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Kazura was mistaken in who was the target of Taima's growling incantations and as he struck against her, the power within her words was unleashed not against him but rather in protection of herself. A great dragon's maw - silver and ethereal in nature - manifested around the draconian and it lunged forward to intercept Kazura's palm and the flare of power that rend and tore at the threads of her spell.

His hand collided with its snout, and though it lacked physical form it stayed him all the same. The collision of power was titanic and both wavered as the proverbial unstoppable force struck immovable object.

It was uncertain which would have won out in the end, as Taima lunged forward with a powerful stroke of her wings. Kazura was momentarily stayed by the visage of the dragon, but it swiftly dissipated as Taima erupted forth from its maw with her halberd sweeping a wide blow for his exposed abdomen. Tendrils of light and arcs of electricity trailed in its wake but Kazura vanished as she closed the distance.

Behind you.

She furled one wing, rolling in place to face Kazura while her momentum carried her on her path which drew her away from him. Once again she swept her halberd across as she twisted in air, but this time it was her own momentum that landed her swing short and both his kick and her halberd missed their marks.

She didn't relent though and as Kazura rose into the air, Tiama gave him little room for pause. The force of her ascent after him fractured the stone beneath her and her wings created gale blasts that sent cracked pillars crumbling to the ground to join the rubble of the destroyed buildings that Kazura had brought down.

She turned to his own game and vanished from view as she closed in on him, but rather than appear behind him as he might have expected, she chose to appear above. Within her maw a focused blast of energy grew charged with a mixture of fire, electricity, and an edge of raw kinetic force.

It was unleashed downwards as a hammer upon an anvil, set to drive Kazura back down to the ground below under the titanic blow.