Battle of the Black Dragon Gate (2)

Eight beasts—a white tiger with wings, a black wolf oozing lunar aura, a crimson hawk bathed in vermillion flames, a white-armored bear crackling with lightning, a massive python covered in the hardest gemstones with the earth itself moving to protect its body, a towering elk with icy fragments growing on its antlers and fur, a magnificent, green peafowl surrounded by a raging zephyr, and a hulking silver-furred ape that seemed to distort space around it—ganged up on the two equines.

Strangely, both Zeth and Aemorus merely gazed at their opponents with utter contempt, valiantly fighting back with roaring blue flames and pure, blinding light. 

Not a hint of fear showed on their equine faces.

The two had long known the Eight Spirit Kings of Gomparo, and the duchess even dreamt of this exact scenario multiple times.

There was simply no way she would cower.