The battle continued to intensify as Cain and the Overseer pushed their mastery of the Flow to increasingly astonishing heights.
Synchronization, Divergence, and Redirection no longer appeared as separate techniques. Instead, they began to merge into a single combat rhythm, one where perception, movement, evasion, impact, and counterattack became different expressions of the same principle.
Cain's eyes burned with golden radiance as he predicted the Overseer's attacks before they manifested, diverted the ones he could not avoid, and absorbed the force of those he chose to endure before sending that power back through his blade.
The Overseer did not fall behind. The pressure of the Scarlet King seemed to allow the entity to push its power to an even higher level.
