Embracing Violence

In the blink of an eye, thousands of Players burst into the room from all directions. Some burst in through the stairs, others came in through the elevator, while many more teleported in or came in through other, even more unexpected ways, such as the floor, the sky or the vents.

Before he could fully process what had just transpired, Jake found himself surrounded by more than three thousand Lost Divinities Players, a good tenth of whom exuded a life force comparable to or greater than his own at the beginning of the Ordeal. Within this group, there were several dozen enemies with an aura close to or on par with that of Belakor and Nucnar, whom he had just faced.