Mana beasts

"[Do you think they lost control]?" Khan asked, casually waving his hand to his left.

A purple-red slash escaped Khan's fingers, which expanded while flying at an incoming ape-like mana beast. The creature was huge and burly, twice the size of the average Thilku, but the spell cut it in half before it could even come close to unleashing its rampage.

The slash's effects didn't stop at that single cut. The ape's two halves kept moving forward, driven by the previous momentum, but their structural integrity was already gone. It only took a second for those huge figures to shatter as if they were made of glass, leaving behind black emptiness.

That wasn't the end. The slash didn't deplete its power after severing the ape in half. Instead, it continued to fly forward, splitting on its own into tinier versions of itself to chase after the other mana beasts nearby.