Chapter 293: Thud!
The Countess’s gaze dropped to the stump where her wrist had been.
For a heartbeat, her monstrous form trembled in disbelief.
Then came the shriek that tore through the chamber. "You... you dare... You dare ruin my beautiful body again and again?! You dare... You dare... You DARE!"
Her voice spiraled into madness, repeating the word like a curse spat at the air itself. Each repetition was sharper, more venom-laced, until the very walls seemed to recoil.
Engulfed in rage, she didn’t see it coming. Bastet, eyes like molten suns, had already pointed her finger. Solar light condensed into a little dot, heat warping the air around it before she sent it out in a blistering explosion.
The solar strike landed square across the Countess’s jaw in a slap that could have caved stone. The impact lit the chamber in fire, and the monster’s head whipped sideways with such force that ichor and blood sprayed.
Her scream choked into a wet cough as her jaw hung slightly askew, and she spat a rope of blood before her web line gave way. She plummeted from the ceiling, slamming into the floor.
But she didn’t die. No. Her howl of rage only deepened, climbing into something outright feral.
However, none of them cared if she was currently having a mental breakdown. Like cold machines, they moved in perfect sync.
Aria’s boots left the ground, Lunar Glide activating in a shimmer of silver light. She hovered barely above the stone, her movements becoming like an ice skater cutting across a frozen lake.
With effortless grace, she slid wide across the battlefield, ensuring Bastet and she attacked from different angles, becoming two hunters who were closing in on a single prey.
Bastet’s Solar Lances cut the air like spears of the sun, streaking toward the Countess in a relentless barrage. From her side, Aria’s Lunar Arcs painted the chamber in pale crescents of death, slicing into the space between the monster’s erratic movements.