Chapter 1571

Something felt wrong about the black smoke. And in the next instant, Shannon knew she was right. The barrier she'd just set up did nothing to the black smoke, which effortlessly slipped through and completely ignored the barrier. Shannon's pupils constricted. She hadn't felt her barrier being broken, and that meant the black smoke could pass through it freely as if it never existed at all. The black smoke was different. Just as Shannon thought so, Benjamin grasped her left hand. Golden light surged from his body and repelled the black smoke. He pulled her closer, and she found herself within the safety of his golden light. But Skylar wasn't as lucky. In the blink of an eye, he was swallowed by the black smoke and vanished. "Skylar!" Shannon's heart clenched when she couldn't hear his response. Could the black smoke devour people? Just as the thought flashed through her mind, the black smoke slipped through the barrier she'd just set around Sylvia and reached the latter. As t