Black Sand Baron: The Ripple System #2 by Kirrin Kyle & Books Portal

Author:Kirrin, Kyle & Books, Portal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Portal Books
Published: 2021-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Damn. If this thing was going to ignore Threat, Roly wasn’t going to be very effective at all.

But on the flip side, it meant I could burn the target as fast as I wanted. We just had to break that shield first.

I scoped the shield out, hoping that the impact with the wall had diminished it slightly.

And it had, but only by 5%.

The ground beneath my feet wobbled as if it had become unstable, so I dashed toward the center of the arena. I glanced back and noticed that a section of the floor had swung down and opened like a trap door to the seemingly endless pit below.

“Lars, you’ve got its attention!” I said. “Get behind one of the electrified pillars and put it between you and the rhino!”

Lars froze for a moment, and for a split second I worried that he was about to get trucked like a deer in the headlights.

Thankfully he snapped out of it, but the hesitation meant he was too far from a pillar to get behind it in time.

“Run right, then dive left!” I said, already running in his direction. “It can’t turn very fast!”

Lars nodded, took two steps to his right, then dove to his left.

He managed to avoid the worst of the charge as the beast blew by him, but the rhino clipped one of his ankles and sent Lars helicoptering onto the grating.

I dashed over to him and helped him up as the rhino stampeded away in a smooth arc.

Then the ground buckled beneath us. I grabbed Lars’ elbow and Shadedrifted the two of us to safety as another section of the floor swung away and dropped out.

“What do we do?” Lars said.

I pushed him between his shoulder blades. “We split up for now!”

“Shield still at 95%,” Frank said. “There are twenty total panels in the floor, meaning 10% of the arena floor has already fallen away.”

I blew out a puff of air. This wasn’t working—the arena was shrinking much too fast.

A colossal amount of weight settled on my shoulders as Smokehorn turned his attention to me.

“You need a plan,” Frank said as I bolted for the far side of the arena, where that first section had collapsed.

“Got one,” I said. “Gonna lead it into one of those holes!”

I made it all the way to the dark edge where the floor had fallen away with Smokehorn close behind, then dove to my left and landed on my side.

I watched from the ground as Smokehorn rumbled by me.

“Get up!” Frank said, and the urgency of his tone made me jump back to my feet instantly.

Smokehorn leaped the gap in the floor, then banked a hard turn in my direction, his horn pumping smoke with every step.

I put on a burst of speed and managed to get some distance between the mob and me, but once again the ground shuddered and dropped out right behind me, and Smokehorn leaped the new hole in the floor without losing a step.

“85% of the floor remains,” Frank said.

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