Crack.
Kain's breath hitched.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
It felt like the entire chamber they'd entered was splintering around him. Hairline fractures crawled across the crystal cylinders like glowing veins.
Then the relic's voice boomed: "—CONTAINMENT BREACH—"
"Oh EXCELLENT," the demigod hand screeched, already beginning to glow and summon space blades to destroy the approaching enemies, it can easily destroy them all but it could also tell that more and more powerful ones were 'waking up' as time passed. "YOU JUST HAD TO POKE THE ONE THING IN THIS ROOM THAT LOOKED LIKE IT WOULD RUIN MY DAY AND IT DID. STELLAR WORK."
A containment tube exploded beside it. The hand slapped the creature emerging from it without even looking.
CRUNCH. Shards of crystal rained down.
Kain barely noticed — his palm was still fused to the giant crystal's surface, every nerve in his body drowning under a soothing flood of spiritual energy that his withered body soaked up like rain in the desert.
