The mountain exploded outward in a deafening eruption as the two broke out into the sky. Jagged rock showered down the sheer cliffs as Sagiri and the Apex Soulless breached into the freezing air above six black's hidden lab.
Kiana emerged first, vaulting fifty paces into the grey twilight sky like a silver phantom. She landed weightlessly upon the razor-thin ridge of an overhanging obsidian crag, dust-rose eyes locking onto Sagiri.
Her slender frame did not shudder even after the uncontrolled strike from Sagiri. In her pale hands, the twin silver void needles hummed with high-frequency resonance, casting cold moonlight reflections across the frozen stone.
Sagiri burst through the now-open mountain fraction of a heartbeat behind her, propelled by the kinetic thrust of the Archive. Twenty floating black blades formed a whirling spiral beneath his boots, catching his descent above the rocky place.
