Just then, the chamber door slid open behind them.
Principal Tian Long and two more professors stepped in. Then a third. Then five. The room grew more crowded as word spread.
And then General Chen entered.
Tall. Silent. Armor on even indoors.
Behind him came two hunched old men, the two old geezers General Maru and General Riki.
"Send in more drones." General Chen commanded after he was brought up to speed about the situation.
"I was just thinking of that." Professor Kong Hu nodded in agreement.
"You think you're close to the end?" he said into the mic. "Think again. This is what failure to sacrifice for the team feels like."
And then he pressed a few buttons to release a new batch of drones.
On screen, Damien Bloodbane stood tall at the edge of the barricade, expression unreadable.
