Chapter 298: Space
On the other side of the chamber, Vaelira’s puppets rushed forward in unison, slamming their blades and claws against the Heart’s surface, making it bleed from a thousand wounds.
Jack’s hammer crashed down on it like a falling wall while Sasha’s arrows detonated with controlled magic bursts, and Diaz’s relentless strikes carved deeper into the swollen flesh.
Its healing slowed. The torn tissue didn’t immediately stitch itself back together anymore. The wounds lingered, smoking and raw.
"We’re doing it!" Jack bellowed, driving his weapon in again with renewed vigor.
Finally, they were starting to make a dent in it. The fact that it all happened because of the actual boss monster taking from it didn’t seem to impact his mood.
The Countess raised her arms. The mana tether went white-hot, and her shadow seemed to splinter into dozens of jagged shapes.
From the edges of the chamber came the first answering skitter. Then another.
The massive door to the boss room buckled with a hollow boom before splintering in half, the stone frame cracking outward.
They rushed in.
The same spiders Kaiden’s party had slaughtered by the hundreds on their march here came flooding through in a tide of clicking legs and snapping jaws. Somehow, five of them had survived, tucked away in unseen tunnels perhaps, and now they came to answer their mother’s call.
But as they crossed into the Countess’s presence, she reached for them. Not in a physical sense, but with that pulsing tether of power she now controlled.
The effect was immediate. Their movements sharpened into coordinated precision, their bodies swelling, claws lengthening, eyes glowing with a mirrored hunger. They shed their shells during their charge, revealing fresher, harder carapaces beneath.