Chapter 70
Adam triple-fused his barriers and fired the projectile at the Tower Crawler floating in the middle of the glass chamber.
The projectile zipped through the air, but swerved around the giant eye at the last moment before flying down in to the ramp they’d followed up, piercing it and then continuing through the Tower’s wall.
On the opposite side of the chamber, Gladwyn was shaking James, trying to get him to return to consciousness after his weapon skill had bled him dry of Mana.
Adam resummoned his barriers just as the black cosmos beyond the glass walls pulsed with a purple-pink light again.
Then the floating eye shot out six tendrils, one of which struck the small spherical chamber holding the Dimensional Splinter.
It’s using it for energy!
Adam immediately ordered his barriers to attack the tendril while shaping them into sawblades and inducing a spin so that they could cut through anything, but they passed right through.
“I can’t hit them!” Adam yelled to Gladwyn. “I have no idea what’s coming, but stay on guard!”
James was finally coming to, but Adam knew from experience that the hangover following Mana Exhaustion was brutal. He’d triggered it so many times while training on Interim Island that he had built up a slight resistance to it, but he could tell James hadn’t been quite as diligent.