Amidst the devastated battlefield, Seraphina, utterly spent, reclined indolently upon Ansel's lap, seeking repose.
The prodigious feat of rending a dragon asunder while freshly ascended to the fourth stage would undoubtedly soon resound throughout the empire. However, by Seraphina's own admission, cleaving the great lizard's skull in twain was no trifling matter.
The culmination of Hydral's supreme dominion over abyssal beasts, coupled with a state attained by exhausting every droplet of aether within her, enabled Seraphina to violently tear asunder the dragon's cranium. While the former's potency against bestial entities needs no elaboration, the latter… as Seraphina intimated, was a perilous and unwieldy state for her, fraught with the risk of being overwhelmed by tumultuous power if not handled with utmost care.
