Elysia dodged a rifle blast to the face and tackled an official to the ground.
She tore away his mask and watched with satisfaction as the man gasped for breath, his hands clawing at his exposed skin.
She barely had a second to recover before another official swung at her with a baton.
She ducked, driving her knee into his stomach before wrenching the weapon from his grasp and smashing it against his skull. He crumpled to the forest floor, unmoving.
She stepped back, chest heaving as she took in the battlefield.
Everything was chaos.
The trees lashed out, whipping through the air, striking down officials. Vines slithered like living things, wrapping around soldiers and yanking them off their feet. The miners fought with everything they had—battered, bleeding, but relentless.
It was working.
It was actually working.
But then a guttural, monstrous roar shook the air, and Elysia's stomach twisted.
Kreel was alive again.