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

massive shadow seemed to swallow

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

from their back, only to look and find that at least a dozen of the almost hundred troops

teammates he had shared a field with for so many

front, the ice guards

with his halberd, only to find it snapped

their feet digging into the slippery ground as they tried to give Joel

as they tried to form a line of defense, they were

BANG!

spare a glance toward Milan and the others as it looked toward the wall, a toothy, sinister, snarling grin lining its

the bones in their body had been broken. They struggled to stand, looking toward the ice guards and white wolf with a hint of fear in

such leaping ability, couldn't it have claimed the Fort for itself long ago…? Why did it wait until now…?

everything from

"Close the gates!"

enough mercy. Even if his enemies wanted to use this to point out his

long as the optics were in his favor, that was

only ones lagging behind were the running

far away felt a bout of despair while those who felt they still

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

BANG!

had come managed to make it back. As

Gates were too think and too solid. Even if one stood on the

this time, the white wolf watched without even attempting to stop them. It raised its head haughtily, emitting the air of