As if metals were steaming, a pungent rust odor spread and engulfed the entire bank of Magel's Unfrozen River.
On both sides of the river, the standoff between the giant of light and the lifeforce behemoth had entered a stalemate for minutes. Since its full power blow was unexpectedly shaken off by the giant, the behemoth started to behave cautiously.
Since those bodies were intangible and were constructed from pure lifeforce, the behemoth's layers of shells could keep on morphing incessantly. The countless tentacles would become huge appendages one moment, huge pincers the other—it was as if the behemoth was thinking what shape it should take to counter the six-armed giant before it.
In the end, the behemoth stopped entirely. Its tremendous body paused slightly before changing into lifeforce that flowed throughout the air, absorbed once more into the body of a human silhouette that had been at its core all along.
