The notification blazed across every Awakener's interface simultaneously.
⸢THE GATE WORLD BOSS HAS BEEN DEFEATED⸥
⸢GATE WORLD HAS BEEN CLEARED SUCCESSFULLY⸥
The Golden Spire Leader stopped so abruptly that the three Awakeners behind him crashed into his armored back.
His face, already reddened from the bitter cold of the Crucible, went completely white.
"No," he whispered, staring at the translucent window hovering before his eyes. "No, no, *no*—"
"Tell me that doesn't say what I think it says." The Heaven's Blade's leader, pushed forward through the cluster of stunned Awakeners.
Her hair whipped around her face as she read the notification once, twice, three times, as if repetition would change the words. "Tell me that bastard didn't just—"
"He soloed it." The Iron Guard leader's voice cut through the rising murmurs like a blade. He waved the notification window away with a savage gesture, his gauntleted fist trembling.
