The western colosseum shook beneath the shifting bedrock. Ashley stood in the center of the sandstone arena, rings of blue lightning crackling around her wrists. Gulag emerged from the tunnel with her fifty Vanguard elites, fanning out to surround the perimeter.
Before the troops could establish a formation, Ashley vanished. She transmuted her physical body into pure kinetic electricity.
A blinding streak of blue light ricocheted off the surrounding pillars. She tore through the Vanguard ranks, electrocuting a dozen mystics in a fraction of a second.
Gulag could not track the movement with her eyes. She slammed both hands onto the ground and channeled the violet Ley-Crystal embedded in her core.
While Ashley bounced off the far wall to initiate another strike, Gulag pulled millions of tons of material straight from the deep crust. Veins of pure conductive copper twisted together with black obsidian.
The ground erupted around the arena in a chaotic spray of dirt and stone.
