Hadama betrayed neither amusement nor impatience as Kaiden wrestled with the bottle, simply holding it steady with implacable serenity until the mershark gave up finished their addition. The jar's top had not been particularly narrow... but given what he could sense through the bond, the mermanta was prepared to accept his young friend's frustration.
Before he could frame a response, however, the echo sharks arrived and removed the need to do so.
I will take the one with the scarred nose, he rumbled, calm but just as clearly determined to remove the threat to themselves decisively. It was, luckily, not the one that Kaiden chose to engage with. The wave pushed out from the mershark, their magic still weak enough that it mostly confused the echo shark. It was enough for the predator to flinch away from its attack, however, turning aside at the smarting contact to its own sensitive nose where the water magic had booped against it.
Hadama's gravity spike was more effective, even in the pressures of the depths. The water itself warped and compacted within the sphere of power, twisting wildly as the energy released to lance downwards in a fatal bludgeon of gravity that smashed against the shark's skull. Although the damage was mostly contained and only a little blood leaked from its mouth and ears, it was enough to make the remaining two sharks began to swim with greater agitation before charging in towards the merfolk again.
Before he could frame a response, however, the echo sharks arrived and removed the need to do so.
I will take the one with the scarred nose, he rumbled, calm but just as clearly determined to remove the threat to themselves decisively. It was, luckily, not the one that Kaiden chose to engage with. The wave pushed out from the mershark, their magic still weak enough that it mostly confused the echo shark. It was enough for the predator to flinch away from its attack, however, turning aside at the smarting contact to its own sensitive nose where the water magic had booped against it.
Hadama's gravity spike was more effective, even in the pressures of the depths. The water itself warped and compacted within the sphere of power, twisting wildly as the energy released to lance downwards in a fatal bludgeon of gravity that smashed against the shark's skull. Although the damage was mostly contained and only a little blood leaked from its mouth and ears, it was enough to make the remaining two sharks began to swim with greater agitation before charging in towards the merfolk again.
