Kiana, in response, met him with a punch to his right shoulder, which sent him flying back. He twisted midair to break the fall and perched on the slanting rocky side of the cavern.
The necrotic numbness from the silver void needle spread through Sagiri's right shoulder again, attempting to freeze the vital channels of the archive.
Droplets of poisoned blood hissed as they dripped onto stone, burning tiny smoking pits into the rocky cavern floor.
The Archive was fighting hard against the poison, but he knew that with the raging fight its priorities had changed.
Sagiri remained calm as the Archive surged through his veins, isolating the alchemical venom before it could reach his heart.
With a fluid wrist motion, he shifted the hilt of Nokai without losing a single beat of his guard. Twenty autonomous black blades detached from the bone-metal spine, fanning out into a double-ringed orbital formation.
