The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
He didn't use fire; he used brute, bone-shattering force, his thick arms bulging as he ripped the golden faceplate completely off its chassis, exposing the glowing blue aether-core within.
"Now, Lyra! Burn the core from the inside!" Killian snarled, his pitch-black eyes demanding my strike as he held the thrashing machine in an iron chokehold.
I vaulted onto the beast's knee, my hand driving straight into the exposed, glowing chest cavity. Instead of throwing a wide thermal wave, I concentrated the royal hybrid fire into a single, needle-thin point of white-hot intensity, driving it directly into the liquid aether-core. The sentinel shuddered violently, its steam pistons locking up as the in