Saturday, December 13, 2014

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Hector was getting accustomed to running in full plate armor. He glimpsed a nearby corridor and considered fleeing through it, but the narrower quarters struck him as more of a death sentence than anything. He proceeded straight ahead, bounding over a pile of rocks that used to be part of the high ceiling and trying to reach Asad.

Frozen mercury shot up around Hector, caging him in completely, but Asad was close enough now to punch through with glass-coated fists. They kept running together. Hector decided to leave a few iron walls in their wake, while Asad was busy keeping Ismael away.

The first wall was simple enough--it spanned the entire length of the foyer, but it wasn’t nearly tall enough, and Darktide just splashed right over it. The second wall, at least, was a large enough obstacle that Darktide chose to break through rather than lose time scaling it. The third was the same, not enough to buy even a moment of extra time.

The fourth, however, was not a wall at all. Instead, Hector materialized a sphere where he expected Darktide to be, but still made it massive enough to look like a wall for the brief glimpse Melchor would get of it after busting through the third. So when his liquid body slammed into it, no doubt expecting to smash it down, the sphere began rolling away instead, creating a moment of stumbling confusion as Melchor ended up rolling with it. Hector had even added a few dents in its surface, so the giant ball ended up veering off to the left and distracting Melchor for a moment more.

It was a stupid trick, Hector knew, but extra time was extra time, regardless of how he achieved it. And now he had the opportunity to work on an old scheme: a soul-empowered maze. It had hidden his presence against Karkash. Maybe it could do so against Melchor.

He set to work, creating a four-way intersection with himself and Asad at the center, then expanding each branch in three different directions. Then again. And again. All while he and Asad kept pressing through the tunnels together.

Melchor wasn’t having it, though. The same kind of explosion that had subdued Xuan shook the chamber once again. Hector’s tunnels shattered under the impact and went flying, sending him and Asad along with them. White dust filled the air just as before, but Dimas wasn’t around to clear it away this time.

18 comments:

  1. "but the narrower quarters struck him as more of a death sentence [than] anything"

    "the third was the same, not enough [to] buy even a moment of extra time"

    By the way, I really like your writing, it's a great story!

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  2. Awesome Story! Thanks for keeping up on the writing this month!

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  3. Got 'em. Thank you.

    Glad you're enjoying. :)

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  4. "The first iron"
    I think putting wall there would make it sound better.

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  5. Yep, that was supposed to say wall. Fixed now, thank you.

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  6. "So when [his] liquid body slammed into it"

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  7. The white dust is Xuan, correct?

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  8. No, it's the leftovers of Melchor's explosion.

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  9. Bleh... Isn't it annoying when sheer power invalidates a clever strategy? ;P

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  10. Melchor: lvl 100
    Hector: lvl 10

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  11. Bah I leave it a week and you write tins! But I STILL only get to whet my appetite....this is madenning! :D I think I need to go read volume 1&2 again in my kindle then just sit n wait till volume three comes out....cos the suspense is bloody killing me lol.

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  12. Darn unstoppable metal abomination and his mercury fulminate.

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  13. Awesome fight scene.

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  14. That ball trick was sheer genius.

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  15. pretty much but hector is has come along way is holding up very well considering he got beat up even more in the past

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  16. Rainlords/Asad: Lvl 100
    Hector: Lvl 35 with the given item: exp share helmet

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