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It was much clearer, yes, but not much calmer. The ferocity of the surrounding hurricane only became more apparent. The Vanguard was still after his head, after all.

But how much longer would their fighting spirit last, he wondered?

He couldn’t yet tell if the feldeath was dead, but if it was, then the Vanguard were about to become desperate. Which would make them temporarily more dangerous. One last assault. Trying to catch him while he was still on the backfoot.

Once that was broken, though, they would be done. Their morale would plummet, and they would scatter like the roaches they were, hoping and praying for Sermung to show up and save them.

Because they would know that nothing less would suffice. Dozer would make them pay sorely for this overextension.

But that was only if Kallmakk was truly dead. Dozer didn’t get the opportunity to check, because Iceheart and the Gargoyle were both bearing down on him at the same time.

Aiming to keep him suppressed at the very least, no doubt. Couldn’t very well let him run loose, now could they?

Ah.

But he’d already entered the Void State.

That was what he called it, anyway. Truthfully, he had no idea if it was the Void’s doing. It just seemed like the most reasonable explanation for this phenomenon that he’d been experiencing for over two hundred years now.

In the beginning, he’d thought it was perhaps a byproduct of his power. That, somehow, his ability to manipulate inertia could also affect his perception of the world writ large.

Of time itself, even.

As if he’d become so immovable that he could even resist the flow of the future. Watch it unfold more slowly. Perceive it more deeply.

But sadly, that explanation didn’t appear to be quite accurate.

‘Wow, nice one!’ came that all-too-familiar voice.

Dozer’s head began turning, though only very slowly. Thankfully, he didn’t actually need to look over in the direction of Morgunov in order to know that the voice belonged to him. ‘Already here, too, are you?’ said Dozer.

‘Oh yeah,’ said Morgunov from afar. ‘All this fighting opened the place up for me days ago. Nice to not be alone anymore, though! Been a while since I got to experience this with you! How nostalgic! We HAVE been through some stuff together, haven’t we? What a couple of cards we are, eh?! Ehehehe!’

‘Do you think Kallmakk is dead?’

‘Mm, probably not. A few days ago, I got the sucker pretty good, too, and he only stayed down for like four minutes.’

Dozer wanted to sigh.