Zephyrion could already imagine what everyone watching was thinking. Like Arcturus, they probably believed the battle had reached its final stand, that what followed would be some desperate battle of attrition until one of them finally gave in.
However, that wasn't what Zephyrion intended at all.
A battle of attrition wasn't the image he wanted to leave in the minds of the empire.
When they remembered this fight, he didn't want them saying the Lightning Prince had struggled. That the fight had been close, that Arcturus had nearly defeated him.
No.
He wanted it to be one-sided.
An overwhelming beatdown.
Pure and total domination.
Until now, he'd held back because he needed the Calamity Metal, but that no longer mattered. Whatever amount he needed, he could simply take after the battle.
It was time to go all out.
Zephyrion slowly exhaled, feeling the chaotic air fill his lungs as his eyes drifted shut.
Arcturus immediately frowned. Closing his eyes in the middle of a battle?
