Chapter 93: Dominic (5)
Dominic tumbled across the ground, shoved aside by A.
It was like being hit head-on by a runaway train—an overwhelming shock.
If he hadn’t wrapped himself in shadows to block the Corrosion Bomb, the force of that “just a shove” would’ve shattered every bone in his body.
Even though she’d only pushed him.
As he was flung further from the bomb’s blast radius, time—slowed to a crawl by tension—began to flow normally again.
The drawn-out sounds stretching endlessly in his ears snapped back into their original sharp, piercing bursts, and his AR interface began to flood his vision with a torrent of warnings:
<WARNING: Corrosion Bomb Detonation Confirmed.>
<WARNING: Corrosion Bomb Detonation Confirmed.>
<WARNING: Corrosion Bomb Detonation Confirmed.>
Red warning panels filled his field of vision.
Clear proof that, somewhere in Babel—no, right here—a Corrosion Bomb had been detonated.
Dominic barely managed to lift himself, turning to look at where Beren had been standing—and where he had just been standing a moment earlier.