The maze had changed.
Each corridor now pulsed with a strange rhythm.
The silence from earlier was gone. The only thing left was tension. Coiling. Crawling. Waiting.
Selena stepped carefully around the corner, boots wet from ichor, only to freeze.
Something stood at the far end of the corridor.
Massive.
Humanoid.
Armor like obsidian plated across its limbs, etched with runes that shimmered dully—then blacked out like dying stars.
Its presence snuffed out everything.
She didn't even wait for it to move, as she instinctively knew that it was an enemy.
Without a word, three devourer beasts with bone riders on their backs jumped out of her shadow and rushed forward.
Selena, however, frowned.
The creature stood unmoving even as the three devourers, armed with skeleton soldiers, rushed at it.
Then the unexpected happened.
The devourer beast whimpered and withered into smoke the moment they reached the creature. The undead soldiers followed, clattering into heaps of bone.
