Faced with the Ork boss's unstoppable charge, the figure remained perfectly still, her long black hair the only thing whipping wildly around her.
In the gaps between flashes of lightning, Kaoreish saw that she was a woman, her flowing silk robes lashing and waving like the tentacles of some deep-sea monster.
Even amid the thunder of battle, he could still hear her singing.
The music's magic lifted her up. A song composed of pure power kept her floating above the tower's summit, hundreds of sound waves unbelievably overlapping as heart-rending notes collided and burst from her throat.
Stones rose from the pyramid's peak, spinning as they drifted toward the vaulted ceiling. Her song had already torn reality apart.
"Damn it! What's this female Shrimp..."
Right before Ur's eyes, a discordant syllable broke free amid a deafening crescendo. A violent explosion immediately blasted a massive boulder off the pyramid, sending the huge rock tumbling through a torrent of light.
The pyramid shook as the boulder crashed into the Ork lines, crushing some warriors beneath it and knocking down many more.
Then part of the dome collapsed amid a landslide-like tremor, rocks and rubble rolling down upon them.
Ur struggled to keep his balance as an armored warband boy slid down the stone slope, about to plunge straight into the pile of rubble.
He climbed through the collapsing pyramid, leapt desperately toward the edge, grabbed the warrior's armor, and dragged him back to somewhere slightly safer.
"Stay put. Don't go wandering around."
As soon as he finished roaring, Ur saw that one of the boy's legs had been severed halfway up the thigh. Part of his chest and upper arm had also been crushed, congealed blood gathering around his wounds like glass that had yet to cool, while sharp fragments of stone