The silence lasted another second before it broke.
"What do we do?" Reinette asked.
"Gray, if the boss breaks through—" Darya started.
"—We'll be fighting a King Realm entity inside a closed dungeon," Ysolde finished, her voice flat.
"That's not an even fight, and more like a god damn funeral!"
"So what's the plan?" Sola looked at him directly.
Gray was quiet for a moment, his eyes still locked on the corridor.
Then he turned around.
"We move now. Before the breakthrough completes." His gaze swept across the group. "A serpent mid-breakthrough is at its most vulnerable. Its attention is entirely inward. It can't afford to split focus between the ascension and a direct threat."
"A sneak attack," Cassandra said.
"Yes."
"And the beasts?" Wren asked. "They all just gathered in the same place. Every single monster from the first two sections is now sitting between us and the boss room."
"I know."
"That's... a lot of bodies," Thessaly said carefully.
"I know," Gray said again.
