Ren had damaged it again…
But the crystal adapted instantly. As Ren charged his second volley, the artifact's massive, bladed tail, which was actually constructed from the two remaining ancient artifact legs, bound together by hyper-dense mutant muscle, whipped backward like a massive flail, seamlessly parrying Ren's next strike.
The artifact was a flawless defensive juggernaut. With its sprawling array of indestructible appendages, it possessed a counter for absolutely everything he could try.
Except Ren had not come down here alone…
Another blinding beam of energy slammed into the artifact's left flank.
It was a perfectly synchronized helix of Light and Darkness. Larissa and Luna had utilized the chaos of Ren's teleportation hit to aggressively flank the beast. Selthia screamed again, ripping her fifth ancient arm away from her core to block the blind-side assault, barely managing to block the girls' contradictory fusion.
