"Who is it?! Who ruined everything for me?!" Gresham roared, with his fury making him look like a raging lion.
He could not accept that his long-awaited chance to become an immortal had slipped through his fingers. Failing to secure the True Immortal's essence was already bad enough. To make things worse, it had disappeared into the void!
Meanwhile, Alfie, Raven, and the others came to realize that something was amiss. As they witnessed Gresham's furious outburst after the disappearance of the essence, the pair burst into triumphant laughter.
"Bwahaha! Looks like Gresham has lost his shot at celestial ascension!"
As long as the True Immortal's essence remained beyond Gresham's grasp, there was still hope for them to claim it. Alfie could not contain his joy, and even the other prodigies who were recovering from their injuries began to take notice of him.
"What's happening? Did Gresham fail to obtain the True Immortal's essence?"
"Fortune favors us yet. Haha! We still stand a chance!"
"I'll get my hands on it soon!"
More than a dozen individuals felt a renewed vigor and traced the path of the essence. Though it had vanished into the void, its presence lingered and was faintly detectable to those with keen divine senses.
At that moment, Gresham and the others arrived outside the palace. His face turned pale with shock as he witnessed the essence fall into Severin's grasp.
The assimilation of that essence into Severin marked the culmination of the conquest within the Starry Sky Battlespace.
All his painstaking efforts to secure the essence, going so far as to brandish the divine protective weapon, had been for naught. One could even say that he was giving Gresham's fury reached its peak.
"Argh! You will pay for this with your life, Severin!"
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