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!

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

massive shadow seemed

Raj looked toward their shields. Then, they looked toward one another,

dozen of the almost hundred troops they had led the vanguard with hadn't retreated and were now shooting toward

shared a field with for so many years. One of them was even a rookie of barely 15 years old. However, he didn't even

the front, the ice

to find it snapped in two before

before him, their feet digging into the slippery ground as they tried to give Joel some

form a line of

BANG!

to quake. It didn't even spare a glance

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 white wolf

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

from above,

"Close the gates!"

Miles had shown enough mercy. Even if his enemies wanted to use

As long as the optics were in his

ones lagging behind were

a bout of despair while those who felt they still had a chance

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

BANG!

shut. By now, only half the hundred troops that had come managed to make it back. As

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

them. It raised its