The space around them was completely silent and dead.
There was no wind or earth to carry the sounds of a battle.
There was only the heavy pressure of a Level 90 Grand Sage radiating divine authority and the deeply annoyed Level 60 Drifter standing across from him.
Eldric the Timekeeper floated inches above the marble platform. His eyes were twin galaxies of swirling silver light. He held his glowing hourglass staff with the casual grip of a god who had never lost a fight in his entire digital existence.
"Your move, Anomaly." Eldric's telepathic voice echoed directly into Sebastian's skull.
Sebastian didn't say a word nor did he scream a battle cry. He just gripped the hilt of his massive concrete-encrusted Earth Sword and kicked off the marble floor.
With his twenty-percent physical synchronization and his limiters forcefully broken, Sebastian crossed the fifty yards in a fraction of a microsecond.
