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!

were many sights the common people could have never dreamed of seeing in 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

shadow seemed to swallow

his hands while Milan and Raj looked toward their shields. Then, they looked toward one

only to look and find that at least a dozen of the almost hundred

his mouth to reprimand them. He knew these men well, they were the same teammates he had shared a field with for so many years. One of them was

ice

it snapped in two

and Raj stood as shields before him, their feet digging into the slippery ground as

just as quickly as they tried to form a line

BANG!

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

and 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

though this was all a play orchestrated by the white wolf. With 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

everything from above,

"Close the gates!"

clear by now that Miles had shown enough mercy. Even if his enemies wanted to use this to point out his weaknesses, he

he cared about. As long as the

the Gates. The only ones lagging

watched the Gate slowly close, those too far away felt a bout of despair while those who felt they still had

the most coordinated of men to slip and fall. And, where there was snow weighed down

BANG!

only half the hundred troops that had come managed to make it back.

solid. Even if one stood on the opposite side, it would have been impossible

them. It raised its head haughtily, emitting the