Garrick reacted first, throwing up his Protective Dome and sealing everyone inside it.
The next second, the squad unloaded.
Skills detonated across the Infernal pack in rapid bursts—layered, overlapping, nonstop.
Big Mike cycled Toxic Rain and Rain of Flames back to back. Henry's Rain of Light lanced down in curtains. Skinny Pete ripped the air apart with a tornado. Mia's Ice Blade Storm turned the battlefield into a grinder.
Under that kind of wide-area pressure, the Infernal numbers started dropping fast.
The Infernals flared their Immolation Aura almost immediately, trying to burn away anything that got close—but the squad was Stage B now. Tier 16 and Tier 17 Infernals couldn't hold up, aura or not.
Tier 17s could hang on for a bit.
Tier 16s were basically instant deletes.
And the Stage B Infernals?
Those were Ethan's.
