The battle began the very millisecond the dust from the explosion touched the damp floor of the cave.
The monsters that Lohan recognized as the Corrupted Root Mutants, creatures with moss-green skin and twisted limbs, charged forward with a roar that, despite their plant-like bodies, echoed off the stone walls.
Lohan, maintaining absolute focus through his parallel thought process, sensed every vibration in the air and every thermal signature of the Players under his protection.
The black biomass armor he had formed over their bodies pulsed with a neon-blue light, ready for the onslaught to come.
Dee and VonB were the first to act.
Dee, the tank warrior from Alice's team, raised his heavy shield, while VonB, Dylan's warrior, swung his two-handed axe in a devastating horizontal arc.
