Book 6. Chapter 59: Beginning of the end
He really didn’t want to have to bring his prized doorway into any of this mess.
But he also wouldn’t survive a direct hit from her cannons with only his standard defenses. Damn.
The charged plate emitted a high pitched whine, rising in power. Only a half second in real time, a small eternity in the overclock as he contemplated any other way to survive or dodge in time.
No possible ways out. Very unfortunate.
He twisted around, presenting his back to the laser and recalled the other two plates under his belly like a protective hen.
To’Sefit’s cannon opened fire - and slammed directly into his golden mite blast door. The energy raged around him, trying to eat and destroy the mite fragment and finding no purchase anywhere. Instead it was split apart against it, splashing on the metal and ground around him. Melting everything including rock. The light was so bright even his eyes couldn’t auto-adjust to still see through it correctly, despite the laser ending a moment earlier.
Superheated air burned around him while he crouched down like a turtle. His overclock ended, unable to keep his frame cooled with this kind of intensity around him. Even his halo had been half melted, still spinning wildly around above his head, until it finally broke down and clattered against the melted rock, bouncing away.
A moment passed and the world went back to normal. He stood back up, properly equipping his shield and looked over it, observing.
For once, the hyper-weasel wasn’t moving, or talking. Simply staring down. “Three gods above, what happened to your face? Are you making some kind of statement with all… well, that?”