The nobles' response was to attack in coordinated waves, their tactical training evident as mages provided covering fire while combatants moved to engage. It was a textbook assault designed to overwhelm individual opponents through superior numbers and strategic positioning.
What followed was less a battle than a systematic demonstration of the gulf between academic competence and genuine lethality.
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Yomi moved through their assault like death given form, his techniques characterized not by flashy displays of power but by clinical, terrifying efficiency that reduced combat to its most fundamental elements.
Mephina Voidcaster raised her hands, void magic crackling around her fingers as she began to partially distort reality itself. The air shimmered with dark energy that seemed to eat light, warping the space around her into something that hurt to look at directly.
