Calypso hit the pinned front rank while it was still fighting Bastet's dominion. The first hooked limb opened her shoulder, and Carnage answered with smoke boiling from the wound.
Kaiden poured escalation down her bond. Her second swing went through the limb, the chest behind it, and half of the creature beside that.
"They bite almost as hard as our feisty gremlin!" Calypso ripped her axe free in a fan of black blood.
Alice had no warmth coming through a lover's bond. The Light That Destroys simply chose a target beyond Aria's row and burned through its head, its spine, and the terrace wall behind it in one ruler-straight beam.
Three Templebreakers tore themselves out of Bastet's hold. One went for Aria. Luna read the threat, broke off her own kill, and wrapped its hooked limb in lightning before it reached the Moon Valkyrie.
Nyx folded the limb's momentum sideways; Calypso's axe was waiting where space delivered the neck.
