Behind them, eleven others ran wide, aiming for the lion's neck. A second column of ten undead circled around the lion's right shoulder, where Elias' blow struck and pierced it.
Elias gritted his teeth, took one deep breath, and created a lattice of light around himself. Despite the fact that his mana pool had not entirely recovered, he used a second Solar Blade talent to distract.
Silver-gold afterimages licked Solaris Fang's edge while luminous wings sprouted from his back of pure illusion, drawing the Fire Lion's gaze his way for an instant.
That instant was enough.
Kai blurred ahead, running in the slipstream of the eleven undead attackers. Two lynx exploded first as flash-fried by close-range hellfire, but their smoldering bodies blocked the monster's vision of the real threat.
Kai jumped and used the falling Shadow Panther to be his stepstone as he kicked it, shooting toward the eye.
