The Central Market transformed into a battlefield in the span of heartbeats. Sariel's divine radiance blazed through the covered bazaar like captured sunlight, her angelic form shedding its human disguise as she moved with inhuman grace between the vendor stalls. Simultaneously, Vex erupted in shadow and flame, his hybrid nature no longer concealed as he closed the distance with predatory speed.

And caught between them, hundreds of innocent civilians who had come seeking answers found ...