Within seconds, the half dead first years were all taking shelter behind it. Ji Chen leaned against a broken drone, trying to recover mana.
Jennifer Aquafrost sat slumped, eyes dull.
Zhao Rui leaned on a stick he'd found, using it like a cane.
"Hold on." Damien Bloodbane said from atop the fortress. "Twenty five more minutes."
Then it was 15.
Then 10 minutes.
Drones kept coming. Fewer now. Glitching. Smoking. The chamber was littered with shattered parts and sparks.
Even the system was starting to wear down.
Fatty collapsed beside Jiang Xiao Yu behind the barricade, wheezing like a punctured bellows. "I'm done. I'm cooked. This pig is roasted."
Jiang Xiao Yu didn't answer. She simply stared ahead, calm and alert, as the echoes of crushed metal faded into the silence.
Damien Bloodbane stood just in front of them, surrounded by broken drones and smoke.
Still untouched. Still destroying drones left and right.
