The cavern's atmosphere trembled. The Cross Light faction's twenty-four had already encircled the rune-bearing pond, but the moment Lily's group arrived, the cavern filled with lethal intent.
Big D cracked his neck. "Perfect warm-up."
Admiral Rudra blurred forward, his fists collapsing the air into void-tides that devoured the first three enemies before they could even raise their staffs. Lily's chakrams split into a dozen arcs of black brilliance, weaving between heads and torsos—eight bodies fell in an instant, torn to ribbons.
The pond boiled with unleashed power as the remaining Cross Light fighters roared, unleashing magic that painted the cavern with fire, frost, and thunder. But Regalons walked through it as if through shallow rain. Natalia's halberd carved through a frontline, Kira's serpentine daggers pierced throats in silence, and Big D himself caught one peak Grim Student mid-incantation and simply ripped him apart with brute force.
