Cages of what looked like white roots enveloped the black aliens, occasionally piercing their flesh again to co out on the other side. Liiza’s ice felt alive as it immobilized and froze the two enemies, trapping them in a prison that had far more than cold bars to it.
The evolved warriors’ black blood from the injuries on their backs and whatever other hole the white roots had opened stopped flowing, freezing while the process extended to other, deeper functions.
The shorter alien tried to oppose the process, only for his survival instincts to scream in danger. He managed to tilt his head to his right, but an attack hit him anyway. Except, no impact unfolded.
Everything on the left side of the shorter alien’s head had vanished. Part of Liiza’s ice, a chunk of his black hair, and his pointy ear had simply disappeared out of existence.
Khan lowered his leg, his senses confirming how his attack had created enough delay to render the process irreversible. The warning from the aliens’ survival instincts had distracted them from the expanding ice, making the warriors too late to attempt to escape that freezing prison.
The gap where the shorter alien’s left ear used to be tried to release blood, but nothing ca out. Any liquid inside the two warriors had frozen, and that process gained more ethereal properties when it affected their brains, energy, and existence as a whole.
Evolved warriors existed past their physical limitations, but Liiza’s ice could deal with those aspects, too. The two aliens could still move slightly due to the insane anatomical resilience provided by their status, but Liiza had rendered them virtually powerless.
That conclusion didn’t escape the two aliens. The shorter warrior’s grin finally closed, hiding the teeth Khan’s attack had broken. anwhile, his taller companion’s lips parted in surprise, releasing frozen, black shards of blood that the previous kick had sent through his throat.
It had only taken a few exchanges after Khan and Liiza had gotten serious, but the two black aliens were virtually defeated. Their lives were in the married couple’s grasp.
The swift resolution would shock ordinary evolved warriors. They knew exactly how strong and resilient entities at their level were, so witnessing such a one-sided battle would force them to reconsider their understanding of that realm.
The details about that battle would even deepen the shock. After all, the two black aliens theoretically wielded a stark advantage due to their ability to counter the mana.
Moreover, Liiza and Khan weren’t properly evolved warriors yet. They had uncommon abilities, but their actual level was below that realm, making their swift victory even more shocking.
Nevertheless, Liiza and Khan had their fair share of advantages, too.
First of all, Khan and Liiza were monsters of their respective fields. Khan was a child of many different worlds, carrying genes that earned him a birthright to the universe’s throne.
anwhile, Liiza was one of the founders of the Niqols’ new old ways. Her entire species had acknowledged her talent ten years ago already, and she had only deepened it since then.
Besides, both Khan and Liiza’s best techniques could ignore the black aliens’ advantage over the mana. Khan’s martial arts were stronger than his spells and couldn’t be affected by that strange ability.
anwhile, Liiza’s new old ways allowed her to evolve past her species’ arts, turning control into domination, according to her short explanation. She had even mutated herself to achieve better results, and the brief battle had vouched for her power.
Ultimately, Khan and Liiza could cooperate at an instinctive level due to the ntal connection. They knew what their partner wanted to do as soon as the idea popped into their mind. Their teamwork wasn’t sothing that could be replicated through ordinary ans.
Those factors culminated in the aliens’ current predicant. Truth be told, despite Khan’s impressive performance, Liiza’s elent had been key to ending things so quickly. Trapping or killing them would have been far more troubleso otherwise.
It was only a matter of deciding what to do with the black aliens now. Their fate was set in stone. Still, their last monts could provide useful information that the universe as a whole might need, and Khan wouldn’t feel any remorse in performing so tests after what they did to his ship.
The lightning bolts Khan had previously created were still hovering inside the purple-red cloud, but one floated upward, rising through the sky to approach the aliens trapped in that cage of ice.
Khan didn’t send the spell crashing into the aliens. He slowed it down until it almost stopped right before those two black entities, getting one inch closer every minute.
The lightning bolt’s destructive presence affected the aliens, tearing their black robes apart and opening cuts on their skin. However, sothing else hit the spell, too.
Despite Liiza’s ice neutralizing everything about those evolved warriors, their existence kept radiating a modicum of its innate effects.
The lightning bolt seed to weaken on its own, its energy vanishing for no apparent reason. That should have been impossible, but the event was happening right before Khan’s eyes, and surprisingly, he could guess why.
The process continued until the lightning bolt completely disappeared. The black aliens did nothing. They couldn’t do anything in their current situation, but the mana still couldn’t exist in their presence, even a version of it as wild as Khan’s.
Khan didn’t stop at that single test. His arm snapped upward, sending a red slash flying at high speed toward the shorter alien. Bloodthirst raged in his brain when the attack pierced the evolved warrior’s torn robe, digging into his skin.
The cursed knife’s will did its best to devour the shorter alien life, relying on Khan’s destruction to spread itself, but its expansion was cut short.
The scarlet slash lost energy on its own, disappearing before it could cut any deeper, only leaving a shallow wound on the black warrior’s torso.
After that second test, there was no denying it anymore. Khan confird his previous realization and accepted all the problems it implied. Yet, the black aliens didn’t give him ti to ponder it.
The taller alien moved his black, seemingly empty gaze to his companion, and the latter matched it. The two seed to have a brief, silent conversation that led to a joint agreent.
The shorter alien attempted to grin again, and the skin on his cheeks cracked due to its frozen state. The sa went for his left arm, which rose toward his horn despite looking on the verge of shattering.
Instead, the taller alien frowned, focusing his ntal prowess on a similar task. His effort paid off since cracks opened on his horn, quickly bringing it to the critical point.
The taller alien’s horn exploded, while the shorter warrior directly ripped off his protuberance, and a dense black gas ca out of those wounds.
Also, the aliens’ eyes lost their black color. That shade seed to flow away, exposing a white sclera. Only a dark dot remained at its center, but a scarlet light shone around it, painting red irises into existence.
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