The beam of plasma reached Aloe in the blink of an eye and clashed with her hands, no, with the thin and highly compressed barrier of air she formed in front of herself. She clearly couldn't withstand the hit head-on, but deflecting it should be possible.
Seeing the flash, Arad had already deployed several barriers to protect the maids in the bath and to make sure the others weren't caught in the chaos. He didn't mind them fighting, but not here, and not with the fragile maids around.
Putting all of her back and power into it, Aloe screamed and angled her palms upward, causing the barrier she formed to tilt and the beam of plasma to splash upward in a blinding flash. She could feel her muscles tearing, her demonic magic draining, and all of her energy being poured into simply deflecting this attack. If this were her old self from when she challenged Zephyr to a fight, she would've been evaporated on the spot.
