Chapter 53: Impressive.
Finally making it out of the truck, Mark kept a low posture and hid behind its armored frame. He peeked in the direction of the fighting and saw Lara evading the attacks of some sort of lizard, this one much bigger than those that attacked them the other day.
’It’s a Fallen...’
Seeing the crooked red Halo above the creature’s head, Mark understood that they were up against something different from the Stone Rhinos.
The monster looked like an oversized Komodo dragon with the head of a crocodile. Jagged teeth lined the sides of its maw and dark gray scales jutted out of its spine like broken glass, continuing all the way to the tip of its tail.
Despite its size, the creature was moving quite fast. It followed after Lara trying to crush her under its feet, and when the girl successfully evaded a few times it swung its tail like a whip leaving her nowhere to go.
Lara blocked the strike with ease using her Force Field then jumped back to widen the distance between them. She was clearly drawing the monster away from the truck so he wouldn’t get caught in the fighting, but her doing so only reminded Mark how useless he was.
’That said, she’s really good with the spear...’
Mark couldn’t help but be amazed by Lara’s performance. Her movements were sharp and beautiful, not to mention deadly. She wasn’t just dodging the monster’s attacks; each time she evaded a strike, her spear would flash and a cut would appear somewhere on the massive lizard.
He remembered seeing Spear Arts listed as one of her abilities, and the (Master) beside it told him she was as good as one could get with the weapon. Nevertheless, the monster’s hide was too thick and it didn’t seem affected at all. Lara didn’t look too concerned, however. Mark had no doubt that she would finish off that thing soon enough so he turned his attention to something else.