Three serpents launched forward simultaneously. Their bodies shimmering and their forms dissolved into pure radiance.
Shot forward at the speed of light itself.
In one microsecond, they were wound around that impossible tree.
They had become blurring afterimages, instantly existing inside Marie and Roana's guard.
It is too fast for the eyes to track, existing in one location then instantly in another.
But Marie's Light Sense had already detected their trajectories. "They move to the left, then the center, and now right!" She called out.
Glacial Gaze.
Roana traced the causality chain, which displayed eight branches, then sixteen, with each possible action curling around another like a double helix. "I see their intent." She said, voice cold with certainty. "The one on the right is the one that will hit you."
