@bulwarkdefender
The most annoying part of this whole thing with the beacons and monster swarms wasn’t actually the monsters themselves. Those, Cloud could handle, and the majority of them without too much of an issue. There were some exceptions, here and there, but most weren’t too dangerous to him. Nor was it trying to defend large sections of the city around each remaining beacon, or trying to rescue people who were outside of them.
No, the thing that was the most annoying was when bits of architecture abruptly popped out of the landscape as if they’d been there all along. Not that they were complete, most of the time. In fact, as often as not, they weren’t even attached to anything.
Even more annoying than having to abruptly turn a sprint into a jump over a fence, or accidentally carving through a random ceiling instead of some flying monster, was having a brick wall pick the exact right instant to catch you under the chin. In the middle of a fight.
The good part about it, Cloud reflected as he tried to shake off the unexpected brick uppercut, was that the wall was also currently saving him from being roasted by the monster he had been fighting. He could see the flames flickering a couple of feet overhead as they splashed over the other side of the wall, and the heat almost made him cough.
