The Santa Mon 5 Miles highway sign hit the Clockwork Lurker with the force of a freight train.
Maddie swung the heavy, rectangular slab of reflective green metal like a massive executioner's paddle. The electrified battery strapped to the reinforced steel pole surged, discharging a blinding arc of blue voltage right as the sign collided with the construct's rusted chassis. The impact sounded like a car crash. The Victorian-style ironwork shattered, sending a spray of jagged shrapnel and sparking copper wire over the edge of the endless, wrought-iron stairwell.
They were already forty levels deep into the Iron Labyrinth, and the vertical nightmare was fully awake.
