Sephiroth's unnerving gaze was on Adelle the moment she popped into the clearing with him and the sorceress of time. With all the noise she had been making fighting monsters on the way up, it was hard to miss her approach, but even without the ruckus, he would have felt that presence. She was a strong one, to be sure; he wasn't able to pin her as one of the legendary Warriors of Light he had heard so much about from the renegade knight Garland, but she had surely accomplished some great things in her past, and would be seeking to do so again right now. Unfortunately, the ex-SOLDIER didn't have time for dream-seekers at the moment.<br/><br/>Stepping forward to place himself between the red mage and Ultimecia, he flicked his freshly blood-stained blade to send loose droplets into the snow, then turned his body to the side as he lifted the blade in a high stance. The blood may have at least answered what Adelle had seen take down Leviathan. Despite the distance between the two warriors, the length of his sword meant he could probably step forward and decapitate her with a single swipe, if she wasn't prepared. "I hope you've come ready to face defeat. The last bastion of light will be crushed today."<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Above the tower, the massive ball of dead known as Legion slowly recovered from the hit it took from the King of Summons, its protective layer of corpses spreading itself thinner in order to patch the hole in its defense. The supply of zombies it could drop, however, appeared to be as limitless as ever, as it released even more shambling, biting, clawing undead into the gardens where Aphie was sensing the arrival of her long-time nemesis, in the towers where Rydia was fighting her way up to her wounded surrogate father, and everywhere else where falling bodies could reach. While the zombies weren't a particularly dire threat to even the most untrained warriors, their numbers were starting to become so great that they were on the threshold of being too much to handle. If the summoned atrocity was allowed to continue its attack uninterrupted for any longer, this war between Cosmos and Chaos would come to an early and abrupt end, in victory for the forces for darkness.