Deadly struggle

In that split second between life and death, Claire appeared in her innerworld, with her own appearance. 

There is a gigantic nebula on the right, eyeing her mana hungrily. A myriad of voices shouted from the nebula, screaming in hunger and despair. In front of these desperate voices was a throne. It's made entirely of mana, and pure mana at that. It is not the hungry nebula that came for her spirit energy, but the pure spirit throne. 

It sucked out all her mana out of her mana core, like sucking juice out of the bottle with a straw. The power of suction was so strong, before she could even get her bearings back, three quarters of her mana vanished. She pulled mana from the enchanted awakening stone desperately, at the same time, commanded all the chains in her innerword to latch on to the flow to the throne and pull back. 

It was similar to surfing on a wave while playing tag with a shark. 

CaoPei was still present within her innerworld.