The wind shrieked past her ears, and her vision blurred.
But the sensation of weightlessness did not last long, because lightning had already dyed the sky purple along her path.
Raiden Shogun stood silently in Rhinedottir's flight path, her left leg slightly bent forward and her right leg braced behind her. She lowered her body to the limit, and Musou Isshin in her hand was already humming.
It was not the sound of the blade, but the wail of air unable to withstand the concentration of high-intensity Electro energy.
"The debt from back then is due!" Raiden Shogun said as she drew her blade.
The blade flashed.
There were no flashy moves, only pure speed and pure power.
That slash split the clouds, split the wind, and split Rhinedottir's body, leaving behind a crack in the sky that lingered for a long time.
But this was not the end.
Before Rhinedottir could even scream, the once-clear sky had turned a murky yellow.
It was not dusk. A meteor had blocked out the sun.
Zhongli floated silently in midair with his hands behind his back, his robes snapping in the wind as he slowly uttered four words: "Heavenly Principles."
A colossal meteor, trailing fire, scraped through the atmosphere with a deafening roar. It was not falling—it was smashing down.
It struck Rhinedottir with perfect precision as she fell through the air, still split in two.
It was an absolute crushing advantage of mass.
There was no technique to it at all. It was simply heavy, simply hard.
Rhinedottir was so tiny before the Heavenly Star that she was nearly invisible. Like a speck of dust, she was carried along by that enormous rock and sent hurtling toward the ground even faster.
At the instant the Heavenly Star fell, a clear gust