Now, Madam crawled out from beneath a collapsed mountainside, covered in dust and grime. She staggered along, barely breathing, while the nano-armor on her body flowed like liquid. The tiny nanomachines were repairing the damaged parts of the armor. But as they flowed, sparks occasionally crackled across them, and some broke away from the cluster and fell to the ground. They flickered a few times, then went still. They looked just like flies killed by insecticide.
The damage to her nano-armor was only physical. The greater wound was to her pride. She was a notorious old devil, the leader of the Serpent Around the World, and a high-level psychic whose power rivaled that of a demon god. Yet she had been caught in a bombardment from orbit, then swatted out of the sky like a fly and sent crashing headfirst into the mountains.
What a pitiful plight! Madam Now thought. But at that moment, she didn't feel all that sad. In fact, she even felt a little like laughing.
She thought of Xia Li, whom she'd held in place with gravity control and slammed straight into the ground. Xia Li had been in much the same situation. The consequences had come around a little too quickly.
So, feeling a little like laughing, she laughed, then hauled her exhausted body into the air and drifted slowly over to a relatively intact mountaintop.
She surveyed her surroundings. The mountains had collapsed in all directions, as if the Creator had built them up piece by piece only to knock them over like blocks. The terrain looked completely different from how it had just three minutes ago.
Well, fortunately, her battle-hardened back and combat skills had allowed her to escape the bombardment of those triaxial warheads. Unfortunately, she'd had to dodge the missiles pursuing