Lucien stopped treating the battle as something that needed to be won normally.
Hunger's advantage came from creating need.
The village needed food, so Hunger widened that need until food could no longer satisfy it. The fields needed water and nutrients, so he made those requirements impossible to meet. Even Lucien's spells had been forced to consume more energy simply to continue existing.
Fighting him here only gave his Law more things to exploit.
So Lucien changed the battlefield.
Divine Energy erupted from him.
The sudden release illuminated the sky above the village and spread outward in a vast golden-white tide.
Hunger's expression changed for the first time.
The Vulturekin immediately retreated several hundred meters.
"What are you doing?"
Lucien ignored him.
More Divine Energy poured from his inner universe.
