The battle was reaching its breaking point.
Despite the immense, primal forces they wielded, Gaia, Erebus, and Khronos began to visibly strain against the monstrous, adaptive power of the trapped Outer One.
Gaia's hyper-Adamantine chains groaned, threatening to snap under the relentless metaphysical force.
Khronos's temporal distortion field flickered, moments of absolute stillness collapsing into chaotic, unpredictable surges, and even the suffocating darkness of Erebus began to thin under the pressure of the Outer One's evolving logic.
"Tsk, we can't keep this up. I'm running out of power." Said Erebus.
Gaia was breathing heavily, even her unmatched life force as the Primordial Earth and Mother of Life couldn't keep in healing and rejuvenating her.
Khronos took a deep breath, his eyes not leaving the body of the Outer One, "We need something to break this deadlock or else we'd be exhausted before we can do any real damage to it."
