His eyes reddened as his tears pooled up. A heavy THUMP beat in his chest, as though his heart fell through. He couldn’t help but grasp at his chest, as though to prove it was still there. “You kept running after me, trying to get me to stop and breathe and look and chill. You gave me so many chanc
“You’ve been here three weeks now,” she replied. “You did a number on your system, but you got through it like a champ. You said things are clearer?” “At least brighter,” he replied. “Well it should mostly be outta your system by now. We’ll run a few more checks today or tomorrow, so we can get yo
Miko’s eyes gleamed as she toyed with a partially dismantled armor. It was laid out on a metal workbench, which was littered with parts and plates of armor, as well as all sorts of tools and gadgets. The armor itself didn’t look too complex. It was covered in a number of scales, some larger, some s
“I believe I’ve increased input detection speed by roughly 8 percent,” she said. “This has also increased output scaling up to 75 percent, from 66.6. I have also introduced a redundancy to the overload circuit for extra protection. But that was a happy accident.” Szereth looked at the device in awe
Daylight spilled across Lacroseth City as Taloren’s sun crested over the horizon. Life all over the city began to stir and wake up for their day. A flock of vicious Avicii Raptors took to the skies inside the dome, and circled around in search of prey. As a wing of them flew around, they spotted so
“Damn, well, I’m honored! How’d you even find me in here anyway?” Alevos pointed back behind him with a thumb. “Ah, I asked the guards about you, and they mentioned something along the lines of ‘that madwoman is only ever at the sparring rings’.” “Is that a good thing or a bad thing?” Alevos sim
Alevos laughed heartily in response, and his belly jiggled to match. “Well, you’re still getting two,” he said. “Tell me, it’s not too heavy is it? I tried to rebalance it as best I could, but it's got more tungsten, carbon, and onmitronium in the formula. I tweaked it for absolute toughness, to be
Team Ra’ventrii descended down below the dome via special tubular highways that connected the city’s Upper Dome to its Lower Dome. The truth was, every single dome on the planet was actually only half visible. Half of it floated above the surface, while the other half was constantly submerged. This