The monster was blinded. Pinned. Kneeling.
Now.
"Isabelle!" I raised my voice above the chaos. "Bring the rain! Everyone else, maximal output! NOW!"
Isabelle launched herself into the air. Her wine-red hair streamed behind her like a battle flag, and her spear blazed with green wind energy so intense it created a miniature hurricane around her body. She began to spin.
Faster.
Faster.
She became a drill. A living weapon aimed directly at the Angler's skull.
"Zephyrfall!"
Raphael and Hikari hit the chest simultaneously. Kinetic force and virtual mass combined in an explosion of pure violence that caved in the creature's ribcage. I raised my hand and let the heat build until the air itself distorted.
[Thermal Incision] lanced toward the monster's neck. A beam of concentrated heat that burned through shadow and bone and whatever else made up this nightmare's anatomy. The smell was indescribable. Rotting meat and burning hair and something else, something wrong.
