From a distance, Ben watched everything that happened.
"It seems they will win," he thought. "But I wonder, is that the power armor Elvira mentioned before?
It looks similar to the one she showed me."
He had watched the veteran Nephirid fight against Malvek from the beginning.
At first, his plan was to intervene if he saw they had no hope to win.
He wanted to see how capable they were now.
But when Malvek activated the artifact called the Obsidian Heart, it was already too late.
Unlike the Nephirid, Ben could easily see how mana and energy flowed.
He could tell the artifact had merged with Malvek, making it impossible to separate.
If it was only that, Ben could still try something, like knocking him out.
But the artifact moved with its own will, burning Malvek's life to fight back.
Ben was sure it would self-destruct the moment Malvek fell unconscious.
Back on the battlefield, the beast let out a metallic screech.
