Chapter 167: New Enemy?
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[Proto Elemental defeated. +1 EXP, No core.]
Another came. Then three. Then a torrent, diving at him in a spiral formation like a storm of molten hail. Their movements weren’t random, they flowed with the storm’s rhythm, like lightning guided by instinct.
Kai ducked, rolled, and one by one he stabbed them with his spear into the ground, grounding a surge of static arcing through the nearest cluster.
POP. POP. SIZZLE.
Three burst into shards of ore, their essence fizzling out.
[+3 EXP. No core.]
A fourth grazed his shoulder, searing pain into his exoskeleton as it tried to enter through a joint seam.
"Tch! Tch! persistent little sparks!" Kai growled.
He spun then pulled Proto Elemental out and smashed it into the ground, then crushed it with his heel. Tiny pieces of sizzling blue metal embedded into the glass like nails from a shotgun. His armor hissed and aura surged.
Kai’s Adaptive Armor responded immediately. His plates along his arms and shins thickened, growing faint ripples that glowed. Heat vents slid open along his back carapace, dispersing built up static.