The Shadow Blade assassin gasped, a flicker of pain and surprise breaking through his icy composure as the [Minor Blood Burst] disrupted his wrist from the inside. His grip on Void Whisper faltered for that critical, infinitesimal moment.
Lucian didn't waste it. He was already in motion, ignoring the searing pain where his own arm had been severed moments before – it was already knitting back together, tendrils of flesh reaching across the gap with unnatural speed beneath his tunic.
"[Mountain-Cleaving Slash]!"
He didn't need the full wind-up, the grand arc. He channeled the devastating energy of the second Sovereign movement directly through the spear shaft, already pressed against the assassin's defenses from the pinning maneuver. The golden-red crescent of energy didn't fly outwards; it erupted point-blank, focused and intense.
SHIIIING-CRACK-BOOM!
