"Aegis!" the woman exclaimed, and waved her sleeve. A gleaming green sphere surrounded her that instant, and my wind blades shattered on its transparent surface.
The woman met my eyes and smiled with cold arrogance. "Celestial Might," she said, this time slowly and deliberately. The next moment, I was thrown back into the barrier that surrounded this place by a blast of force that came from her.
Her appearance changed in an instant. Her entire figure was radiating green light, so bright that it made me squint. That light was blazing-bright in her eyes, completely hiding her iris and pupils, leaving only the green. The tight updo she wore broke and her hair floated in the air on the waves of that power. Behind her back, the green light became a solid thing, forming three pairs of feathered wings that lifted her a meter off the ground.
