Captives

Haziel stomped her other foot.

It opened up just like the first one and spread those metal spheres into the lava lake, creating more of those Lava humanoids.

Now, they are evenly matched with the attackers. The same goes for the people on the island. If they duked it out, it would be a three on three battles. But for some reason, Quinzz hesitated. He didn't fight them directly and instead looked at the Lava humanoids that were emerging, attacking, getting hit and collapsing like a miniature demonstration of a life cycle.

And he noticed something the others didn't.

He wasn't able to confirm it immediately, but the moment he did, his confident face turned to panic.

"Everyone, leave. Immediately. Retreat."

He crushed a token first and took out a spatial transference token. His teammates did the same and crushed them.