Maxim didn't spend a micro-moment staring at the emerged enemy. She bolted right along the corridor to deal with the foe before they attacked.
Skullius felt her presence fade, as it had when she and him had fought Baddan; an Auxiliary Technique.
He heard a teeth-rattling boom an instant later, and Maxim's figure flashed towards him, spinning viciously, bouncing on the wall as it came!
Skullius leaned to the side to dodge it, and as soon as it passed him, he heard it pound in the ground tens of meters away.
A trail of blood followed the path Maxim had taken from the obscure figure of the woman ahead, who finally stepped into the corridor, her presence filling it up with suffocating, unreasonable bloodlust.
Skullius could trace her shape and form with his abundant senses alone.
