Almost because even though the second layer still used Ragnarök as a base, it also had a slot for the Fury and the ability to reproduce its enchantments on a bigger scale.
We must finish this before someone gets close enough to notice the Prime Engine.'Lith and Solus thought in unison, commanding the Mouth to start weaving their Tower Blade Spell, Extinction.
The eight Golems on the front lines joined their arms and turned them into heavy Yggdrasill shields as they charged forward. The other eight in the back line shapeshifted their hands into spiked mace and advanced behind the cover of the shield bearers.
All of them weaved their part of a Silverwing's Annihilation, ready to unleash the anti-Guardian spells the moment the World Tree was done with their preparations. The Golems marched in perfect synch, the Puppets piloting them were extensions of the Yggdrasill and moved in tune with their will.
On the one hand, the teamwork between the Puppets was clockwork. On the other hand, even though seven of them were required to cast an anti-Guardian spell, the willpower imbued in it would belong solely to the World Tree and if cast alone it would have been easily Dominated again.
It was the reason the Yggdrasill couldn't conjure the Annihilations until they were done preparing adequate cover fire.
Unfortunately for the Tree, the hybrid wasn't willing to wait that long.
The hybrid bolted toward the Golems standing between them and the World Tree, conjuring a copy of Ragnarök in each of their free hands.
The first performed a vertical slash that severed the joints where the shields locked together, creating a path inside the enemy formation. The second and third blades lunged respectively at the left elbow and the right foot of the shield-bearing Golems, where their Puppets were supposed to be safe.
The black crystals on the angry blades' fullers lit up, releasing a pulse of darkness magic that withered the Yggdrasill's sprouts and killed them instantly.
With two members of the eight-man unit dead not only were the Golems now incapable of conjuring anti-Guardian spells but also there was a hole in their previously flawless formation.
The constructs had no defense from attacks coming from the opening, their sides and backs exposed. The hybrid exploited the hole they had just created viciously and moved their arms in a whirlwind.
Lith and Solus were surrounded but none of the enemy weapons were aimed at them, an issue that the World Tree was already in the process of correcting. The hybrid stabbed four more Golems and killed the sprouts piloting them, leaving only two members of the eight-man unit alive.
The survivors were on the opposite side of the formation, too far away to coordinate their efforts and too close to escape. The hybrid threw two copies of Ragnarök that shapeshifted into Furies in mid-air.
The flying hammers powered by the hybrid's strength plus the Prime Engine sent the Golems flying off the ground, their feet away from the power line of the Yggdrasill's roots and, more importantly, disconnecting the sprouts from the Tree's mind.
As long as they were on the ground, the Yggdrasill could move them like their limbs since the roots transmitted the sprouts' perceptions to the Tree and the Tree's will into the sprouts instantly.
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