Kaiden exhaled once.
'System.'
The overlay pulsed at the edge of his awareness.
'Couldn't you have warned me that this was coming?'
[All Dungeon Master Battles manifest differently. No two dimension seals look alike.]
Kaiden stared at the text for a full breath.
'...Great.'
Around him, his women were still coming back to themselves. Aria's silver eyes were wider than he had ever seen them, fixed on the gate. Nyx had turned slowly in place, her gaze crossing the sky that wasn't a sky.
When she spoke, she said it mostly to herself.
"This is just fucked up."
Calypso was louder. Calypso was always louder when the tension broke.
"Did you all see that?!"
The demoness's axe tapped the stone once in rhythm with her volume.
"He just tore the earth from under your mom's shadow! And took those giant chunks with him!"
"Muscle-brained demon," Bastet said from the other side of her, ears twitching once, slow, "stop being excited about our enemy's overwhelming might."
