The enormous serpent remained motionless for several seconds after crashing into the darkness. Her scales were scorched across large portions of her body, and deep wounds ran along her side where the fusion of Fire and Wind had torn through her defenses. Yet despite the damage, I could still feel her aura gathering again.
I narrowed my eyes.
She was not finished.
The serpent slowly lifted her enormous head, and a strange crimson light began spreading through her body. At first, I thought she was simply gathering more Force Origin, but then I noticed something different. Her blood was beginning to circulate at an abnormal rate, and the wounds covering her body started bleeding more heavily instead of closing.
She was sacrificing her own blood.
