Jayden remained motionless in the treeline, his breath slow and controlled as he observed the battle unfolding before him. The Chthonix was unlike anything he'd ever seen... its movements were deliberate, its attacks calculated, as if the very earth itself were an extension of its will.
The first hunter, a wiry man... with a now slightly cracked armor, stood up and darted forward, his plasma whip hissing through the air like a striking serpent. The crackling energy lashed across the Chthonix's flank, searing a blackened gash into its earthen hide. The beast roared, its massive head swinging toward its attacker, but the hunter was already rolling away, his movements fluid.
