Sovereign of the Ashes

Thanks to Sein’s timely warning and the fact that they were still outside the passageway, the group narrowly avoided disaster.

A barrage of energy beams activated within the passageway.

Each carried enough power to threaten even a Rank Five or Six creature, yet when they reached HALL-E, they simply rebounded off its body.

It was as though they were deliberately avoiding it.

At that moment, HALL-E lay prone on the ground.

The crisis had erupted far too suddenly. To protect PAL, HALL-E had thrown itself forward without hesitation, shielding the smaller being beneath its own body.

HALL-E’s robotic frame was vastly larger than PAL’s.

The abrupt turn of events had clearly startled PAL as well.

It was frozen in place at first, momentarily at a loss.

Once HALL-E dove in to shield it, however, PAL snapped back to its senses and scrambled in a few quick leaps into one of the gaps in HALL-E’s frame.

Because the energy beams deliberately avoided HALL-E, no one was harmed. The overwhelming barrage only scared PAL out of its wits.

The bond between HALL-E and PAL had been forged over countless years.