She moved faster with each step until she reached the edge of the rooftop balcony and launched herself upward with explosive force; before landing directly on Lucien's balcony with such strength that caused crack on the surface beneath her boots.
Her eyes locked onto Lucien's through the glass door separating them. She could see him standing in the center of that glowing magic circle along with everyone else behind him.
Annette swung her blade almost instantly without warning and a crescent-shaped arc of cutting energy erupted from her sword's edge and traveled forward at blinding speed toward the glass barrier separating them.
The force of her attack shattered through it in an explosion of glittering shards that scattered everywhere across both sides of that divide.
But just as those fragments hit the floor, Lucien and every single member of the League disappeared in a brilliant flash of blue light.
