West sliced through another creature's underarm and kicked its body aside. "Very proud of you."
"You sound distracted."
"I'm busy not getting stabbed."
The second wave was faster, but it lacked the sheer durability of the first.
Once the group adapted to their attack patterns, the fight turned sharply in their favor. West took down the strongest of them by baiting a forearm blade strike, stepping inside its reach, and driving the Guardian Sword upward beneath its jaw.
Jax and Gor'thala coordinated to trap three together, freezing their feet just long enough for Gor'thala's vines to bind them. Nina then dropped a massive construct hammer from above, crushing their skulls one after another with brutal efficiency.
When the final creature fell, silence returned except for the distant bubbling of lava.
They moved again with morr caution now.
