The grind resumed.
Night fell over the large mountain range in stages, the sky darkening as combat gave way to rhythm once more. One by one, the familiar sound echoed again and again through the bond they shared.
[Ding.]
Bastet reached it first.
Then Calypso.
The two monster ladies were a bit ahead of the Valkyries, but not by much.
By the time Kaiden looked around, all of them stood at the same invisible threshold.
Level 49.
49,000 out of 49,000 XP.
The second bottleneck loomed ahead of them all now.
And, evidenced by the expressions of his girls, a similar situation seemed to be going on with their bottleneck requirements as well.
