The underground passage wasn't particularly narrow, but it certainly wasn't wide.
Most of the floor was piled with tools, generators, and cables, while the severed limbs and wreckage of robots and humans lay scattered across it.
A newly excavated tunnel was clearly narrower than a normal passage, with several Load-Bearing Pillars supporting it.
Fifty centimeters in diameter, made of Special Reinforced Concrete, and capable of bearing over 300 tons.
Whoosh!
To dodge a deadly sheet of flying metal, a figure rapidly retreated-until he had nowhere left to go!
Terror showed in his Cyber-Eye:
In his field of vision, a massive fist was advancing-
Advancing! Like a rocket!
Each time the Powered Armor drove off with a step, the ground sank like plasticine. The jet turbines in its elbows and calves worked in sync, their exhaust flames as bright as the sun in his low-light-enhanced vision!
Even the fist glowed red-hot, like a rocket casing heated by friction with the air.
It was a rocket, plain and simple!
The warm air was torn apart with a thunderous roar, drawing closer and closer-
Boom!
A thunderous strike!
The red-hot Scorching Knuckles slammed into the sturdy Load-Bearing Pillar.
In that instant, Lier calculated that the machine had released about 70,000 joules of kinetic energy. The impact occurred in an extremely short time, penetrating about 0.1 meters; converted into ton-force-
That was equivalent to 71.3 tons of force striking the pillar directly.
Full-body Cyberware modifications had given the victim unparalleled mobility and range of motion. His reflexes had kept him from being hit directly.
But the terror of the Fists missing him by inches had struck straight at his Mind Stone.
More than 23 tons of force had been unleashed beside his ear. The rushing air and noise filled his entire world in an