The last beast of the wave fought ferociously until its final breath. It had given its all—yet numbers overwhelmed it. The students swarmed, blades flashing, until one clean strike from a sword-wielder sent its head tumbling to the ground.
With the battle over, they immediately began hauling core stones from the corpses.
That was when the Six Towering Beasts finally stirred.
A giant ape with four pairs of arms.
A massive black panther with twin tails.
A hulking grizzly bear with midnight fur.
Two crimson-scaled lizards that hissed like boiling metal.
And a colossal python with three heads, each swaying independently.
Zane narrowed his eyes. Something about this felt… wrong.
"Why can't those six beasts attack the students when the horde isn't fully cleared? This felt like the whole thing here is engineered by someone." he wondered.
The system answered before he could think further:
