Too Traumatized

"...Swiftest river, claim the stride, sever my weight."

Celeste chanted the words, and her body dissolved into rushing water in an instant. It surged forward, moving across the ground at incredible speed.

As she got closer to where the children were in danger, she started to hear loud booming sounds echoing through the air.

Hard impacts rang out, as if someone was slamming the ground with all their strength.

The sound alone was enough to tell her how brutal the fight was, and it made her push her speed even further.

But when she finally arrived, what she saw was nothing like what she expected.

On one side stood Magna. He was frozen in place, with a yellowish mist of mana wrapped around him like a cloak. His body was tearing apart at the edges, his flesh splitting open only to heal back at the exact same terrifying speed.