Ethan's breathing sped up instantly.
He could feel it clearly—this wasn't a normal energy attack. It was a higher-order, rule-based strike. If those transparent pillars were allowed to fully come down, the defense network over the main city would get ripped apart in no time.
He adjusted his breathing at once, compressing and slicing the transparent lightning in his hands into dozens—then hundreds—of spinning Energy Discs, and whipped them out hard. The disc-shaped lightning blades dragged nearly invisible trails, spreading toward Kelaric like a massive hunter's net.
But the outcome was nowhere near as optimistic as Ethan had hoped.
Kelaric's power was suppressing him—obviously, brutally.
Countless transparent pillars crisscrossed the sky, dropping, twisting, and reforming. Energy poured out of Kelaric without end, and new fractures kept opening in the air as the entire heavens broke apart piece by piece.
