I got it now!

The fate of the Shadow Realm hinged upon one thing - how quickly Blytoros could defeat the Octopus God.

If he failed to do so in time, his late victory would lose all meaning if the massive octopus army wiped out his troops and dispersed to do the same to his nearly defenseless Kingdoms within the Shadow Realm.

But the Octopus God was proving to be an extremely resilient enemy. Despite being burned over and over again by the powerful meteors that landed upon it, it simply refused to die.

In fact, it seemed to be taunting Blytoros slightly as it sent its tentacles to try and wrap around his limbs.

Having learnt his lesson, Blytoros did not slice the tentacles away. Instead, he got his clones to deftly grab hold of those tentacles and struggled to tie them up together!

If they weren't emitting so much power that could easily turn normal Primals to dust, Elliot might even find their fight slightly hilarious.