The Shadow Alpha's darkness hit like a physical weight.
It wasn't just shadow. It was the absence of light, of warmth, of everything that made the world feel real. Where it touched the ground, frost withered and died. Even Reign's ice recoiled from it.
She threw her power forward anyway.
Ice met shadow in a collision that cracked the frozen earth. Both forces screamed against each other, neither giving ground. Reign poured everything into the attack, felt her reserves draining fast.
The Shadow Alpha didn't even look strained.
"Is that all?" She moved forward, darkness flowing with her like a living cloak. "The Winter Storm who terrified the Council?"
Reign shifted tactics. Instead of meeting the shadow head-on, she went around it. Ice spears from three angles, forcing the Shadow Alph
