"Infectious Bite!"
The second bite right on the right side of the chest, over the etched venom pattern. She drove the poison in like an archer forcing the final arrow into a heart. A searing heat rebounded against her lips, like pressing her mouth to a stove's surface.
The Titan thrashed. One massive hand closed on empty air and this time caught something.
Her collar jerked.
CRACK.
The world spun. Sylvia hit the floor, then the wall, then the floor again. The Shield groaned, hairline fractures spidering across the layered chains. She rose to a half-kneel unsteadiness flickering through her posture in a way almost never seen.
[HP: Full → Stable – impact absorbed by Shield]
[MP: 38% → 33%]
[Blood Instinct: +6] – All Stats +90%
The Shadow Veil still smothered sight. But the golden-white glow along the Titan's axe blade speared through the fog like sunlight knifing the morning mist. Deadlock Field creaked louder the field resisting its fate, while fate already hefted the hammer.
