Sssss.
Something weird was trying to slip through his defenses like it had a mind of its own. If left unchecked, it might rot his mind from the inside out.
'Grayson', snarled a low, guttural sound, as a fragmented memory flashed behind his eyes.
A lifetime of agony, of manipulation, of nearly losing everything to this kind of filth. The realization flooded him with pure, unadulterated fury.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
His spiritual power surged outward in a concussive shockwave. A violent tidal wave of dense, pressurized energy circulated across every inch of his skin. It aggressively stripped away the insidious mist.
He refused to let a single bit of it take root in his bloodstream.
Fwoom.
The green-violet cloud sheared away from his body as though it had struck an invisible skin. It curled back on itself before dispersing harmlessly into nothingness against the dark night.
It was a devastating waste of momentum for 'Grayson'.
But it was all Ethan needed to widen the gap.
