It killed two of the Suryax generals who pushed in too close, its blade taking them before anyone could react. It killed a Spirit Lord, cutting clean through the domain to do it. It killed three of the 100,000 troops in a single sweep.
And Almond brought every one of them back.
Golden threads spread from him even as he fought, finding the fallen, reassembling them. The generals gasped back into existence. The Spirit Lord reformed and rejoined its domain. The soldiers stood back up. The Executioner killed, and the killing did not stick, and slowly the math of the fight turned against it.
Lily stacked her debuffs across its slowed frame. Maya widened the wounds. Silvester and Hiroshi held its guard open. And Almond's convergence came down through the gap they made and split the first Executioner from crown to core.
It did not reassemble. Almond made sure of that. Grim Severam denied it everything, and the first Executioner came apart and did not come back.
One.
