The roles shifted instantly. Johnn became a golden streak of destruction. He ignored the bodies on the ground and focused entirely on the Elder Ent. He vaulted into the air, spinning his tonfas to create a vacuum that pulled the Ent's attention toward him.
"Hurricane Drive!"
He slammed into the Elder Ent's chest, the shockwave snapping the umbilical vines of another ten Green Men. As they fell like heavy fruit from the branches, Johnn stayed in the air, parrying the Ent's massive obsidian-bark limbs to keep the clearing open for Maddy.
Below the chaos, Maddy moved like a shadow.
She didn't use flashy magic or shouts. She stepped between the fallen Green Men with the silence of a reaper. Her blade moved in precise, clinical strikes—piercing the hearts of the overgrown vines and the centers of the parasitic growths. To any observer, she was simply "finishing off" the fallen, but to the Green Men, she was the first moment of peace they had felt in years.
