Ethan had already taken a step.
He knew he had to move.
But just as he was about to charge out, two figures left the fleet formation a beat ahead of him.
Desert Queen Kaelira.
Queen Seraphine.
The two of them appeared at the front of the fleet at the same time.
Light spread from their bodies—not mere brightness, but a layered expansion of energy with clear depth to it.
The air thickened. The originally chaotic spatial fluctuations were forcibly suppressed, and even the fissures that kept tearing open stalled for a brief moment.
The light around Seraphine was even purer.
It wasn't "bright" in any normal sense, but a stabilizing force that could directly fill the seams of space.
Her radiance rolled outward, pinning down a small region ahead. Under her influence, the violently shaking space smoothed out.
The enemy's motions paused for an instant.
The turbulence in their palms stopped expanding.
The energy fluctuations dropped noticeably.
Seraphine didn't wait.
