Parasitic Regrowth could have handled the damage. The thought arrived with the defensive instinct of someone looking for reassurance. He let it arrive and then set it aside honestly. There was a category of injury that existed above what regeneration could address in any practical combat timeframe, and a foot-long bone fragment moving at projectile velocity through the skull was likely in that category. Letting it land to find out was not a research methodology he wanted to adopt.
Defense talent. The note placed itself in the back of his mind with the quiet, firm quality of a decision being made for later — not an abstract preference but a concrete priority, elevated by the specific, visceral education of the last three seconds into something he intended to address at the earliest available opportunity.
He pushed Meteor Momentum further.
