"Damn, it can reflect attacks too!"
The bright-white jet slammed into the star-blue shield, its roar drowning out the players' cries.
[Cloud Pomelo] tensed all ten fingers as the shield, originally flat, was pressed into an arc. Overflowing flames swept across both sides, scorching the piles of corpses along the way red-hot. Several players who failed to retreat in time vanished along with their equipment amid the fire!
Brute Force charged straight into the heat wave.
The shield blocked the flames rushing at him. Keeping close beneath the jet, he sprinted toward the Armor Beast's exposed left shoulder. They had worked so hard to tear off that bone armor earlier—there was no way they could let it grow back over the wound!
[Molten Breathing Technique] continued operating, searing psionic energy flowing through his entire body. The materials fused into his flesh endured the impact, while his body, tempered for months, sent power layer by layer into both arms.
He stepped onto a broken piece of bone armor and drove down his right fist!
The Armor Beast suddenly flung its forelimb.
Before Brute Force could retract his fist, a thick bone spike struck his waist. He instinctively raised his left arm across his chest, and his entire body crashed into overturned armor plates as blood burst from his mouth.
The bone guard fused into his left arm cracked.
The shattered material tore open his flesh. Psionic energy that had been flowing through the circuit leaked from the wound, scorching his fingers until they twitched.
"Damn, that almost tore my arm off!"
Brute Force immediately cut off the psionic energy in his left arm, using Flesh Domination to force the fragments out of the circuit. He grabbed the edge of an armor plate and hung from it.
His left hand could no