Chapter 346: Upgraded Wrath
’Who sent you...?’ The question clawed at him, but it was shoved to the very back of his thoughts instantly. Because a far worse truth now demanded his attention.
The swarm of monsters was coming.
The ground shuddered beneath their wings. Their roars drowned even the clash of steel. Every second wasted here in the open was a step closer to being torn apart.
"Let’s move!" Kaiden shouted. "We’ll be overrun in the middle of the street!"
"Moving!" Luna replied with a shout of her own, electricity flaring around her as she fell into stride beside him.
"What about Rae and Riven?" Aria’s voice came instantly, worried. The slightly unhinged pair of twins didn’t spend a lot of time with them yet, but all of them understood that they were good people. Riven, who made her little lab in the part of the basement they didn’t use for their streams, helped Aria a lot with becoming more knowledgeable about the technical aspects of dungeon life.
Rae, meanwhile, was a lot more difficult to approach for the Moon Valkyrie, due to their completely different personalities, but that didn’t make Aria appreciate the woman any less.
The fact that the twins were their guards, right now fighting a battle to the death due to their mission, only added to her feelings.
"We can’t help them if we’re dead!" Nyx responded with a hiss while she weaved a flurry of flying daggers into the incoming horde. The safety of Diaz and the rest of the Runewoven members wasn’t voiced, for even Aria grimaced and steeled her resolve. She had a family to protect; others had to wait until heris lover and sisters were safe. She just hoped that the twins had some tricks up their sleeves to make it out alive.
Bastet’s sunlit aura radiated from her frame like a beacon. "Let’s go!" she declared as her palms formed blazing blasts to cover their fallback.
And so they pulled back as one, using the chaos to make their move. Their formation was tight, steps measured as blades, and magic cut a bloody trail through masked men and scattered beasts.
But even their bloody trail wasn’t enough.