The guardian's antlers caught Kohen in the back before he could recover his balance and sent him hurtling across the broken ground like a ragdoll. He hit the far wall of the pit with a crack that echoed off the stone, and for a moment, he didn't move.
The beast didn't wait to confirm the kill. It swung its massive head toward me, those dim blue eyes burning cold in its crystal skull, and charged.
Twelve feet of living stone and glacial fury barreling toward me with the subtlety of an avalanche.
I threw a wall of white flames directly into its path. The fire crashed against its body and rolled off the dark slate plates like water off a boulder. Not a scorch mark. Not even discoloration. The thing ran straight through my flames as if they were decoration.
'Are you kidding me?'
