I reign supreme in the Western fantasy world for eternity.

Like playing whack-a-mole, wherever Evan appeared, he would be immediately destroyed by Ji Tian. But not long after, a sudden change occurred.

Evan's body reformed once again amidst the swirling dust.

This time, his features were more solid than before, and in the gaps between the shadows surging on his body, wisps of silvery-white electric arcs began to flicker, slowly crawling along the edges of his shoulder blades, knuckles, and cheekbones.

He raised his palm, above which floated a constantly twisting, silvery-white ball of light, with tiny crackling sounds emanating from within.

Thunder-related authority.

He succeeded.

"Ha ha ha ha--!"

Evan's laughter echoed in the empty space, releasing his pent-up emotions with an almost manic joy.

After dodging Ji Tian's attack with lightning speed, Evan grinned maliciously:

"Guess why I always seem to move further and further away from those fairies?"

He stepped back again to dodge the attack, and the ground beneath his feet crackled with electricity the moment he landed, with charred cracks spreading outwards along his footprints.

"That's exactly what I wanted to do to put you on your guard!"

After saying that, he began to fight back.

With the blessing of the lightning-based authority, his speed far exceeded Evan's previous performance.

A long, narrow trail of silver lightning streaked through the air as his figure suddenly appeared before Ji Tian. His right fist, crackling with lightning and shadow, slammed straight at Ji Tian's face.

He wants an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!

He was now eagerly anticipating seeing the hero suffer a setback.

A sharp explosion rang out in the air, and the shockwave ripped up the rubble on the ground, sending it flying in all directions like shrapnel.

Ji Tiansheng Sword spun horizontally, its blade angled to deflect the force of the heavy punch to the side. Lightning grazed his shoulder, exploding into a charred crater in the ground behind him.

"Is your puppet fairy finished? It's a bit slow, isn't it?"

Evan's shoulders jerked violently.

A moment later, he slowly raised his head, his face full of astonishment.

"You... you already guessed it?"

"you guess?"

Evan laughed. "Then why didn't you stop me?"

"Because I also want to see what you'll be like when you lose control."

Evan's laughter stopped abruptly.

He didn't understand Ji Tian's words, but the feeling of "being used as an experimental subject" stung him.

As someone who has always considered himself a researcher, being turned into an object of observation is more unacceptable to him than physical pain.

No, given Evan's personality, as long as the experimental results are shown to him, and as long as the other party's level is higher than his own, he wouldn't care even if he were used as a test subject.

It was the rising madness within him that influenced him!

He slowly stood up, the air around him beginning to hiss. "Out of control? We'll see who loses control first!"

His body was enveloped in lightning, constantly switching between darkness and lightning, at a speed more than twice as fast as before.

"Are you still calm now? Are you still confident that everything is under control? Come on!"

Ji Tian moved almost simultaneously, already prepared to receive the lightning bolt.

As the holy sword was drawn, imbued with the power of faith and the acceleration effect of the wind-elemental authority, his figure slid sideways just before the lightning arrived.

The purple arcs of electricity swept past his shoulder, exploding once again in the ground, leaving a deep, bottomless scorch mark.

Evan's second shot followed immediately.

He conjured a ball of compressed black energy in his left hand and held a spear made of lightning in his right. The two completely different forces formed simultaneously in his palm and were then thrown at him.

Two beams of light, one black and one purple, intertwined in the air like two snakes devouring each other, strangling towards Ji Tian.

Ji Tian's body became elemental, and just before the pillar of light was about to touch him, he transformed into a flowing wind, passing through the gap between the two forces.

He reformed himself behind Evan, and the holy sword rose from below, its blade precisely striking the junction between Evan's nape and shoulder blade.

The golden holy light and the dark purple lightning arc exploded simultaneously at the point of contact, blasting the two of them back several feet.

After another long battle, Evan realized something was wrong: the hero was actually feeding him moves, trying to accelerate his madness.

The outcome was exactly as Ji Tian had hoped.

Evan looked down at his left hand.

The finger was becoming transparent at a visible speed, as if it were being swallowed up from the inside by something.

His expression finally froze.

"you--"

"It's common sense to consolidate what you already have before seeking more power. But it seems you've already missed your chance."

Evan gritted his teeth and let out a growl from deep in his throat.

I tried so hard, why are you still alive?

No, if this continues, I'll definitely go crazy. I have to find a chance to escape.

He will have a chance if he can enter deeper into the space and gain more authority.

Thinking of this, a resolute look flashed in Evan's eyes. He relaxed his rationality again, hoping to gain more authority in the World Tree.

Just as he had guessed, he successfully opened the portal to the next level, which should have been accessible only to members of the same faction.

His figure transformed into a dark purple bolt of lightning, shooting towards the rift like an arrow in the brief moment Ji Tian dodged to the side!

The lightning flashed briefly at the edge of the crack before disappearing completely into the depths of the emerald green light.

The crack slowly closed.

The World Tree has fallen silent once more.

Ji Tian sheathed his sword and did not give chase.

He stood there, gazing thoughtfully at the direction where the crack had disappeared.

Is it possible to gain power at the cost of one's own madness? Perhaps the so-called inner demons are just some kind of disguise.

However, this also proves that the power Lilith obtained is most likely a time reversal, otherwise Evan would definitely have used this move given his personality.

"Let's go," he said to Lilith, his tone slightly more relaxed than before.

Lilith rushed over: "He ran away?"

"Um."

"Then why don't you pursue her?"

Ji Tian turned around and walked towards the ruins blasted out by the forbidden spell. His gaze fell on two disheveled figures deep within, and he said calmly:

"I've confirmed everything I wanted to confirm."

"What is it?"

"First of all, the logic of the World Tree's authority distribution is that whoever completes the final kill of the fairies will obtain the new authority."

"Secondly, Evan's attack just now didn't use any 'authority'; he used the authority of the World Tree itself. This shows that while he was being consumed by his inner demons, he gained more control over the tree."

"Last and most importantly, you can go back in time after gaining new authority; you are special."

Lilith stood there, stunned, only thinking about Ji Tian saying "she is special," her face flushed with shyness. Before she could even ponder the weight of those words, she heard Ji Tian's voice ring out again:

"Mia and Xiaohua are seriously injured. Let's check on their condition first."