At the eight-minute mark he changed it.
He stepped back three metres, put the sword point down on the rock again — which Team Zero read as a pause, wrongly — and put his left hand flat on the floor.
The rock came apart in six places.
They came up out of the cut stone the way Fossor came up out of dirt, except they did not come out of it and go anywhere. Each one was a thick grey-black limb about as far through as a man's waist, two and a half to three metres tall, rooted in the floor where it had broken through, and they came up all over the chamber.
Two behind Finn. One eleven metres behind Ronan. One out on the left, directly across the line Maeve had walked in on. One near the base of the shelf below Cillian.
And one four metres from James.
`[SUMMONED TENDRIL]`
`[LEVEL: 60]`
`[HP: 4,000 / 4,000]`
It hit him before he finished reading the panel — a flat sideways sweep that he got Durendal into and which still moved him two metres and left his forearm ringing.
