Cain and Cipher were being forced back—inch by inch, breath by breath—by the overwhelming might of the High Lord of the Root.
The duo fought with everything they possessed. Cain unleashed sundering force with every punch, collapsing space-time with his strikes while weaving the power of the Flow, Entropy, and Nihility into each motion. Cipher, in contrast, carved through the void with blows as heavy as words and as dense as black holes, each attack carrying so much power that they distorted the fabric of space-time around him.
Yet none of it was enough.
No matter how many times their attacks landed, no matter how much damage they inflicted, the High Lord's advance simply refused to stop. Every wound they opened only made him stronger. Every tear in his flesh swelled his muscles.
The cosmic powers that Godfrey commanded made it so that every second the battle pushed forward, the duo was in more and more danger.
