Adonis fell.
While falling his Primordial Dragon form dissolved as the Ether sustaining it simply gone, and he returned to his human shape somewhere in the descent, small and bloodied.
Marian also transformed back into his embrace.
He adjusted the position to bear the full impact.
"BANGGG!"
He hit the ground hard.
He did not get up.
Above the ruins, in the settling dust and the strange purple-tinged silence that followed the Chaos Ultima, the assembled powerhouses of the Royal Guardians and Gratis Kingdom circled slowly, looking down at the motionless human figure in the crater below.
Then the laughter started.
"HAHAHAHA..."
It began with one of the Gratis Kingdom's powerhouses.
He was a broad man in battle armor who had taken three direct strikes from the Primordial Dragon and was still bleeding freely from all three but was, undeniably, still alive and still hovering.
"That, was almost impressive." he said, wiping blood from his jaw with the back of his gauntlet.
