While they fought, magic clashed high above them.
BOOOOOM.
The sky exploded in a rainbow of color.
Fire, frost, lightning, and darkness spread across the heavens like an aurora.
Waves of raw mana rippled outward in violent pulses and lit up the battlefield in flickering hues.
Neither Elvira nor the Alpha looked up.
They stood locked in the center of it all.
The Alpha attacked again.
Its claws gleamed with condensed shadow as it aimed straight for her throat.
Elvira parried with the flat of her dagger.
The force of the blow knocked her back and slammed her into a broken slab of stone.
She coughed blood.
Her ribs ached, but she did not fall.
The Alpha came again, fast and relentless.
A tendril burst from the ground under her.
She flipped to the side.
The tip grazed her boot.
Another inch and it would have gone through her leg.
The Alpha's claw slashed again.
It tore her shoulder barrier clean apart.
She raised her hand. "Hallowed Seal."
