The Menocht Loop: A Necromancer Time Loop Epic by Lorne Ryburn & caerulex

Author:Lorne Ryburn & caerulex [Ryburn, Lorne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timeless Wind Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

19

Interception

Like Bluebird, I decide to leave out the window to avoid alerting anyone to my absence—I can’t rule out someone at the base feeding information to those controlling the explosives. While I’m not as fast as Bluebird—the little guy is at least twice as fast due to his small size and weight—I get to the hovergloss in under a minute.

Now, how to handle this delicately? I ponder, realizing that I’m not sure how to evacuate the hovergloss. From my vantage point one hundred feet away, I perceive six guards, two ambassadors, and an armored hovergloss. I give Bluebird a look, its violet soul gem eyes staring emotionlessly back. Not going to find any help there.

I have a feeling that if I do this poorly, I’m going to find myself quickly waking up on the dinghy. Explosives are no joke: Last time, I was taken out before I knew what was happening. Unfortunately, I don’t have very long to think of a new plan. I’m loath to take Bluebird out of companion mode, but I think in this circumstance aegis mode might be a better strategy.

Bluebird, the defensive aegis mode…can you go into that right now?

“Switching modes will take fifteen seconds and require a twenty-second charging period. Commence?”

Do it. The defensive aegis is supposedly able to use up to one hundred percent of my energy to create a shield; it might keep me safe if one of the explosives goes off. I’m not sure how much energy is required to defend myself fully, nor do I have an exact metric by which to quantify my ability to draw Death energy. While decemancy doesn’t naturally provide the best defense against sudden burst attacks, being able to funnel my energy into a shield like the glosSword aegis should offset that weakness.

Feeling slightly less vulnerable, I decide to go forward with the first plan that comes to mind: ripping the hovergloss’s metal chassis with a few whirring blades of bone and extracting the people out the front of the hull. I have a few pieces of bone lining the inside of my officer’s uniform, providing me with all the ammunition I need.

I send the bones out without delay, their slender forms whipping through the air like bullets. I begin to rotate them like spinning tops as they approach the hovergloss, allowing their empowered edges to cut through the hull like knives through butter. Before the hovergloss occupants realize the hull has been breached, I seize hold of their bodies and launch them out of the hovergloss.

When they realize what’s happening, they begin to panic, muscles rebelling futilely against my control. The hovergloss continues unimpeded while I drag the contingent back to my location in the air until I use my bone shards to derail the car and hold it in place.

Soon, the party is close enough to me that I can send out the glosSword aegis around all of us.

I guess we’re as safe as we’re going to be.

“I have to apologize for the unfortunate circumstances of our introduction,” I begin, addressing their unnaturally still forms.

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