The knight barreled forward below, striking at the Devourer's coiling body. Each strike burst with elemental force, but it barely wound the beast.
Ben grit his teeth and forced himself to move again. He leapt off a platform of warped gravity, twisting midair as two beams raced past his flanks.
BOOM, CRACK, FLASH!
He dove beside Apophis, hurling another spiral of dark aether straight into the tenth eye, just as the knight launched a blade of pure lightning upward.
The two strikes collided,
CRACK!!!
The tenth eye didn't shatter, but it fractured. A deep, glowing wound split its center. The creature recoiled, the eye spasming in its socket.
Ben landed in a crouch, gasping for breath. Sweat mixed with blood at his brow.
Apophis landed beside him. She didn't yell this time. She looked him dead in the eye. "If you've got something crazy in mind," she said quietly, "either do it, or don't."
