They had questions, many of them, but there was no time for answers now. What mattered was putting an end to the Chrysalis Empress once and for all.
Everyone surged forward together. Irina loosed arrow after arrow into the Empress's cracked carapace. Venus's crystalline fists hammered down like meteors, each punch stronger than the last. Felix's blood tendrils lashed, tearing open wounds that refused to close. Rudos struck with his staff, chanting a battle hymn that boosted their strikes.
Ryuzen remained silent as his fist struck last, wrapped in lingering frost and lightning.
The Empress screamed, her massive frame shattering into shards of violet light. With one last screech, her body dissolved into motes that drifted upward, fading into the canopy.
The battlefield fell quiet. Then came the familiar chime.
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