The Shadow was already moving away from Nigredo, putting distance between them to avoid stray attacks hitting him. Electricity crackled menacingly around the Shadow's hands, almost exactly equal in power to the blast he had just received.

"Seeing as I have no intent on surrendering so easily and he rarely ceases a fight once he's begun it?"

But despite his words, the Shadow didn't want to fight. Rather than attack Albedo, he focused his will and formed a barrier between the two sides of the brewing battle.