Adam fully understood that he was now fighting not against Lakma, but against her energy, which was trying to protect the inner space.
The actual Lakma was dead. Her heart and mind had long since left this world. Only her incredible level of power and her will to survive in the face of death had allowed her energy to remain in this world, but only in the form of a crystal beneath the iron tree.
Still, even that didn't mean she would remain in that crystal forever. Sooner or later, her energy would run out, but even if she had enough energy to last five hundred or a thousand years, it wouldn't matter anyway.
With the next World Wipe, which would happen in just six years, her story would come to an end in any case.
Clang. Clang. Clang.
The black needle and flaming rapier clashed time and again, shaking the inner space.
