[Phase Time Remaining: 01:42:18.]
[Dungeon Ground Held: 53%. Enemy Forces Eliminated: 3%.]
Kaiden read it twice.
Then a third time, slower, because something had to be wrong with the rendering.
"...Fuck."
'But how...?'
His line had not moved a meter. His Monoliths were holding the chokehold. The second wave's casualties were piled in the Safe Zone at the gate, smoking.
He had not lost a single foot of ground that he could see from where he stood.
But the tracker said he was down to half.
His grin flattened, and his pulse exploded.
He swiped the map view down the kill route, past the chokehold, past the corridor, past the Sink, right into the magma channel.
The rendering came up in his peripheral and his stomach dropped for the first time since the gate had sealed.
The magma was dark.
