Villain Ch 1770. Pendulum
Bella didn't stop running as she leapt over the downed automaton and casually dropped a fireball into its open chest cavity. The detonation was quick, contained, and left nothing but twitching gears and the faint smell of burning cloth.
Two more came from the side hall, swinging jagged arm-blades.
Alice hit the first with a Shadow Bind, the inky tendrils pulling it back against the wall while
Jane's undead tore into it, wrenching its head clean off in a spray of sparks.
The second lunged for Shea, but the siren vaulted back, feathers flashing as she loosed a volley of blade-feathers into its joints. It froze mid-lunge, joints locking, before collapsing with a hollow clang.
"Three down," Allen called, his voice calm even as he sliced the last one in his path cleanly in half. "Two left."
Zoe didn't even answer—she was already on them, tentacles slamming the first into the floor so hard its torso crumpled inward like a crushed can.
