The wings behind Max flared open with a burst of black flame, and in the next instant, he took off like a bullet fired from the heavens. The golden forest warped around him as he moved, the earth scorched in his wake, and then—
Boom!
The first black beam of light tore through the air toward him like a judgment passed by the gods. Max didn't flinch. His mind moved faster than thought, his Three Dimensional Body processing every trajectory, an dsgle, and ripple of the approaching attacks.
His Black Sun Inheritance responded first. With a wave of his hand, a wall of enormous black flaming shields materialized in the sky—twelve in total—forming a spiraling wall in front of him. The first beam hit—
KRAK!
—ripping through five of the shields before finally being diverted upward, screaming into the sky.
The second and third beams came from opposite flanks.
"Crimson Entrapment," Max muttered, eyes sharpening.
