"ENOUGH!" he roared while unleashing a combined explosion of wind and fire.
The soldiers were sent flying by the impact.
The path to Diana was clear.
Revenge, at last, would be...
An iron grip on his leg interrupted his advance.
Selene, her face covered in blood from the explosion but her eyes burning with fierce determination, had managed to reach him.
With a movement that mixed perfect technique and brute force, she used the monster's own momentum against it.
The transformed artromus was sent flying, its monstrous body impacting the ground with devastating force.
When it raised its gaze, it saw Selene between it and Diana, her protective stance charged with a fury that rivaled its own.
"If you want to touch my niece again," Selene's voice cut through the air like a blade, "it will have to be over my dead body."