Halberd to the heart

A stunned look rippled across the woman's face the instant her Third Realm Spell flew completely out of her control!

"What!?" she hissed under her breath, scouring the battlefield with urgent eyes. How had he done it? How had this Soul Realm cultivator, who was barely more than a mortal in her estimation, so diverted a spell brimming with Third Realm might?

She had no time to unravel the puzzle. With the water serpent gone, nothing stood in the way of the dark spear formed from malevolent energies. Her gaze darted toward the incoming threat—a twisting lance of ominous power streaking toward her like a falling star of calamity.

"Damn it!" the woman cursed, hastily weaving her fingers to summon a shield of water. Luminous droplets coalesced into a crystalline barrier.

No sooner had she raised the shield than the black spear struck.

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!"