Gluttony welcomed them with a laugh that fractured the soil. He let the shadow giants crash into him, their arms burrowing into his torso like spears.
For a moment, his body dissolved in thick black smoke where their blows landed, but he regenerated instantly, pushing forward through the onslaught.
His voice carried through the chaos, both mocking and thrilled. "You call these horrors?" he asked. "I have devoured worlds built from nightmares."
But Shade wasn't discouraged. Instead, he clapped his hands together once, an oddly cheerful gesture, and the giants detonated.
Their forms collapsed into storms of razor-thin blades of darkness, shredding everything in a wide radius, including Gluttony's physical shell.
The titan staggered as half his torso was flayed away in writhing ribbons. Yet even as his body dissolved, Gluttony only laughed louder, as if Shade's brutality confirmed his suspicions.
