Dimensional Descent

BANG! BANG!

The grenade erupted, blasting bits and pieces of dirt, hot air and shrapnel in every direction.

A massive cloud of white shot up from the core of the explosion. But, before anyone could even sigh a breath of relief, an ice guard shot out from the dust cloud, gliding across ice of its own creation like a silent assassin.

'Shit.'

Joel brandished his halberd, the trigger of his rifle echoing a hollow click.

He tossed the useless gun to the side, gathering his courage as his hands gripped his weapon's polearm.

Milan pulled a heavy shield from his back, slamming it hard against the iced grounds and standing shoulder to shoulder to Raj.

Raj moved to bite off another grenade's pin, only to see the remaining 11 ice guards shoot out from the cloud of smoke. What was the point? The grenades were useless anyway…

"ROOOOOOARRR!!"

Another roar shook the battlefield.

The Variant Invalid stalked forward. By this point, the engineers had only just reached the gate once again. As for the troops who could only move on foot, they were still over 50 meters away. Unfortunately, in these conditions, many of them were having trouble finding stable ground to stand on.

The white wolf crouched, its powerful limbs shattering the ice beneath its feet.

BANG!

the past that they could experience now. Watching as a five meter tall and almost ten meter long wolf cross hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye… was definitely one of

shadow seemed to

halberd in his hands while Milan and Raj looked toward their

that moment, they heard a rain of bullets coming from their back, only to look and find that at least a dozen of the almost hundred troops they had led the vanguard with hadn't

a field with for so many years. One of them was even a rookie of barely 15 years old.

the ice guards

halberd, only to find it snapped in two before he could

shields before him, their feet digging into

to form a line

BANG!

ground, causing it to quake. It didn't even spare a glance toward Milan and the others as

Raj coughed violently, feeling as though all the bones in their body had been broken. They struggled to stand, looking toward the ice guards and white

such strength, with such leaping ability, couldn't it have claimed the Fort for itself long ago…? Why did it wait until now…? They simply didn't have anyone capable of stopping

watched everything from above, his

"Close the gates!"

clear by now that Miles had shown enough mercy. Even

cared about. As long as the optics were in his favor, that was

ones lagging behind were the running soldiers who had

who felt they

even the most coordinated of men to slip and fall. And, where there

BANG!

to make it back. As

too think and too solid. Even if one stood on the opposite side, it would have been impossible to hear

attempting to stop them. It raised its head haughtily, emitting the air