Chapter 106: Battle for Atlanta [1]
The Mycoglyph-powered truck screeched to a halt, its roar drowned by the cacophony of war.
BZZZ!
It was chaos on the battlefield.
Not just Clayton. As soon as the Mycoglyph-powered military truck screeched to a halt, its inhabitants jumped out of it, dividing into two teams that charged in different directions.
Whereas Clayton, Torren, and Veyra let loose immediately, unleashing the full power of their Aspects on any hostile force in front of them, the trio of Kaelin, Soren, and Lorn did something else.
Instead of attacking, they blended into the chaos, slipping through.
They snuck towards Clayton’s Rootsite.
The Rootsite, Clayton’s fungal fortress of pulsing vines and Mycoglyph-etched spires stood battered, its core flickering under the Earthcore Nexus’s oppressive hum.
Korrath’s biomechanical army comprising Initiate Ember drones with thorned metal frames, and Luminous Seed Emberclaw Sentinels with razor vines, aided by the mercenaries wielding Pyreblade daggers swarmed, a Nexusborn Ravager’s molten vines tearing at the defenses.
Clayton’s Shedskin cloaked his humanoid Verdant Lord aura as tattered rags, Thornshade Dagger humming at his hip, but this time the camouflage was not as effective.
This was because he charged directly into the heart of the battlefield.
His Architect Aspect burned, Hive-Sight showing his Verdant Lord form. The thorned colossus suffered from numerous lacerations and injuries across its bark, it was barely holding within the Rootsite.