Scarlet writing poured from the mage's red mask and gathered into a spear of fire above the soldiers.
Kaiden jumped sideways as it fired. Heat scraped across his back, followed by a crash that showered the plaza with fragments of the steps he had just left.
"There we go," Nyx murmured. "I'd have been disappointed if it only changed their armor's color."
She brought [Harem Vision] online with a thought, sharing her view of the porcelain ranks advancing through the dust. Kaiden opened his feed too, giving the arriving viewers a choice of perspectives.
Alice dissolved into golden light beside the stairs and gathered above Kaiden as a dark halo.
'I see it.'
Reaching the first soldier, he drove his gauntleted fist into its shield with Wrath burning through his body. The impact cracked the translucent armor covering the shield and forced the creature back into its companions.
It stayed standing.
