Chapter 308: Desecrating Loyalty, Bella Unhinged [bonus]
On Bella's side, a churning mass of darkness. On Regulus's, a roaring sphere of flame.
Neither gained ground. Both burned through reserves.
Separated by a dozen meters, they began trading shots.
Black arrows condensed from the fog and streaked toward him. He split head-sized fireballs from his domain and hurled them back.
The fireballs plunged into the mist, and the fog surged up to smother them, wrapping tight, grinding them down. It wasn't effortless. Each fireball's expansion blasted the mist open briefly, but the fog closed fast enough to devour most of them before they reached their target.
He sent two conventional spells through. A Piercing Curse and a Severing Charm lanced through the flames toward Bella.
The mist rose to meet them, swallowing the beams. Wwhite light dimmed inside the fog and guttered out halfway across.
The few that punched through were absorbed cleanly by the black barrier.
Arrows came from the other direction. He let the fire intercept.