Zagran's mere impact with the ground generated a shockwave that sent the Eldritches flying away with only one exception.
The Shadow Dragon plunged her talons in the ground, draining the world energy and digging meters-deep trenches as she slid back. As for Tezka, between the Blade Spell, Chaos Dimension, and keeping the dimensional links with his allies at the ready, he had reached his limit.
He failed to react in time but managed to recover with a somersault, landing on his feet and with Endless Night ready to block anything.
The Garuda immediately sent bolts of silver lightning to her fallen comrades, making up for the powers they had lost after being hit by Orulm's Break. Then she pulled out her Guardian tier weapon, Rending Talons.
A pair of silvery-black combat gloves covered her hands. Her fingers now ended in long claws and retractile blades rested on the back of Rending Talons, crackling with energy.
"If you want to fight, let's fight." A silvery pillar burst out of her body as a bolt of Life Maelstrom connected her with the rumbling sky. "I won't let you take these idiots, no matter if they deserve it."
"We don't need your permission!" Zoreth charged forward while extending the claws of her new and improved Yggdrasill Sky Piercer.
"Plan E, now!" Vastor yelled as everyone assumed their battle position.
"You stupid brat!" Zagran grunted. "I am-"
Zoreth's claws moved faster than the Garuda expected and her punch hit with more strength than any non-Guardian could produce. It was just a fist, but its destructive power was on par with an Annihilation.
"You are finished!" Zoreth had forcefully merged her troll and black core, forming a perfect mana core.
Decay and Chaos perfectly balanced instead of canceling each other and generated a power that outclassed even Tezka's.
"Not bad." Yet aside from the first strike, Zagran effortlessly blocked everything else. The Shadow Dragon was powerful for a non-Guardian, but the Garuda sparred with Salaark on a regular basis. Zagran studied magic and martial arts every day since she had become a Guardian untold millennia ago.
Zoreth had recently switched from a blade to combat gloves whereas Zagran used them from the day she had gained hands as an Emperor Beast. The gap in power, experience, and technique was too wide to overcome with just the advantage of surprise.
A small, tiny dimensional opening appeared from Zoreth's opposite side and released Orulm's strongest attack, Break Annihilation.
"Only an idiot would fall for this twice and this is the third time already!" Zagran conjured a dimensional opening that swallowed the Annihilation and shot it outside the range Orulm could still control it with willpower.
"If you can't stop an attack, there's no point trying. You move it where it can do no harm." She explained while blocking Zoreth's chain of fists and spells with one hand while the other pummelled the Shadow Dragon into a pulp.
If not for her unique power she would have died after the first strike and to make matters worse, her enhanced state would last for less than one more second. Once it ended, so would her life.
Theseus went to the rescue and was dealt with by a single palm strike that bypassed his defenses and struck his abdomen. He was still wreathed in Origin Flames and infused with Mana Body, but it was useless.
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