Aelin was throwing monsters at us.

The brown woman had both hands on the sphere, and everywhere that she looked, another monster appeared. I scooped up Ren as we reached them.

"This is fun!" Aelin cackled as a twenty-foot-long snake big enough to swallow me whole landed in between us and the Bandits. I didn't have to follow the screams to know what was happening.

"I thought this would only be level one monsters!" I looked at Ella.

"She found a way to make an event!" The green woman no longer looked scared. Instead, she was bouncing with excitement. "The Dungeon counts it as violating the level difference and is scaling everything up to the level of whoever is closest to what she throws out.

My heart sped up to chase the chill that ran to my toes. That Behare had been Tier FIve.

We needed to leave.

"She's even set the queue to only be one, so as soon as they take a floor monster out, it summons an elite at the highest level of the party!" Ella clapped. "This is SO COOL!"

Seeing a forty-year-old woman act like an excited four-year-old was very disturbing. But that didn't lower how dangerous it was around us.

"We need to go!" I looked at the three demi-humans that had somehow survived, then turned to my companions. "Let's go!"

Aelin didn't budge. It was like she couldn't hear me. Her brown eyes shone like beacons of destruction as she threw monsters at the bandits. A smirk grew on her face as the enemies were crushed.

I moved in front of her and held Ren with one arm so I could shake the shorter woman. "AELIN! THAT'S ENOUGH! WE'VE GOT TO GO!"

It was like I was talking to a statue.

"GO!" I nodded at Jenne. "I've got her!"

The golden Caster didn't want to leave, but she was the one with the coin. Without her, the others couldn't get through the gate. She hurried after the others.

Kara came over and grabbed Aelin's shoulder. "I'll carry her."

The blonde glared at the older woman, and a Giant Slime fell on top of her.

I took a step back as the Giant Slime froze, then shattered around the former Scarlet. Kara was breathing hard, and there was murder in her red eyes.

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I shoved Ren into Oz's arms. "Go with Jenne! Get them out of here!" I turned to Kara and blocked her path. "Make sure they get to the gate!" I had to grab her arms as she advanced on the younger woman. I locked eyes with her. "I'LL get Aelin out with the return stones if we get cut off."

Kara was growling, but she didn't push me out of the way. Instead, she pushed off my arms as she backed up. She shot the brown woman a glare, then hurried after Oz and Jenne.

"Aelin." I moved into the shorter woman's line of sight. I looked down at my hand. Usually, I'd seen someone get slapped to snap them out of being hyper-focused. While I had no problem hitting Aelin, we had sparred and playfully punched each other quite a few times in the last three months, I couldn't bring myself to hit her that hard when I hadn't tried everything. Though what I was about to do was arguably worse.

"Aelin." I tried to sound as flippant as I could. "If you don't get a hold of yourself and come with me, then I'm going to leave you here." I shrugged for emphasis. "I'll have to let Pixie console Justia."

I hadn't expected the Rock Golem that crashed into me. And I bounced off the road.

"You wouldn't dare." Aelin turned and looked at me.

I wiped a line of black blood off my mouth, then rolled out of the way of the fist that was as thick as my leg.

"Aelin…" I felt something grinding as I tried to move my left arm. It wasn't moving well.

"Atlas!" The brown woman blinked, and her eyes got wide as she looked at the Golem. Her mind finally realizing what she'd done. "Sorry! I can't unsummon them!"

"It's okay!" My mana was recovering, but had only made it back up to about halfway. This was going to deplete it as I tried a new variant that I'd read about.

"AIR BARRAGE!"

The modified <Air Shot> fired a volley of once at a single target. Each <Air Shot> cost two mana, and the dozen that made up the barrage made that twenty-four. Considering that I had a max mana pool of sixty-four, it was a variant of the spell that I couldn't use often and hadn't tried it out yet because it was something reserved for a second-year topic.

The rain of blasts tore through the six-foot-tall Golem, evaporating it into smoke and leaving behind a brown crystal.

My head was swimming as Aelin ran over to me. She put down the core and threw her arms around my neck.

"I'm sorry! I was just so focused on summoning monsters that I didn't realize…" Her eyes widened as she registered what I'd said earlier.

She punched me in the shoulder.

The dislocated one.

"Don't ever say that." She glared at me.

"OW!" I rubbed where she hit me. "It was that or punching you and I thought..."

"THEN PUNCH ME!" Aelin scowled. "But not in the face. I don't trust magic to make me this cute again."

We both laughed until I heard the crunch behind me. I turned around to see an Earth Golem that was ten feet tall towering over us.

"Um, Aelin?" I started backing away from it.

"That's not one of mine!" She went to reach for the core only for the monster to reach it first.

It shattered under its fist.

I yanked Aelin back with my good arm as wisps began rising from the smashed crystals. Wisps that looked like miniature monsters. The entire Dungeon began to shake as the sky bent.

I swallowed. "That's not good."

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