Ben fired a compressed vortex of crushing force.
Black energy collapsed into itself like a tiny black hole.
It struck the Devourer's core with a shockwave that twisted the space around it into spirals and flattened the land below.
The impact pushed the beast backward, but not far.
Its body shuddered, then stabilized again.
The glyphs on its body blazed brighter.
The chest-ring spun faster.
The charge was almost complete.
Above them, six golden eyes snapped open at once.
"Get ready!" Ben shouted.
Six beams shot downward together, one from each eye.
The knight flash-stepped to the left, barely dodging a beam that vaporized the ridge behind him.
Ben folded gravity under his feet and dove through a spiral of collapsing space.
A beam passed just behind him and carved a jagged wound across the sky itself.
Each beam was faster than before.
Sharper.
The Devourer was not just firing at random.
It was targeting them.
It was learning and adapting with every shot.
