The beam hit. The mirror shattered as if impacted by a bomb, the sound of its destruction reverberating throughout the surroundings with unnatural volume. Daimen himself was blown back like a rag doll, the arm that held the mirror clearly broken. The black beam was gone, however, as if it had never existed in the first place.
For a full second, the hydra seemed to stare at the scene. Then it shuddered and collapsed on its side, dead.
The battle was over.
The immediate aftermath of the fight was, in many ways, more nerve-wracking for Zorian than the actual fight had been. After checking up on everyone, it turned out that only one person had actually died in the fighting
—Goliri Ardat, bitten in half by the hydra near the start of the fighting.
However, Goliri was best friends with one
