Five golden eyes pulsed at once.
Ben's senses flared. "Incoming!"
The beams fired. Five streaks of conceptual annihilation carved the sky apart erasing anything they touched.
But the trio had already moved. Ben hurled himself through a collapsing gravity fold, blinking between two beams as they sliced past his afterimage.
Apophis dipped through a spiral of her own water, folding space just enough to slide underneath the barrage.
The knight twisted mid-leap, planting his sword into the ground and using the impact to vault over a beam that tore through where he had just stood.
For a moment… they were alive.Ben slammed into the ground hard, barely cushioning the fall with his appendages.
The dark aether around him flickered. His shoulders heaved. His limbs ached.
