The lattice-bodied spiritual creature floated with disturbing stillness. Its arms twitched like puppet strings, disjointed and disconnected, flickering in and out of phase as if it were being rendered by a glitching system. And then, without warning—
It moved.
A flicker of light, and it was in front of Aegis.
Aegis barely brought his arm up in time to block, but the blow sent him skidding backward, with cracks webbing across his forearm. Kain's breath caught in his throat. That hit hadn't even been fast. It had simply... ignored the space in between.
It had even seemingly ignored the passive shield that formed around Aegis
"It has a secondary space attribute," Bea explained, based on the memories she had gathered.
Aegis ground to a halt, flexing his cracked arm. His eyes narrowed, body tensing with alert recognition. It was rare to see him surprised.
Kyria's voice cut across the arena, calm and surgical. "Elk, switch."
