Without a word, the former husband and wife attacked each other.
Radagon went from standing still to charging forward as fast as golden lightning. The ground cracked beneath his feet, fractures spreading like cobwebs. He dragged the enormous stone hammer behind him in one hand, its head scraping sparks off the ground-then leaped, swinging the hammer through a perfect arc in midair and bringing it down on Rennala with a howling rush of wind.
There was nothing fancy about that blow. Pure strength. Pure destruction.
But the Queen of the Full Moon was no stranger to battle, either.
She neither panicked nor retreated in fear, nor even blinked. Rennala immediately floated gracefully backward, her robes trailing a smooth curve through the air like moonlit lake water rippling in a breeze. As she withdrew, she swept her staff, and the Caria glintstone at its tip blazed-
Three devastating Comets shot toward Radagon.
Each Comet held decades of the Queen of the Full Moon's accumulated magic. The azure masses of energy spun, compressed, and expanded in flight, radiating pressure that would make any sorcerer's heart tremble. An ordinary Comet could pierce a stone wall. Rennala's could pierce a city wall.
But Radagon did not dodge.
Nor did he block.
He raised his left hand and swept it swiftly through the air. His cracked, bronze-colored arm left an afterimage as his powerful palm struck the incoming magic with perfect precision-
"Bang!"
The first Comet was slapped away like a swatted fly. The mass of energy, powerful enough to destroy a tower, gave a piercing whine the instant it touched his palm. Then an utterly unreasonable force deflected it, sending it hurtling sideways into the distant ground, where it exploded into a blue sphere several meters across.
The second and third Comets met the