Ren immediately pivoted…
He dropped the heavy, exhausting fusions of the Hydra and Wolverine, instantly switching to a pure wind mana push.
Using the Mantis crystal in his hand, he seamlessly matched its frequency, making the spell incredibly cheap to cast.
It was a masterclass in mana efficiency.
He was maintaining the physical pressure on the artifact without bleeding out the last mana reserves he desperately needed to conserve.
The howling gale lacked even a quarter of the destructive, flesh-tearing damage of the light-dark blast. But raw damage wasn't the objective anymore if the artifacts front couldn't be damaged.
If he could hit the corrupted flesh controlling it from behind… But it was out of reach in the bottle neck of the stairs.
Luckily, to stop it, they didn't need to kill it. They just needed to pushback.
