The moment Aika buried her blade into Yami's skull, she activated flames of decay and watched as they traveled down the length of the steel, consuming his head and then the rest of his body.
Within seconds, his entire frame was consumed and crumbled into green dust, leaving only a charred outline on the ground that the wind began to scatter.
The pool of bubbling darkness on the ground also shuddered before evaporating into the air like a foul black mist.
Aika exhaled and stood up, slowly pulling her blade from the ground. She wiped the lingering green dust from the steel with a hand, then slowly turned, taking in the ruined mountain foothills that had been the battlefield.
The earth had been scorched with small craters in places. Large stains of dark blood soaked into the earth, matting the gray, withered grass where Evelyn and her blood beasts had fought. The dead bodies of some of the hollow Dominants also lay scattered across the uneven ground.
