Gauntlet Wars (Star Force Gauntlet Wars Book 1) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2022-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Paul punched through a drone midflight, immediately detonating a Jumat blast once his fist was inside and breaking it in half as he raced away from the now disabled mountain weapon complex. While he was inside for more than two hours, a group of Caretakers had joined the Vargemma as they moved in and tried to pin him down. The warlord had got to the key areas and trashed them, then cut his own way out near the top rather than use the blockaded entrances, but a few hundred hovering units had been waiting for him as he came out.

He’d had to use his Technofail to get through, then had been racing to get away from them as more units came up on him as he ran in no particular direction. He simply needed to evade and escape, but there were three more coming in at angles while the cluster was still pursuing him several miles back. His sensors were also picking up more within a range of 120 miles, all coming his way. Apparently the Vargemma hadn’t wanted them near their combat zone, for an errant attack could hit one of them and trigger their defensive programming and have them attack the Vargemma, but now with them called in Paul needed to get away so he could recharge.

Most of his psionic tissues were depleted or nearly so, and his ambrosia levels in his bloodstream were steady, but his Senzu nodules were almost empty and his Senzeen counterparts that gradually produced new ambrosia couldn’t do anything without food. And even if they had it, they were designed to very slowly recharge in situations where ambrosia wasn’t available over the course of weeks. So if Paul didn’t stop fighting long enough to dig some more out of his pack, he’d run out and his metabolism would shift back to normal ranges.

He could still fight then, but slower. He could also try getting stuff out of his pack on the fly, but he didn’t want to attempt either right now. He needed to break from combat, and at the moment he was having a hard time finding some place to get to. They must have been converging on this area ever since his first target, but holding back until the Vargemma called them in. He was about 23 miles away from the mountain now, and there were enough enemy units in the air ahead for him to easily see the convergence patterns.

“Nuts,” he said, seeing his shields slowly recharging after taking multiple hits, his armor down to 13% in one spot on his right shoulder, and his ambrosia low. Going against the Caretakers in that state on the ground was easy, but in the sky there was no cover against their long range shots, and some of the bigger ones had homing shots that he would have to absorb or destroy prior to impact. Two of them had been waiting for him outside the mountain, and even as he disabled them coming out, they got three shots off at his feet as he fled and his Technofail field got out of range.

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