Taro was beside Zhao with five spinning energy spheres already in motion, targeting the tiger, the yellow-orange accumulation at their peak.
Liu with the most powerful sound strike he could generate aimed directly at Orion.
They gave everything that remained.
The full residue of fusion pushed into one final exchange.
The tiger didn't fall.
Dorian's Undine moved forward on Orion's order, positioning itself as the most effective absorber of Liu's sound attack, the water element receiving the compression and dispersing it rather than taking the structural damage. The impact that arrived was reduced from what it should have been. But Taro's attack took the Undine out, and the bulk of Zhao's reach found all three brothers, the blade feathers and the accumulated energy making contact that drew blood from all of them.
Zhao hit the ground depleted of mana.
Taro followed two seconds later.
Liu held one second more, and then he too went down.
