Julie was the first to move.
"We need to cut off that blood!" She shouted, already leaping into the air.
Her sword flashed in a blur of silver light as she swung it down with all her strength toward the stream of blood connecting Carmela to the crimson mass still hovering in the sky.
The blade cleaved through the air.
Slice!
But the moment it touched the flowing blood, it was like slicing smoke.
The liquid shimmered, rippling around her blade without resistance, reforming a second later as if nothing had happened.
"What the—?" Julie gasped, already swinging again.
Slice! Slice! Slice!
Again and again, her sword tore through the scarlet stream, but it didn't even flinch. It was as if her attacks were illusions passing through mist.
"Let me try!" Skadi yelled, jumping towards the sky.
Her claws gleamed with mana, slicing across the flow from the opposite side. Sparks of energy crackled where her strikes landed.
