Ty focused on the creature, then caught a bright light shimmering beneath it like a beacon in the darkness below. The creature reared, its gaping maw turning towards Ty.
But before the beast could unleash its fury, Rusuf intervened, his silhouette a blur of motion as he nullified the attack, only to be repelled back towards the ship by the sheer force of his counterstrike.
Ty hovered in the silence that followed, his mind racing. "I have time to plan, to waste his time--" he strategized, but the thought shattered. This time, the creature skipped its customary barrage of energy.
Instead, it conjured a whirlpool of spiraling water, a vortex that birthed thousands of needle-like projectiles aimed with lethal precision at Ty.
One moment Ty was planning, and the next, he was dodging a deadly deluge. A single water needle pierced his shoulder, a shock of pain that was as cold as the depths from which it came.
