Replicus' keen sockets watched as Nedalia sacrificed Creeds in order to make the Secondary assault function of Cryptic Axiom Chasm charge faster and become ready for use instantly.
Replicus had caught a whiff of the possibility of something like this when he initially declared that he would kill Nedalia before she could use her Secondary assault function.
He hadn't believed that she'd waste Creeds on him, given that the voyage was only just beginning, and there were larger threats than him out there, but the reality was manifesting before him right now.
Nedalia's opinion of him had changed a lot more than he expected during the course of their exchange.
The pseudo redhead managed to break out of the loop of his attacks and darted high into the sky through her mirror shards. Her body, made of battered and torn mirrors forming a shapely figure, didn't repair itself. Nedalia didn't give herself the time.