The wind roared in my ears, a high-pitched scream that drowned out everything until the moment of impact.
I hit the nexus not with a splash, but with a sickening thud. It felt like landing in cold, wet clay that refused to give way. My boots sank into the pulsing, bioluminescent matter, and the impact sent a tremor through the entire mountain. The sword didn't just pierce the surface; it drank from it. As the blade bit into the nexus, it turned incandescent, turning the dim cavern into a blinding strobe of white agony.
Skreeeeee!
The sound wasn't coming from the spiders. It was coming from the ground itself. The entire web convulsed, throwing me off balance.
"Ivy!" Elaris’s voice came from high above, filtered through the thick, suffocating air of the pit.
I scrambled to my feet, the
