Burns away Echidna's flesh

I turned back to Noelle.

“Μάχηα Ἑκάτηκ Γραεα!”


Around me, spheres of pink light bloomed, and from them shot more sizzling beams, all aimed at her. She screamed as they hit, burning off flesh and searing away the meat of her lower body, carving her apart with light and heat one little bit at a time. The instant one beam finished, the sphere it had come from would fire again, and then again, striking her with rays of light that fell upon her like raindrops.

I was not hitting her as hard as I could with this. No, of course not. They would have ripped her — and everyone inside of her — to shreds at full power. Instead, I had throttled this spell so that it would only do surface damage, the way Legend had been, so that I could whittle away at the monster to the people beneath.