The moment that first scale dimmed, the balance of the battle changed.
Sylas didn't need a second exchange to understand why. The Life and Death Seals were born from the Reaper Sealwright Profession, built around the understanding of Genes belonging to both the living and the long dead, then taking that understanding and turning it into suppression, restriction, extraction, or whatever other use Sylas chose to impose.
That made the feathered Serpentes almost uniquely vulnerable.
The Runes covering his feathers weren't constructs he drew himself, nor were they techniques layered over his body through study. They were direct expressions of his Genes pushed outward into the world, his bloodline writing itself across every emerald-gold feather until his natural Heaven Rune Creation became both his greatest weapon and, against Sylas, the largest opening he could possibly provide.
Sylas watched another feather flare and understood more.
