The Titan Ape, with its 4 arms, ran forward, each step trembling the ground.
Meanwhile, the dragon kept making small movements. It neither charged nor stayed still, as if weighing its options, right until the moment the small mountain-sized stone staff crashed down on its head.
BOOM!
The impact cracked the ground again, splitting hard rock and opening a deep fissure as shockwaves rippled outward.
It was not only the sheer weight of the Tower of Worth. Liora had also driven Seismic Pulse through it, giving the strike the properties of an earthquake.
Under the blow, the Blood Dragon's 4 legs buckled. Its claws bit into the ground to hold balance, and it struggled not to topple into the newly opened rift.
Even so, its blood-red scales looked almost untouched. Only on its head, where the strike had landed, were the plates slightly warped and hairline-cracked, pressed inward. Nothing else showed, unless there was internal damage like a brain bleed.
