>>5285838"I'll keep the vanguard myself and draw their attention to me." you <span class="mu-i">think</span> to the glowing champion, emerald aura glowing around your suit like a second skin. "Once I have their attention, you and your people can attack to kill them. Trap them between myself and your people's attacks, and they won't last long."
"I agree. It is a good plan.” the Rak'kari's champion tells you telepathically, raising its right claw in what you take to be a sort of salute. “Good hunting, land-dweller."
"Good hunting." you reply, mirroring his raised claw salute with your sword before turning back towards the approaching sea monsters. You then take another deep breath of the suit's odd-tasting air, then blast off towards the dozen approaching Mindslayers. And despite your ears still ringing, you move without hesitation. If you can power through today, you'll never have to endure their psychic attacks ever again.
“HRRAAAA!” you roar, or at least think you do since you can't hear anything as you charge into striking range of the closest monster. It opens its mouth wide, preparing to hit you with it's attack, but you're quicker. Before it can scream, you swing your heavy hammer <span class="mu-i">into</span> the beast's mouth. The hammer's head slams into the back of it's mouth, and unleashes it's concussive blast once more. The beast's head vanishes into red mist, the shock waves again slamming into your Energy Body. Which absorbs the impact for the breathing apparatus, thankfully, else this mission would come to an end rather quick. The other beasts you can see roar out, and once more you're hit with their psychic assault.
But you barely feel it, charging through the screech to the next-closest and charge into the beast's mouth to stab your blade up into it's head. Then with a roar twist, positioning the blade above your shoulder as you bend forward, cutting it's head in half from the middle. Blood rapidly spreads from the wound, covering you in blood as you swim out of it's mouth towards the next one. Which also falls to your concussive hammer smash before the Rak'kari close in and begin shooting the rest down. You notice after killing another two that they focus all their firepower on one at a time, the hundreds of energy orb-like projectiles cutting each one down in seconds. And since you can't sense their attacks, you can only assume they're some sort of magical energy? Which is good to know, since you won't be able to sense such energy and evade if they fire too close to you.
“This is going too easily.” you think to yourself. And then, almost as you have the thought, you sense something else, something unfamiliar approaching. No, a LOT of something unfamiliar approaching.
-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 175 paused-
