The elevator doors slid open with a soft chime.
Caelus and Sylvia stepped out into the lobby, their senses immediately on high alert.
Screams echoed from the entrance, and people rushed past them in blind panic.
"Ahhh! Run! This place is not safe!"
"What's going on?" Sylvia's crimson eyes narrowed at the sight.
They pushed through the fleeing crowd, shoving past terrified residents until they reached the main entrance.
And what they saw made them freeze.
A swirling mass of dark energy hung near the apartment doors.
It pulsed and writhed like a living thing, crackling with corruption.
Then, it abruptly shattered.
BOOM!
The dark mass exploded outward, fragmenting into dozens of twisted creatures.
Their bodies were made of shadow and broken light, their forms flickering between solid and ethereal.
Caelus's blood ran cold seeing this.
He knew these things.
"Dark spawns from the abyss," he said in slight shock. "That damned Hollow King, he's here too?"
Screeech!
