The cavern erupted into chaos. Ignis's Solar Wind had turned the upper webs into a crackling inferno, and Alice was a blur of void energy, picking off any spider that tried to form a coordinated counterattack. But the true battle was just beginning.
As Adam closed in, the Arachnowyrm's multiple eyes glowed with a sickly purple light. Then, without warning, thin, precise beams of condensed violet energy—Ocular Lasers—lanced out from several eyes at once, sizzling through the air towards Adam.
Adam twisted mid-air, his Aerial Dominance allowing him to evade the majority, but one beam grazed his flank. It didn't burn; it seared, a cold, numbing pain that ate at his scales.
'What the hell?! Lasers?! Since when could she do that?!' he thought, more shocked by the method than the injury.
