The barrier collapsed.
Instantly after, Asmodeus fell against the wall, panting and weak.
This isn't the time to worry about him...
Velvet's breath burned in her throat as she ascended higher, wind screaming past her ears.
The war barge below her loomed like a fortress on water, its deck bristling with gunners and heavy artillery. Crossbow bolts cut the air around her, and one grazed her thigh, hot blood spilling into the wind.
"Squad One, keep your heds down!" She shouted, her voice sharp and hoarse from the thinner oxygen this high up.
Her knights acted like birds of prey.
They dove as one, black wings slicing through the eye-watering smoke. They raked the deck with steel and claws, ripping gunners apart before they could reload. One knight tackled a mage mid-incantation, dragging him screaming over the rail into the churning sea.
