Everything was frozen, eerily still.
Thrain's dark figure hovered in the middle of the street, frozen in the process of projecting a tide of pure darkness at the fleeting figure of the masked assassin.
Liu Zhen was frozen mid-leap in the motion of lunging towards Annonymous.
Norvax and Alissa, too, were frozen still, resembling life-like mannequins next to Darius's still figure.
"Now for the next part," Darius murmured.
Darius stretched out his hand, manipulating the flow of time around Thrain and Liu Zhen.
In the calm that followed, Liu Zhen and Thrain were the first to move.
" Finally, about time."
Thrain materialized next to the frozen figure of the masked man, then, with some effort, hurled several spikes of pure darkness at the figure.
The spikes froze in space the moment they left his hands.
Liu Zhen made several cuts around the figure before jumping back.
