Cyntra and the other elders had been chosen by Night as her teachers because of their power and skill so they considered themselves more than dignified baggage for the Hushed King's group.
Yet their pride gave way to humility the moment Kigan rushed at the enemy lines.
The Cursed element made the temperature in the room drop by dozens of degrees yet it was nothing compared to what happened to anything that came in contact with it. The bodies of the undead were frozen to the bone, their bodily fluid increasing in volume and making their flesh and bones shatter from the sheer pressure.
In less than one second, anyone grazed by the living Zero turned into a pile of red crystals and then into ashes.
Enchanted protections failed, enchanted metal became as brittle as glass, and even the solid stone of the golems melted into ice shards when Phoenix's Cursed body clawed at them.