Blade and beam would contact one another for a split moment before the force of a channeled disjunction meeting the volatile energy caused an explosion that would knock corban several meters back, leaving a foot-deep, three foot wide impact crater. With a focused precision-blast of wind made-pool-cue, he shot himself some good forty extra feet away like a runaway billiard ball. Steaming irrigation canals detailed his flight path, and as the hamster ball rolled to a quick stop, the extent of the beam had been made known. Corban had recalled the disjunction used just moments prior and set it upon Ishtalle to sublimate a decent portion of the beams energy into a wave of sugars and salts that would wash over either combatant like a warm wave of summer. The spare energy diffused into kinetic slipstreams that would punch through several patches of his barrier and robes, burning his left shoulder and right rib in minimal coverage second-degree burns.

Fingers thoughtfully touched over one of the several holes in his robes as he ruminated for half a moment on his mistake, water pooling around his burns as the graphene threads sewed themselves shut over top of them. He was not green to pain, but the touch still made him flinch ever so slightly. Traps like that rarely found purchase. This one almost did, and he acknowledged that fact. His tactics and thinking would need to reflect this development. "Hm, I was being careless..." he said, more to himself than anyone else as he clenched his free hand into a fist. "That won't be happening again."

The first half of the circuit was already complete, albeit somewhat damaged. All that was left to do was finish it. In a flash of violet flame the air around the coccoon crystallized, material filling its broken gaps as it amalgamated in arcing lightning feelers into a complex reinforced diamond-oxygen chrysalis. It was further insulated against magical forces, owing to its already natural spell-resistance and was home to roughly a million carats. The shadow within shrunk marginally, hair exploding forth like ribbon sillhouettes. The operation lasted all but two and a half seconds, and only when the chrysalis collapsed, its fuel spent, was the truth revealed. 

Where once stood a man there now was a woman, hanging robes altered aesthetically into a black and white trimmed, ankle-length jacket with metal-plated gloves woven onto the sleeves. The set even came complete with a wonderful wide-brimmed and pointed hat. The overall aesthetic made her look like a pretty, albeit dangerous dark sorceress, something befitting the so-called "world destroyer". The light-blue blade-flesh that lay beneath was infused with the disjunction that had been placed on Ishtalle, properly owing to her title as a Gestalt. Crimson eyes were now cerulean blue, and brown locks seemed to float as if submerged in water. 

The sword, now inexorably connected to the host body[sup][1][/sup] was perfectly recreated before her, dumped into the earth blade-first. Creating carbon-copies of herself was no issue for the half of the equation that was Ishtalle within the new body, so long as they were summoned within a two meter radius. 'Crystal', as this body was lovingly named, circled her hand, wrenching it from its place without haptic contact as it returned to her. Taking a Gedan-Kamae stance, her free hand amassed the remaining crystals from her incubator into a fused, multicolored hollow centerpiece. With a flick of the wrist, she tossed it skyward where it vanished into the wild clouds of the storm.

[color=red]"Prepare yourself with whatever amenities you like, mage. For you shall need them all!"[/color] she said before craning her head back and summoning forth her best impression of an evil laugh. If she were to be hunted down for some unnamed villainy, she may as well play the part straight and true! Myron's master may have been able to see the future, but it didn't take a clairvoyant to know that the flow of the battle was about to change.

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[1] Crystal - Fusion product between Corban and Ishtalle.

Note: I was unsure if the aerogel was still in effect or not as of Innue's judgment, hence it not being re-mentioned.[/hider]