Lin Ye and the priest locked eyes, neither showing any emotion, as both firmly believed they were in the right and confident of their ultimate victory.

"Are you ready?" Lin Ye asked the priest.

"Bring it on!" the priest shouted back.

Two aberrant creatures exploded with their final burst of power behind Lin Ye. Lin Ye intended to withstand it with his Psionic Shield, but at the moment of contact, a memory of the dark sphere he saw in the cruise ship's black corridor flashed in his mind.