The Revenant: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Hunter's Moon Book 2) by Walt Robillard

Author:Walt Robillard [Robillard, Walt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

The hum of servomotors straining against motion under a heavy load worked in time with the tapping of falling debris settling to the floor. Ennix shifted his weight, maximizing his hold on a downed support beam. “Are you injured, sir?”

Singh walked around Kilmartin and Phoenix to the downed mech. “Armor and shields took most of it.”

“You have shields?” Kilmartin acted jealous.

“Mr. Ennix does, too. It's the only reason we're not dead.” The wraith moved one of the girders blocking the Kangal's shoulders. With the obstruction gone, Ennix stood to his full height, shrugging off the rest of the wreckage from the ceiling.

“Hey!” Kilmartin yelped.

Phoenix pulled the mask from his face. It took the brunt of the damage from the molten stone, although there were streaking burns across the side of his face. Despite their failure he appeared serene. He had the look of a bird of prey surveying landscape with eyes that took in everything so it might have a broader choice of meal.

Two of the soldiers he’d brought with him approached, hunched over in supplication to their master. He nodded to them for their sincerity. There was appreciation in the simple gesture he gave them. Singh admired such loyalty from superior to subordinate. He remembered being the junior to a master. That fear of approaching to report a failure. The cold draining from the face through the chest into the pit of the stomach felt like drowning in a cold lake.

Phoenix raised a hand. His sword across the room hissed to life. The blade skittered as he parted the veil across the Second Sight. It flew through the room, the rushing air cooling the blade back to an inert state. He took hold, swinging it to the face of the ones who reported to him.

“A single failure is a sword. It takes a cut to change the perspective of the novice to a swordsman. If that swordsman becomes great, the scar is a badge of honor. If he doesn't remember the scar, the swordsman will continue to get cut until he takes the handle. This was my failure to own. I must die to my old self and be born anew in the wake of new knowledge. I charge you with holding me accountable for it. You will be the spark to raise the Phoenix from the ashes. Will you help me with the eternal work?”

The subordinates bowed in answer to their master's question.

Phoenix sheathed the sword.“I know my next steps, mercenary. What are yours?”

“Devil and the Phoenix fly together.”

A hologram of a floating skull faced robot appeared next to the wraith. “We've made contact. They're heading to Outpost-2.”

“Thank you, Ingram. Do we have a crater for the phoenix?”

“Excuse me?” Venger asked.

The wraith held a hand to forestall the wrath of the Steel Devil beside him. “You're not the only phoenix.”

Ingram continued his briefing. “Yes, sir. It seems that the crater is at Outpost-1. Smart to have it there. Based on what I am seeing, emergence is in an hour from the fall point.

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