movements would have been restricted by the wire's tension, and Shalk, jumping from the bell tower, would have created the perfect opportunity to run his skull through. And he can still fly, too?
Had he missed Alus's internal organs by a stroke of bad luck? Or perhaps, was there some unknown magic item at his disposal that made it possible to keep fighting, even in his current state?
I'm dubious that I'll be able to follow through with a frontal attack but, well, no other choice here. Escaping from his restraints, Alus didn't pursue Shalk.
Instead, a lightning bullet was brought down on him.Shalk ran a bit faster than the flash of lightning and evaded the trajectory of the bolt before it bored into the earth.
As he escaped, he never for a moment dropped his sight from his enemy in the sky. Alus was flying upside down. In this situation, he couldn't afford to ignore the Aureatia army's cannon barrage, either.
Being on the ground was, in fact, the superior position against
an enemy forced to watch the sky.
"...They're getting in the way..."
"You use a gun, but you're scared of bullets? Quite the ordeal
there, Alus the Star Runner."
Even a single shot hitting the tip of his wing should have been more than the wyvern could afford. While he adjusted his slightly off-set flight, he would get hit with the incessant storm of scatter shots. This was the reason why shrapnel fire, each individual shot having a low impact, was effective against wyverns.
Conversely, Shalk the Sound Slicer didn't even possess the
