Elvira's mind struggled to process what she was seeing.
In all her lives, two before this and this one as the third, she had seen many things.
She had seen artifacts that cut through spells like paper.
She had seen relics that absorbed magic entirely and left their casters helpless.
But this was different.
A creature was consuming magic like it was a favorite food, devouring it and then using it as its own power.
She had never seen anything like that before.
Elvira's hands tightened into fists.
Mana surged through her veins as magic circles flared into existence around her, one after another.
They expanded, shifted, and interlocked into a complex matrix of spells.
"Let's see how much you can chew before you choke."
BOOM.
A storm of destruction flew through the air.
Aetheric Lance, Frost Nova, Arcane Implosion, each spell crackled with raw power and streaked toward the Alpha in a relentless barrage.
This time, the Alpha did not eat them.
It moved.
