The severed upper half of the Alpha Void-Isopod smoked on the obsidian floor, leaking necrotic green fluid into the cracks.
Maddie lay on her back, her breath tearing through her lungs in ragged, desperate gasps. Her hands were locked in a death grip around the black-iron haft of her new halberd. The bones in both her forearms were fractured, the skin already bruising a deep, violent purple beneath her armor.
She had paid the price.
But as the dust settled over the kill-box, the System delivered the reward.
A cascade of crystalline blue and mythic-gold prompts flooded Will's UI, scrolling so fast they temporarily blinded him.
[Faction Kill: Abyssal Alpha Void-Isopod (Level 45) Defeated!]
[Level Gap Bonus Applied: Warlord +4,200 EXP]
[Level Up! Warlord: Level 18 → 19]
Will dismissed the EXP notifications with a blink. He only cared about the gold text hovering directly over his Vanguard.
[Item Bound: Sovereign's Executioner (SANTA MON Variant)]
