Matt stopped channeling his Concept into himself and kicked at the disappearing bloodstains. “I was in a good mood, but these f***s ruined it with their ambush on us.”
He looked at the central pillar. He had washed it with his strongest attack, but it wasn’t even charred at the edges. Neither were the walls, but they were made out of that inviolate material the interior of the planet was made out of, so it wasn’t as surprising. The pillars in the safe rooms just looked like normal crystal.
Liz was in an equally foul mood and nodded. “I vote we drop the house and take a break with the shields up before we go to the next layer. I need to recover from my adventure, and with the shields we have, no one should be able to surprise us.”
Matt nodded back. He had been dreaming of a bathtub and w
