The corridor shook with every step it took.
Jin didn't back away. He planted his feet and watched the thing come, stone cracking under its hooves, the reshaped cleaver dragging a line of sparks along the wall beside it. At this size it filled the passage almost completely, horns scraping the ceiling, red light pulsing through the fresh cracks in its skull like something was burning inside it.
"Do-yun," Jin said, eyes never leaving it. "Floor. Right in front of it."
Do-yun was already moving. He dropped to one knee and slammed both palms flat against the stone, and the Epicenter Shard flared warm in his pocket. The pulse didn't spread out in a wide ring the way it used to. It shot forward in a single tight line, straight down the corridor, and burst upward exactly where the Minotaur's front hoof was coming down.
