Klaus cut down the Eighth-stage Sovereign with barely a pause and turned toward a Ninth-stage Sovereign who was being harassed by two bunnies.
Alice, meanwhile, was caught in a brawl with three Eighth-stage Sovereigns: two Gnomes and a Necromancer. Essence clashed and crackled across the sky around them, but her eyes never left the three in front of her.
Three opponents of her own cultivation stage didn't worry her. Her Seelie drifted to her side, and the cold rolling off it was sharper than it had ever been, frosting the air around them in thin white threads.
The Necromancer was a Dual Elementalist, wind and darkness, and his speed made him the most dangerous of the three. Alice had speed of her own thanks to her lightning element, but with three enemies pressing her at once, he was free to pick his moments. He circled at the edge of her reach, patient, waiting for an opening.
