The dark power as thick as ink instantly filled the church, and Ellie and the others were wrapped in this powerful force, making it difficult to breathe. In the darkness, there seemed to be countless pairs of invisible hands pulling at them, attempting to drag them into an endless abyss.
"Everyone be careful!" Ellie shouted loudly, her voice extraordinarily weak in the darkness. She focused her mind and tried to mobilize her supernatural powers to dispel the dark force, but the dark force was like a raging tide that kept hitting her mental defenses.
Lucas and Locke let out low growls in the darkness, and in their werewolf forms, they lunged in the direction where the black-robed man was by instinct. However, the hindrance of the dark power slowed their movements, and every step forward was exceptionally difficult.
"Damn it, this dark power is too strong!" Lucas gritted his teeth as his body continued to struggle in the darkness, trying to break through the bonds.
Laila was struggling to fly in the air, the black flame in her hand's light becoming weaker and weaker under the erosion of the dark power. "We can't be defeated like this, there must be a way!" Her voice was filled with determination.
Ellie took a deep breath as she closed her eyes and tried to calm herself down. In the darkness, she began to recall her previous experiences of fighting against various dark forces, and those moments when she had broken through her predicament continued to surface in her mind. Suddenly, she felt a mysterious power surging within her body, a potential that she had never realized before.
"Could this be the key to a breakthrough?" A glimmer of hope surged in Ellie's heart, and she decided to take a chance.
Ellie concentrated all of her spirit and combined this mysterious force with her supernatural ability. She felt a strange resonance with the dark power around her, no longer a mere confrontation, but a mutual intermingling.
As Ellie tried, the dark power seemed to be tugged by some sort of pull and began to slowly rotate around her. A faint circle of light gradually appeared around Ellie's body, and this light, although faint, appeared particularly dazzling in the darkness.
"Ellie, what are you doing?" Lucas shouted in surprise, he could feel the change in the dark power.
"I don't know, but I seem to have found a way to communicate with the dark power." There was a hint of excitement in Ellie's voice, "Everyone, focus and cooperate with me!"
Lucas, Locke, and Lyla sniffed, releasing their power and converging it towards Ellie. Ellie fused the crowd's power with her own, then violently pushed this powerful force towards the core of the dark force.
Under the combined attack of the crowd, cracks began to appear in the dark power. The cracks grew larger and larger, and the light grew brighter and brighter. Finally, with a loud bang, the dark force was completely torn apart, and light was restored to the church.
The congregation collapsed to the ground in exhaustion, panting heavily. They looked at each other with relieved smiles on their faces.
"We did it!" Locke shouted excitedly.
However, before they could celebrate, the black-robed man suddenly let out an eerie laugh. "You guys think you can defeat me with this? Too naive." The black-robed man slowly raised his head, his face revealing a bizarre mask that only revealed a pair of eyes that emitted a red glow.
"You guys have no idea what you're facing." The black-robed man said, his hands quickly forming seals and chanting under his breath. Suddenly, a black rune appeared on the walls of the church, and the rune flashed with a strange light as an even stronger dark power began to converge.
"Is this a ... Dark Forbidden Spell?" Laila cried out in alarm, "He's going to release the Darkness Forbidden Spell!"
Ellie's heart tightened, she knew the power of the Darkness Forbidden Spell, once it was released, the entire town and even the entire world would face extinction. "We can't let him have his way!" Ellie stood up once again, her eyes filled with firmness and determination.
Just as the black-robed man was about to complete the release of the Darkness Forbidden Spell, Ellie suddenly felt an unprecedented connection between her supernatural abilities and the natural elements around her. Not only could she manipulate the elements of air currents, fire, water, and earth, she could also sense the fluctuations of time and space.
"Could this be the final form of my psychic ability?" A thought flashed through Ellie's mind, and she decided to use this new power to stop the black-robed man.
Ellie focused her mind and merged her consciousness into time and space. She felt the flow of time slow down under her manipulation, and space began to distort.
The black-robed man seemed to have sensed the abnormality, and his movements paused for a moment, a hint of panic appearing in his eyes. "What ... are you doing?"
Ellie did not reply as she continued to increase her manipulation of time and space. Under her efforts, the time and space around the black-robed man began to be confused, and his dark forbidden spell was disturbed as a result.
"No!" The black-robed man shouted in terror as he desperately tried to break free from the bonds of time and space, but all to no avail.
In the end, under Ellie's formidable power, the black-robed man's darkness forbidden spell was completely disintegrated. The black-robed man let out a desperate scream as his body gradually disappeared in the turbulence of time and space.
Ellie collapsed on the ground in exhaustion, and Lucas, Locke, and Laila rushed over and helped her up.
"Ellie, how are you doing?" Lucas asked anxiously.
Ellie smiled weakly, "I'm fine ... We did it again."
The crowd looked at each other with relieved smiles on their faces. They knew that although this battle was difficult, they had once again guarded the peace of the world.
However, Ellie knew in her heart that this was only a temporary victory. The appearance of those mysterious energy fluctuations and dark forces signaled that there were more crises waiting for them. But she was not afraid, because she knew that as long as they were united, there was no difficulty that could not be overcome.
As the sunlight once again poured onto the congregation through the church's windows, Ellie slowly stood up as she looked into the distance, her eyes filled with determination and anticipation. There was still a long road ahead, but she believed that they would be able to uncover all the secrets and guard the balance and peace of this world. And this breakthrough in a desperate situation had also given her a deeper understanding of her psychic abilities, and she knew that she still had more potential waiting to be tapped.