Chapter 96: End of The Line (Rewritten)
While Seele was exchanging long-distance blows with the currently-transforming Cocolia, Sunny had taken on the intangible form of a shadow, coiling up the Engine of Creation as he approached the top.
Due to the fact that he needed actual shadows in order to instantaneously teleport, he could only use Shadow Step to move normally. Of course, the speed in which he traversed up the Engine of Creation was by no means slow.
Additionally, the Engine of Creation was obviously not a living creature. Otherwise, Sunny wouldn’t have been able to use Shadow Step on it’s steel chassis.
At the same time, he had been observing clash between Seele and Cocolia — the latter had been encased in a cocoon. He was able to gleam a few things.
First of all, Cocolia’s strength seemed to exceed that of the average Master. Although Sunny suspected that her skill and experience put her on a higher level than the rest, he wouldn’t have thought that she could casually make ice constructs that could break the sound barrier — at a massive scale too!
Being able to do one or the other was fine, and wouldn’t be something that would catch anyone’s eye. However, the amount of versatility she displayed was abnormal; especially for an Aspect that was focused on dealing minor amounts of damage to slowly freeze her opponent’s mind and soul.
To Sunny, this naturally meant that there were other forces at play.
Such as the Stellaron that was visibly glowing inside the cocoon.
He made the highly educated guess that the Stellaron was empowering her with the Path of Destruction. This must have caused her Aspect to mutate in a way, becoming something that can cause large amounts of devastation; which was ridiculously powerful, as her Aspect was already very suitable for close-combat encounters.
...Which meant that removing the Stellaron from the equation would be equivalent to bringing Cocolia back to her base state.
However, she must have been somewhat restricted due to her cocoon. As such, it would be better to end the battle as soon as possible rather than wait for an opportunity to remove the Stellaron.