Deep in Vester's infrastructure, Adept Rowan Kadesh and the Covenant Adept Tertius fought the ant queen with coordinated desperation.
Their temporary alliance was holding—barely—maintained only by the simple fact that the queen would kill them both if they didn't cooperate.
Rowan's Titanic Strength let him match the queen's physical power, his blade carving deep wounds into her chitin plating. But she was fast for something so massive, her mandibles snapping with speed that required Adept-level reflexes to evade.
Tertius fought with religious fury channeled into tactical precision, his own enhancement cores pushing him to capabilities that rivaled Rowan's. His strikes targeted the queen's legs, trying to cripple mobility, while Rowan focused on her head and thorax.
