Venerable Davia Stark exhaled.
Her Amaranto Mark III, which once shone so bright that it looked as if the cat head prow of the Spirit of Bentheim was about to explode, had dimmed now that she had discharged all of the accumulated energies in her execution shot.
The last shot had taken too much out of her. It was far too difficult for her to concentrate multiple sources of energy and mix them together without causing them to explode.
The Amaranto Mark III and the reinvented Instrument of Vengeance were both stellar pieces of engineering for being able to channel so much power without causing anything to explode or melt.
Even so, Venerable Stark had pushed several delicate components to their limits and beyond. If not for the fact that her true resonance was able to temporarily boost their tolerances, the Instrument of Vengeance would have shattered into pieces, releasing so much catastrophic energies that her Amaranto Mark III would have struggled to stay in one piece!