The first shape that stepped into view was the same monstrous ant Rohan had come face to face with before.
Its ember-like eyes blazed with an intense fury. The jagged black-red plating coating its body looked even darker now, like it had rolled through soot and magma on the way back. Its mandibles clicked once, making some sort of communication, and that single sound echoed through the widened chamber like the bell tolls of death.
That alone was enough to make every Awakened present feel their throats tighten into knots.
But then the second shape appeared…
It was somehow worse.
It stepped in right behind the first, and unlike the boss they'd already seen before, this one had a broader body and a much more imposing frame. It stood slightly taller, with a thicker neck and a far more heavily armoured thorax. Its forelimbs were longer too, the serrated edges on them gleaming wickedly under the daylight filtering into the crevice.
The pressure Rohan felt was overwhelming.
