Neil drove the Frost blade through its neck and the Inferno blade through its chest and discharged both at once.
The second Mythic class creature died.
Both bodies split immediately.
The four new creatures that emerged were in the 5th Origin but below Mythic class, their frames visibly larger than the 5th Origin individuals that had formed through the feeding cycle but not at the same scale as the Mythic ones.
He killed all four.
Eight more appeared.
The Nest had turned into something that would have been difficult to describe to anyone who hadn't been inside it.
The white floor was almost entirely invisible beneath the accumulated evidence of hours of sustained combat, the cracks in the surface running in every direction and the dark residue of dissolved compounds from his Aquamorph mixing with the kill aftermath of techniques that broke down rather than cut open.
