[Realm: Uhorus]
[Location: Verdantis]
[Outskirts]
Mai moved first, the instant the Abyssal Warden's massive hand tightened into a fist, her instincts screamed. The air seemed to change at that moment, with the pressure thickening unnaturally around the towering creature as violet lines spread brighter across its armor, the snow around its feet beginning to lift and tremble despite the violent storm already raging across the plains.
Then it vanished again, the sheer force of its movement ruptured the frozen ground beneath it.
Mai's eyes sharpened.
("There.")
Her body reacted before thought could fully form. Golden Qi thickened around her limbs in dense streams as she pushed backward with a sharp burst of force, her figure leaping through the storm just as the Abyssal Warden's enormous fist descended where she had stood moments before.
