Inari remained collapsed on the ground until she felt the ground trembling under her. At first it was distant, like a low vibration traveling through the floating island beneath her. Then the tremors grew stronger; each tremble came heavier than the last.
The huge impacts of the colossal knight's stomps woke her up. Her eyelids slowly opened, heavily and sluggishly. The world swam into focus through a haze of pain and exhaustion; she felt something digging into her head, something alive like a parasite.
As a few waves of golden shockwaves passed, the parasitic creature came off her head and crawled away before it could be hit even more.
Relief washed her up as she felt the pain leaving her body. Now her eyes opened up; she saw the sky was dim while a cascade of golden energy swirled in the air. The entire battlefield was drenched in radiant light mana. Golden light energy particles fell like snowflakes from the sky.
