The southwest periphery was a cluster of mutated houses where the miasma had warped the architecture into impossible angles, walls bending into themselves, doorways opening onto rooms that should not have fit.
Romen and his people were hidden in the largest of them.
They never saw the approach.
Isalyn led them in under the cover of her Astral Veil, the entire group masked, and the first sign Romen's side had that something was wrong was the bronze cube landing in the center of their hideout and detonating into light.
Golden light flooded outward, sealing the structure and the corrupted ground in a dome that snapped shut with a sound like a closing jaw. The air inside immediately became heavy.
Two minutes.
Romen's people exploded into motion before the dust settled. Four veterans reacted on pure instinct.
Aelira moved first, trapping the five pieces of trash immediately.
"Pyrus Vale Fort."
