Every Aspect and Dictum Ronric possessed was activated, their energies poured into the shield to strengthen it enough to hold back Miranda's attack, yet cracks still spiderwebbed across the layers.
Her flames burned through the interwoven cosmic energy that formed the shield, and the backlash slammed into Ronric, pushing his hands back and destabilising his Third Concretization as even the armour covering his body began flickering dangerously.
Miranda widened the entrance to her Cosmic Hearth, pouring more cosmic energy into her blade in a final burst that shattered Ronric's shield.
The torrent of flames crashed directly into him, forcing him to spread his wings into a desperate dome to cover both himself and Salenor as the flames washed over them, burning his feathers, cracking the bones they were attached to, and charring the flesh beneath.
