Ordinarily, she wouldn't have had a hard time defending against his attacks. The Divine Mother was, ultimately, still an Administrator. And her body was armed with cutting-edge Arakaian esoteric biotechnology. She could handle attacks from a Martial Transcendent under normal circumstances.
Except these weren't normal circumstances.
Her body was in a critical state. The wound she had endured from the absurdly powerful attack that Rui had ambushed her with held her back. The sheer diameter of the circular hole in her abdomen was so large that it almost separated her upper body from that of her lower body.
It was the kind of wound that meant instant death for even the most resilient and tenacious life forms.
The only reason she and her sister managed to avoid that fate was thanks to their webverses.
