The Netherworld Wolf seized the gap while Aldric was fighting the Demon Eye and pounced again from the side, going straight for his backside, ready to "go for the ass."
Aldric felt a sudden chill down his back as the edge of his defensive alchemy array was torn open by the Netherworld Wolf's claws.
Then the Netherworld Wolf's abyssal maw viciously bit toward his lower vital area.
Aldric's expression turned cold. With a sweep of his alchemist's robe, a phantom golden hand slammed into the Netherworld Wolf and sent it flying.
But in that brief delay, the "Lynn-Style Triangular Kill" formed by Lynn and the other two had already arrived.
The Chaos Dragon charged in and viciously swatted Aldric with a claw, seeking revenge for the Netherworld Wolf.
The alchemy array on Aldric's body blocked the blow for an instant before shattering with a boom. At the same time, his body twisted sideways, and the dragon claw knocked him off balance.
Lynn, who arrived right after, slashed him across the chest with a Space Blade. His mage robe split open, revealing a layer of silver-white alchemical armor beneath it, covered in fine cracks.
The armor had not completely shattered, but the cracks had already spread across its surface in a continuous trail.
The Void Bat Demon moved during the brief opening Aldric had exposed.
It dove rapidly from high above, its wings folded tight against its sides like a meteor accelerating toward the ground, crashing toward Aldric.
The silver-white armor on Aldric's body shone once more. An unfamiliar alchemy array appeared out of thin air, blocking the Void Bat Demon's path.
The instant the Void Bat Demon touched the array patterns, silver-white light exploded before it in an arcing halo.
The array patterns warped violently outward from the point of