Hardly sudden; Hadama rarely did anything suddenly, after all. His attack built slowly but with inexorable steadiness as his ammo was prepared, and when he did finally send one of the spheres at Kaiden it was slow enough for the mershark to dodge if they chose.
Much to the Tidebreaker's approval, they did not so choose.
Magic danced through the water between them and a fragile shield that was an echo of Hadama's previous defense solidified out of the sea. The hippocampus raised his head, gills flaring as he watched the mershark's ability with a fierce concentration unlike his usual calm countenance. The sphere was not, perhaps, quite as fragile as the shield but it nevertheless shattered when it struck, the two frozen constructs coming apart on impact so that the only thing that Kaiden's rock deflected were little shards of frozen water that were already melting under the pressure of the depths.
Can you do that again? the Tidebreaker asked with that edge of intensity still flavoring his mental voice. He paused to give Kaiden a chance to recover and reset themself before he gave his second sphere a nudge, sending it towards the mershark on a similar trajectory to the first.
Much to the Tidebreaker's approval, they did not so choose.
Magic danced through the water between them and a fragile shield that was an echo of Hadama's previous defense solidified out of the sea. The hippocampus raised his head, gills flaring as he watched the mershark's ability with a fierce concentration unlike his usual calm countenance. The sphere was not, perhaps, quite as fragile as the shield but it nevertheless shattered when it struck, the two frozen constructs coming apart on impact so that the only thing that Kaiden's rock deflected were little shards of frozen water that were already melting under the pressure of the depths.
Can you do that again? the Tidebreaker asked with that edge of intensity still flavoring his mental voice. He paused to give Kaiden a chance to recover and reset themself before he gave his second sphere a nudge, sending it towards the mershark on a similar trajectory to the first.
