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There's a brief moment of quiet before bahamut's own hand clasps around his throat, the zombie contorting to it's feet and launching at him, most likely to get punched away before simply launching at bahamut again and again, draining the Dragon master's magic slowly just through sheer contact, though the controller of the corpse doesn't seem to realize this as it launches at him again and again, trying to land attack after attack with endurance befitting of a rotting corpse stitched together by wires, it's flesh peeling off continuously as it attacks until finally, it's nothing but a humanoid mass of wires. Where the eyes had once been, black voids of highly condensed wires stares at the dragon emperor, though the puppet does something rather unprecedented: it's arm contorts into a blade at insane speeds, striking not at the dragon emperor, but at the strings controlling it, freeing it to move of it's own volition.

As the creature falls into a puddle of wires on the floor, bahamut's hand falls away from his throat, the creature contorting and rising slowly to assume a new form before rushing at the overloading warrior at insane speeds, it's face parting to avoid the punch as it buries it's claws him his chest, wires flooding into his body painfully, draining the magic surprisingly rapidly, causing the fail state to grow ever further away but also draining him of the power to sustain it.

As the autonomous puppet entwines bahamut in it's birth throws, the cloaked warrior remains motionless briefly before blurring and being stopped by the creature from passing via a strike with it's claw, flinging him through a wall with rather exorbitant amounts of force