The seventh spear tore through the Herald's stomach.
Highly acidic digestive contents spilled directly into the abdominal cavity, creating severe chemical burns in addition to the massive mechanical trauma.
The Herald's fading consciousness registered the horrifying sensation.
Not merely the physical pain, but the clinical recognition that its fundamental biology was breaking down, that systems designed to function together over centuries were being forcibly separated and destroyed.
The internal heat of the dragon was turned against itself, cooking its own entrails from the inside out.
The eighth spear obliterated the Herald's left kidney.
Matching the destruction on the opposite side, the spear burst through the lower flank.
The Herald's capacity to filter and process its own life essence was systematically destroyed in a fraction of a second.
