The rise did not give them any breathing room
Lirael's second charge was stronger than the first, Outer God pressure pushing constructs of hers in linked pairs up the broken stone. Containment layered over containment to shrink the area Team Zero occupied.
Lucian met the charge head-on
There was no warning, no change in his stance, only that he stepped forward and the air around him grew heavier. The first construct to reach him was already folding in on itself, limbs and core housing peeling inward as if the space it occupied had decided it was finished. One Specialist tried to trap him with a containment pattern built from twin rods, but Lucian simply stepped through the space the construct had occupied and took the nearest Specialist by the front of his gear, driving him backward into the stone until cracks spiderwebbed out from under his knees.
