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Mallory moved at a speed that made it difficult to tell whether the goddess was truly weakened or simply pretending. Her elementalized body streaked through space even faster than the phenomenon she'd turned herself into.
Erratic bursts of light flashed across space as she pursued the thief who'd stolen her amulet, closing the distance and summoning her Tempest Avatar to attack without hesitation.
Mallory didn't bother exchanging words with them. She intended to kill first and question their dead soul afterward.
The Tempest Avatar's fist descended at FTL speed, immense force and energy packed behind it, but just before impact, the thief turned around, a multi-coloured sheath of energy wrapping their fist as they met its blow.
The collision of her Avatar's fist with the thief's unleashed a shockwave so powerful it destabilised the orbits of every star system within a thousand light-years.
Mallory's frown deepened as her senses instantly registered what had just occurred.
