A wave of dark energy erupted from the cracked entrance, throwing three coalition fighters backward hard enough to knock them unconscious.
"It's destabilizing faster!" Fira shouted, having pushed forward with the strike team despite the chaos. "The corrupted breach is accelerating!"
Kane fought through another wave of Concord resistance, urgency overriding exhaustion as he pushed toward the structure's entrance. "Wren, can you stop this. Slow it down somehow."
"I don't know," Wren gasped, still connected to the Threnody's fragmented communication despite the battle raging around her. "It's telling me the corruption's already too advanced for simple intervention. Something needs to actively counter what the Concord's ritual is doing."
"Counter it how," Talyn said, cutting down an attack
