A vast number of portals opened simultaneously in a spectacular display, but their placement was utter chaos.
Some opened dozens of meters in the air, others overlapped walls, and some were even half embedded in the ground.
Arcs of psionics leaped between them, and the space within the portals reflected countless figures like shattered mirrors.
Thralls poured out of the portals.
A fully armored Orc roared as he plummeted from the air. His spiked armor offered no protection; instead, it skewered him like a pincushion.
An underdweller's body twisted, his arm and chest displaced by spatial turbulence, leaving him kicking helplessly on the ground.
A Duergar squeezed out of a portal overlapping a wall, half his body embedded in the rock. Flesh fused with inorganic matter, killing him instantly.
More slaves poured out without end, suffering the same gruesome fates. Blood spread across the plaza, severed limbs littered the ground, and screams rose one after another.
Corpses piled into mountains. Everyone present froze.
Zephros spun around, his psionically amplified voice booming like thunder.
"Klauthsura! You defective wretch, how dare you..."
The Mind Flayer beside Renato extended a hand, holding a crystal orb engraved with psionic symbols. The orb rotated slowly, the runes on its surface flickering between light and dark.
"Zephros." Klauthsura's voice was as calm as ever. Apart from when communicating with Renato, the Mind Flayer seemed to always use that same tone. "Time has brought you no wisdom, only greater arrogance. I laid interference arrays throughout New Rolling Stone City long ago, waiting to activate them when the Elder Brain began its mass deployment..."
Before those words had finished, a gigantic fireball larger than a person tore through the air, hurtling toward the pair.
The psionic fireball looked like condensed lava, its surface streaming with blazing magma. The