The Light Dragon possessed zero extra defensive countermeasures against the onslaught.
And against every historical precedent, the exact outcome Ren had engineered came to pass better than expected.
The Light Guardian, the ancient healer universally feared as the most resilient creature on the continent, the beast whose prodigious regeneration was supposed to drag any battle out into a grueling marathon, finally exposed its heart.
And it took exactly five minutes.
Through the torn flesh of its underbelly, framed by the powerful darkness of his own negative beam, Ren saw it. The transcendent, pulsing core of the guardian shone through the layers of radiant muscle that were currently dissolving faster than they could knit back together.
Five minutes... To break the dragon that was supposed to outlast them all by pure regeneration.
