He hadn't even had time to relish his smugness when a streaking purple light flashed through the distance like a beam from a plasma cannon.
The attack hit the necrotic dragon squarely, rattling its massive head with a concussive force that broke its concentration and forced it to release its siphon on Ryuga's soul energy in the process.
Without the slightest hesitation, Ryuga slithered out of reach. The black serpentine dragon wound away from the abomination's loosened grip, shuttling up into the upper skies like a swimming eel escaping a net.
The Transcendents who had been battling Ryuga immediately moved into action. The entire time the necrotic dragon had held Ryuga down, they had cleared away entirely. The sheer density of the essence and soul energy that the abomination had been siphoning from the Errant's dragon was frightening enough that none of them wanted to remain close to the vortex.
