"I'm going to kill your 'beloved' just like all the previous times."
Zenith's face darkened, "It was you the whole time? Heh..." Her eyes suddenly lost their light, "I see..." She said simply as mana began to gather around her.
Asmodeus raised one hand, and Elion's entire body screamed at him to move. Elion's Enhanced Cognition flared instinctively, and for the briefest instant, he saw a thin invisible line.
It formed in front of Asmodeus' finger and shot toward him without sound. Elion moved as fast as his body could allow him. Even as Zenith's form flickered to defend him, he wasn't going to take his chances.
Substitute!
His body vanished from where he stood, an afterimage taking his place, quickly replaced by a solid piece of rock.
The invisible cut passed through the rock and sliced cleanly into the far wall behind him. The golden-veined stone split open soundlessly, a perfect line carving through it from floor to ceiling.
