Blood hit the stone before Kaiden did.
He landed in a skid while the Blood Monarch gauntlet was already busy reforming the greatsword he'd lost two seconds ago when a Stoneclad Matriarch had backhanded him into a cliff face. The blade solidified mid-swing, and he buried it into the nearest body without looking.
[You've slain Hollowed Ridgecrawler (Level 66).]
[You've gained 58,100 XP.]
[You've gained 7 DMP.]
Didn't even feel it go in.
The mountain pass was a slaughterhouse.
Ridgecrawlers poured from fissures in the rock face, skeletal quadrupeds with translucent skin stretched over blackite bone, fast and numerous and stupid enough to charge directly into the kill zone.
