The massive, third-ranked Nyoka-Mlima coiled its ten-foot-long snake-like body, its plated scales grinding against each other with a sound like stone scraping against steel.
Its golden eyes locked onto Erik, burning with primal fury and malicious intelligence. Its crocodile-like jaws opened wide, revealing jagged fangs dripping with venom, and another earth-shaking roar erupted from its throat. The air vibrated with raw power, but Erik merely smirked, unaffected.
"That all?" he taunted, shifting his grip on his hammer. Electricity crackled along the weapon's surface, arcs of white lightning licking the frozen metal. The ground beneath his feet frosted over as an icy wind howled around him, his frost aura and thundersnow armour manifesting in full.
