The world slowed to a crawl as Adrian desperately tried to twist away from death's approach. His muscles screamed in protest, but he knew it wouldn't be enough—
A blur of white.
One moment he was staring into the Arkot's killing intent, the next his body jerked sideways as if pulled by invisible strings. Pain lanced through his side from the force, but that was nothing compared to what happened next.
White claws erupted from below, a pristine arc of deadly precision.
Azura—Lloyd's tamed beast—moved like living lightning, its strike so fast it left afterimages in the air. The Arkot beast never saw it coming.
Claws met flesh with a thunderous impact, and Abby's lethal lunge transformed into an uncontrolled flight. The dark beast shot backward like a bullet from a gun, its body carving a trench through the domain's floor.
