Bounty Hunter Breaker: An Epic Military Sci-Fi Series (6th Mechanized Book 2) by Kyle Anthony

Author:Kyle Anthony [Anthony, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

14 Across the Crag-Dunes

The trio walked for two hours, and although the Wudenan sun had yet to show itself, the temperature had already become uncomfortable. The sand radiated heat like a furnace had been kindled underfoot. Wild gusts stirred powder-like sand. It coated skin and metal. Granules crackled between teeth.

The trio had remained silent for the most part, except for an occasional cough when Jericho would take in a mouthful of powdery dust whipped up by breezes. This would remind him to tighten the shemagh Barten Lul had lovingly wrapped over his head and face.

Soon as the faint glow of the Erdine System’s rising sun began to illuminate the horizon, Barten Lul paused just shy of clearing a dune peak. Eroded, sand blasted rock formed the top, stripped like a bone.

“What is it?” Jericho asked, scanning the ground.

Using her rifle as a pointer, she aimed between the dune they stood on and the next one over. “A sand beast lair,” she said in a quiet tone. The corner of her eyes crinkled with intensity.

The general’s untrained eye couldn’t tell one patch of sand from another, but he deferred to Barten Lul’s desert knowledge. She’d spent her whole life here, dodging those animals. And even though she’d managed to get captured by one, that had only happened because she’d been attempting to rescue her camel—in this dry land he’d trust her instincts over his any day.

She made a new course, circumventing the lair. As she went halfway around, she paused again. Her head cocked to the side, curiosity written across her leathery cheeks.

“I heard it too,” the general said. Quickly he pulled two laser rifles he’d bound together from his shoulders, suspended on straps. He had the strength and dexterity to wield the six-foot long rifles as easily as toy guns.

Barten Lul swiftly unshouldered her rifle. Her finger grazed the trigger. Jericho, seeing this, began to unlatch his shotgun from his back holster.

A howl broke the stillness.

Two dog-like beasts loped from around a low outcropping of jutting rock.

Four feet tall at their shoulders, each was covered in wiry hair with points, like stubby rhinoceros horns. These protruded from various parts of their body. Their faces were like a reptile’s, covered in scales and plates. And they moved with unnatural speed on four powerful legs.

One of the beasts charged past Barten Lul before she could even aim her rifle. As it did, the monster threw its head to the side like a battering ram, knocking her off her feet.

Passing by, it lunged at Jericho, who had yet to draw his shotgun.

Moving with a mechanical swiftness unmatched by humans, the general aimed his rifles. Seeing this as a challenge, the second beast chomped its muzzle, snarling and revealing rows of dagger teeth. Mucus dripped from its foaming mouth. The general fired.

Incredibly, the pyramidal spikes on the beast’s body deflected the bolts even as it roared in pain. A few wisps of wiry hair smoldered as they singed. Shaking off the searing energy, the beast leaped at him.

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