Layers of halo continued to spread around, illuminating the darkness, evaporating pus, and shattering crystals. Demons retreated in fear, but still, as if in slow motion, their ferocious forms melted away layer by layer in the radiance.
The most powerful witch of the Fifth Era, through Shard's hands, swept the light across the entire Dark Realm. Crystals melted layer by layer, darkness gradually receded, demons lurking in the light melted away, and the people outside the forest watched in surprise as everything around them changed.
The Crystal Forest and all the crystalline boulders storing humans beneath the trees flew out of the forest in the glow, then the surface of the crystals melted in the light, and the Circle Sorcerers broke free from their bonds, regaining consciousness one by one.
