Raven surged forward first, bare hands glowing with crimson illusions as she targeted a cluster of glowing Eternal Starlight Lotuses guarded by a Third Calamity Solar Fox and two Second Calamity escorts.
The Solar Fox, a hulking male with golden fur blazing under the blue sky, spotted her instantly and snarled, "A Second Calamity mosquito dares approach? Burn."
He hurled a spear of solar flame infused with his Law of Light at 60 %, the attack scorching the air as it roared toward her.
Raven twisted mid-air, her Law of Silence at 65 % muffling the roar to nothing, but the heat still singed her skin.
She countered with her talent.
|Phantom Echo Fists (Ultimate)|
Her punch connected with his chest—BOOM!—the impact replaying instantly, bones cracking under invisible assaults. The fox roared back, claws raking the air with light-infused slashes that forced Raven to dodge, one grazing her arm and drawing blood.
Without wasting time and giving the other two foxes a chance to react, Raven activated her first Calamity Law.
|Edict of Silent Sanguine|
The air went dead quiet.
The Third Calamity Solar Fox's spilled blood rose like crimson mist, coalescing into perfect illusions of himself—three mirage foxes that lunged with real fangs, silent and vicious, draining his life force with every phantom bite.
The real fox's eyes widened in fury. "You dare—!"
He roared, golden fur blazing brighter as he unleashed his first Calamity Law in turn.
|Radiant Solar Dominion|
A miniature sun formed above him, bathing the area in searing light that burned away shadows and illusions. The mirages flickered but held, Raven's blood-illusions adapting silently, feeding on the light to grow stronger.
The two Second Calamity escorts reacted a heartbeat later.
The first fox activated his Calamity Law: Blazing Tail Cascade, nine tails whipping out waves of solar fire that scorched the ground and forced Raven to weave through silent dodges.
The second fox invoked Solar Flare Barrage, hurling compressed orbs of Sunfire that exploded in blinding bursts, trying to overwhelm her with raw heat.
Raven's lips curved in a cold smile.
She poured more blood-essence into the Edict, creating perfect mirages of all three foxes—now nine illusions total, indistinguishable from the originals.
The battlefield descended into silent chaos.
Mirage foxes clashed with real ones, fangs meeting in sprays of blood and fire. The Third Calamity fox shattered one illusion with a claw strike—SHK!—only for two more to leap from the mist, biting into his flanks and draining essence.
The Second Calamity escorts panicked, slashing at phantoms that bled real blood and fought with perfect precision.
Raven moved like a ghost among them.
She closed on the first Second Calamity escort, bare hand striking his throat in perfect silence. Her talent Phantom Echo Fists activated: the last five strikes replayed ten times inside his body—bones snapping, organs rupturing.
He collapsed wordlessly, eyes wide in shock.
The second escort turned, tails whipping solar fire, but Raven's mirage-self took the hit, exploding into blood-mist that reformed behind him. Her real fist drove into his spine—CRACK!—echo fists replaying until his body folded like paper.
Two down.
The Third Calamity fox roared, sun above him flaring brighter as he activated his second Calamity Law.
|Edict of Solar Judgment|
A beam of pure solar essence lanced down, vaporizing three mirages and forcing Raven to twist away, skin blistering from proximity heat.
She countered with her own second Calamity Law.
|Sanctuary of Eternal Silence|
An indestructible veil of absolute silence and blood-mirage snapped into place around her.
The solar ray struck the sanctuary and reflected perfectly—back at the fox in a silent, crimson-tinted beam that burned his own golden fur black.
He howled but no sound escaped the sanctuary, as he was staggering.
Raven charged through the veil.
Bare-handed and with relentless precision.
Fist to chest—with echo fists replaying. Knee to jaw—made silent cracks. Elbow to temple—had blood spraying without a drop of noise.
The fox fought back ferociously, claws raking her side, solar fire scorching her arms, tails whipping blasts that cracked ribs.
But the sanctuary reflected every strike, illusions multiplying the damage.
He then activated a talent.
|Solar Regeneration Burst (Calamity)| As golden light began knitting his wounds.
Raven answered with a blood-illusion clone that tackled him from behind, fangs sinking into his neck while she struck from the front.
The fight dragged on in brutal but silent manner.
Finally, the fox faltered with his essence drained, body burned by his own reflected Laws.
Raven's palm struck his heart.
Phantom Echo Fists replayed tenfold.
He dropped, golden fur dimming to ash-grey.
Raven stood over him, breathing hard, blood dripping silently from her wounds.
She reached down and claimed the three Mythic lotuses, fingers closing around their glowing petals.