The descent into the crater felt like dropping a boulder into a pressurized glass vat.
Kyle's seven-foot frame cut through the thick grey smog of the basin, his massive, sweeping horns catching the dim crimson glare of the facility's ley lines. The air tore around his hardened skin as his doubled Strength attribute of 612 loaded into his lower joints. Just as he cleared the halfway mark of the drop, a sudden flash of brilliant white light punctured the darkness above.
"Light Affinity: Kinetic Fracture!" Elara's voice echoed from the high rim.
The spell wasn't designed to deal damage to the Level 60 Malice Sentinels, but the blinding, localized burst of positive polarity energy caught all three sector guardians mid-descent. The sudden flash disrupted their spatial coordination, their elongated bone blades veering off their uniform trajectory as they were forced to deploy their defensive carapaces early.
*BOOM!*
