The canyon floor cracked beneath Almond's feet as Dominion Feedback quietly began stacking from the construct kills. The air bent inward around the Exalted blade, swallowing drifting ash before it could touch the edge.
The archer moved first.
Five arrows manifested at once, each one darker than the last, tips humming with compressed spatial implosion. He released them in a fan formation, sealing every obvious dodge vector.
Almond did not dodge.
Voidtrace Element activated.
The world simplified.
Lines appeared.
Weaknesses glowed faintly across the archer's stance, his bow grip, the muscle tension in his fingers.
Almond stepped forward.
One slash.
Voidfracture Bloom unfolded.
The single arc fractured into recursive lines that multiplied mid-air, ten overlapping crescent distortions slicing outward like splitting mirrors.
All five arrows disintegrated mid-flight.
Two fracture lines continued forward.
The archer's shoulder split open before he could teleport.
