Helen... no, rather, Ravenna Ziegler within the Tower of Babel, before Hendrik's very eyes, narrowly escaped a deadly assassination attempt.
A beam pierced through her spine, shattering a segment of her vertebrae and tearing open her chest, coming less than two millimeters from utterly destroying her heart.
These two millimeters were the result of Helen's self-preservation mechanism, a cautious layer of protection she donned following an assassination that remained unknown to all.
By employing etheric flow disruption, she deflected the lethal strike, the last line of defense after preparing six layers of various spells and alchemical devices, all of which were penetrated almost instantaneously.
It was an assassination so cunning that not even a fifth-stage extraordinary being could detect it, nor could they discern the method of attack.
"Is this true?"
