Cerberus surged up through the abyss like an avalanche of muscle, chains, and pure accumulated resentment.
All three heads were completely focused on Thanatos, and that alone would have been bad enough.
The problem was that the infernal hound had just discovered something far more dangerous than anger.
Motivation.
Thanatos saw the creature approaching and immediately raised her reconstructed scythe. Black energy exploded around her body, wrapping her robe in a storm of shadows while dozens of funerary symbols appeared in the air.
"CERBERUS!"
The hound did not slow down.
"I AM YOUR SUPERIOR!"
All three heads roared together.
Thanatos opened a barrier of death directly in front of him.
Cerberus went straight through it.
The structure cracked on the first impact, exploded on the second, and disappeared completely when the central head simply forced its snout through. Thanatos barely managed to leap aside, using her own scythe to propel herself toward a higher platform.
