'They are both on their last leg and their bond allows me not to hold my punches anymore. Maybe their touching reunion made Verhen forget that the tower's priority is preserving Elphyn's life but I haven't.
'I've killed three of her hosts already. Maybe the fourth time is the charm.' With a mere thought, the Yggdrasill collected several runes among those scattered in the sky and assembled them into another Annihilation.
It was overkill but the World Tree wanted to end the conflict before more of his Golems would be destroyed. With Verhen dead and Elphyn under their command, the battle would finally end.
Also, the Yggdrasill couldn't risk another person imprinting the tower before them again.
The aura of the creature born from the fusion between Lith and Solus was still rising, its body was still growing in size when the anti-Guardian spell arrived. Golden scales emerged between the black ones, covering the red skin below.