurtled through the mirror door, racing inward.
Barefoot, she landed with a soft thud. Her fire-veined sword remained sheathed, yet flames erupted from her bones and blood.
—it was Elea.
Her body was no longer mortal, but an Oath of Flame Spirit Form: a forbidden manifest, forged by burning away blood, soul, vow, and love.
She had but one goal: to bring Evelynn back.
Convergence of Spirit Realms
In the dream realm, Evelynn knelt amid a sea of flame, her body ,ed in bloodfire.
Her hands still clamped tightly onto the chains formed by Isael, the Cracked Moon Apostle. The chains sought to pierce her heart, branding the Bone King's seal onto her flame soul.
"You are an empty vessel," Isael whispered. "He needs only your flame blood, not your will."
"Unfortunately for you, I've never lost to will."
Evelynn grit her teeth, eyes blazing. Flame patterns spread across her back, incinerating the chain marks inch by inch.
Just as the chains were about to tear through her chest, a streak of silver flame slashed down from the sky, shattering the dream barrier and splitting the spirit realm.
Elea, wielding the Silver Oath Sword, cleaved the chains with a single strike from the sea of fire.
Flame mist exploded, shaking the spirit realm!
"You're too late," Evelynn gasped.
"But I haven't missed you." Elea's gaze held a born from near-loss as she looked at her.
She removed her outer robe, covering Evelynn's bare shoulders and back—gentle movements, yet restrained to the point of agony.
Isael retreated to the heights of the flames, watching them coldly: "Will you burn your soul to ashes as well, to bury her?"
"She is a queen you cannot defile." Elea raised her sword, silver flames coiling around her as oathfire into phantom wings.
"I am her flame shield—so long as the flame oath endures, the oath-bearer shall not perish."
Three Souls at War: Passion and Ruin
Isael howled in rage, his bone flames churning into a crescent-moon demon seal, seeking to seal the entire dream realm.
In that moment, a third presence crashed in with overwhelming force—
It was Lucian.
He'd forced open a spirit bridge, stepping into the realm using the Flame Lord's seal. The pain of soul drew blood from his lips, yet his smile remained cruel.
"Didn't expect you'd start without me."
The instant he landed, he drove his flame into Isael's back. Flame souls resonated, the explosion shaking the entire dream realm's plane.
For the first time, the three stood side by side in the dream's abyss, each with their own flame patterns blazing behind them.
Lucian's cold gaze slid to Elea, jaw tight: "You used the flame oath to enter—for her, or for yourself?"
Elea said nothing, only gently shielding Evelynn behind her.
"You guard her life. I guard her heart."
Evelynn looked at them both, then bit her finger, drawing a dual-flame symbol on her palm.
"You two—one is the flame I trust, the other is the oath I cannot abandon."
She turned, pressing her palm to Lucian's chest, and offered her other hand to Elea.
"Together, the three of us will hold this spirit realm."
Isael roared to the sky, bone flames ing the entire flame soul world.
He spread his arms, tearing a blood gash across his chest to reveal the Bone King's Eye.
"Then die together."
Flame Oath Shatters the Realm
Evelynn suddenly kissed Lucian, while pressing her forehead to Elea's.
In that instant, their three spirit powers converged.
Evelynn whispered:
"Flame Lord's fire, flame oath's soul, flame shadow's desire—three flames as covenant, shatter the realm's gate."
With her as the core, the three flames intertwined, becoming a divine flame nucleus.
The entire spirit realm—exploded!
Outside the Soul Tower, firelight turned night to day. The sky above the Flame Capital blazed with soul fire, scattering flocks of birds.
The mirror platform shattered, the Soul Tower collapsed.
But when the smoke cleared, Evelynn stood calmly on the fire-scorched earth, her hair billowing in the flame wind. Beside her stood Elea and Lucian, bloodied but with burning eyes.
She murmured:
"Bone King… next time, it will be I who enters your dream."