For several suffocating seconds after the flesh-cutting impact echoed across the battlefield, Vesperine froze.
Her eyes remained tightly shut, fingers trembling against the shattered stone beneath her boots while the metallic stench of blood spread through the cold air. She had seen it clearly. A streak of bright blue light descended from above like a falling star before crashing directly toward Victor's back.
Everything inside her sank.
Everything was over... until,
CRRNNKKKKK...!!
The violent scream of grinding metal ripped through the battlefield.
Vesperine's eyes shot open.
Her breath caught violently in her throat the moment she saw it.
Victor still stood.
