These so-called "demon generals" I hadexpected to be as powerful as the Queen all turned out to be a complete fluke.
The Children as a whole were way weaker than the Eldest Born; cannon fodder, really.
The real threat had always been the Eldest herself, still watching from afar.
But something occurred next that shifted everything—
As Clay continued her relentless assault on the Second Born, she swept its legs out from under it with a low, spinning kick that sent the towering figure crashing backward onto the torn earth.
In the same fluid motion, she leaped forward, wrapping her powerful thighs around its head like a vice.
With a violent twist of her hips and a surge of raw strength, she cracked its neck in a sickening, audible snap that echoed across the battlefield.
The Second Born's body went rigid for a single, frozen heartbeat—its grey limbs locking up unnaturally—before it slumped lifelessly to the ground.
