The humanoid's raised hand came down, and Sylas' world contracted around the impact. His Grim Blade caught the center of its palm, but there was no longer enough strength behind the scythe to properly turn the strike aside.
Lightning spilled around the blade and wrapped his black skeleton in white-gold currents while Judgment Will passed through the emerald scales covering his bones, scraping at something deeper than his body until Sylas felt the outermost layers of his Will shear away with it.
He fell only a few meters before his crystalline Phoenix wings caught him, but the humanoid was already there, a fist crossing his ribs before another drove into the side of his skull. Sylas brought the Grim Blade around to answer, only for its haft to be knocked aside, and the knee that followed sent him skidding across the invisible dome sealing the heavens above Earth.
