"Caius!" Athenodora yelled almost reflexively as her spawn bowed over, his arms limp at his sides.
Philip's clawed hand not only went right through Caius with ease, but the shockwave of the attack wrecked Caius's upper body, rupturing his organs and shattering his entire upper-body skeletal frame. But really, all that was basically pointless as without a heart in his body, he was effectively dead even before the fracturing and organ ruptures.
As Caius's blood splattered all over his face, Philip grinned with a mad satisfaction. Considering how much weaker than him Caius was, it had taken far too long to get to this point.
Philip pulled back his hand, holding Caius's heart in his tight grip and he smiled like he truly believed he could retrieve the Blood Matrix from it. And then a hand grabbed his wrist before he could pull away too far.
The hand belonged to Caius.
