Ren was completely unaware of the approaching reinforcements.
He was entirely submerged in the battle.
But the exact second the terrifying energy shockwave washed over Sirius, something buried deep within the man answered the call.
Directly beside him, Liu doubled over in mid-air too. He clutched his chest, his eyes trying to roll back in his head. The microscopic, jagged fracture of corruption buried deep within their cores, the scar that absolutely no one had the power to permanently close, was reacting to the true aura of the purple dragon.
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While the other Tamers suffered the paralyzing backlash of the cosmic roar out of his sight, Ren was fighting his own internal war.
The catastrophic, exalted dragon energy violently amplifying the roar slammed into his system, rapidly accelerating the creeping alien energy. Thick, black veins of pure corruption aggressively spider-webbed across his chest and up his neck.
