Syra drew her dagger. She pointed toward the glowing spinal cables connecting the knights to the engine, and then pointed to the vials of highly corrosive toxin strapped to the sappers' belts.
The Troglodytes nodded, instantly understanding the improvised strategy.
While the sappers spread out along the edge of the blood lake, Syra unleashed the full power of her mythic Ley-Crystal. She bypassed the ambient lighting entirely, pulling pure, solid darkness straight from the corners of the vault.
She manifested fifty microscopic needles of compressed shadow directly behind the necks of the grafted guards.
With a sharp twist of her wrist, Syra drove the shadow constructs forward. The needles severed the brain stems of all fifty knights simultaneously. The guards slumped forward against the metallic casing, instantly dying without making a single sound.
