They had even watched him tell a rift monster to kill itself, and the beast turned its head so hard and sharply that its spine snapped. It twitched and shuddered for a moment, then fell still as its brain stopped all function at the suggestion.
He never let them hear his voice, so they could only guess at what he was saying to the guards, but from the nods and lack of tension, Matt believed he was using the same excuse they usually did.
The story usually went something like, Kurt was a passing Tier 35 who witnessed the escape and decided to step in.
As the bag they had shoved all the spatial rings into was lifted from Liz’s unresisting grasp, Matt mentally nodded while putting on an outwardly angry expression. Luna had been furious when they celebrated their first successful mission dur
