From that moment on, the sky was the limit for birds, the sea wide open for fish, and no one would ever control him again.
Thus, faced with Five-Willow Overstate Full Form's swinging Fine Gold Hammer, Gaven neither dodged nor avoided, and was hammered solidly.
Upon the Spirit Soul Naga, Gaven regained his faith in the Fine Gold Hammer. It wasn't that the lethality of this thing had diminished, but the Lizard Queen's abilities were too freakish, too restraining.
As for the current state of the Spirit Soul Naga, imagine what would happen if you took an eight-pound hammer to a coiled-up common snake and smashed it: that was pretty much the state of the Spirit Soul Naga, only dozens of times larger.
Blood splattered everywhere, and the long snake body was broken into several pieces on the spot, sticking to the ground, dead as could be, with no second possibility.
