Ben fired a compressed vortex of crushing force, black energy collapsing into itself like a miniature black hole. It struck the Devourer's core with a shockwave that bent the space into spirals and flattened the land below.
The impact pushed the beast backward, but not far. Its body shuddered… then corrected. The glyphs blazed brighter. The chest-ring spun faster. The charge was nearly complete.
From above, six golden eyes snapped open in unison.
"Get ready, !" Ben shouted.
SIX beams lanced downward at once, one for each direction. The knight flash-stepped to the left, barely avoiding a beam that vaporized the ridge behind him.
Ben folded gravity under his feet, diving through a spiral of collapsing space, dodging a beam that carved a gash in the sky itself.
Each beam was faster than before. Sharper. It wasn't just firing, it was targeting, learning, adapting again.
