Chapter 264 An Unseen Cold 3 (1/2)

Chapter 264 An Unseen Cold 3

The surprise, like any other distraction in the heat of a fight, fled from Aldrich Or, to be more precise, he rolled it up, crushed it, and tossed it away into the saht into

His ine, ran a dozen thoughts at once

Oncedown to a crawl

The ice bolt that targeted the Grave Ward had followed a linear trajectory That meant it lead directly to whoever had fired it He traced the travel path of the bolt back to a spot behind a four wheeler painted a dull blue powdered with dust and dirt

With a fluid series of trained motions, Aldrich held his bolter pistol in front of hies of his vision strain and darken, his psyche auto except the target

Absolute focus

Aldrich pulled the trigger

The model of the bolter was called the Red Wail, and it was obvious why Parallel lines of red running across the pistol's extended barrel supercharged, and a high pitched rumble echoed out - the wail of a weaponbang unleashed itself from the pistol as a bolter round, more metal spike than bullet, shot out in a shower of sparks and red crackles

The depleted uraniuh the car as if it was a two bit cardboard ht behind it The harsh crack of h the air accoe sparks

A chaotically flickering silhouette crashed backwards into the dirt with a dull thud, the spike-like round jutting out visibly to mark Aldrich's success

Direct hit

Aldrich got out of the zone, his vision briefly blurring as he relaxed his mind The black around his vision disappeared

"You have hihty weapon that is!"

"This isn't over yet," said Aldrich He put his fingers to his earpiece "Dia with either a Frame or a bot"

Aldrich could tell as much fro ive you a visual marker to follow Prioritize capture Now it's time to earn your pay," said Aldrich

"I'll need a bonus at this rate," said Dia a kick at the downed ene respectably Diamondback's foot smashed into sun dried earth and split it apart in a crater But that was probably the last tiet had evaded with stiff, jerky e Sparks continued to sputter out froave way to more and more of its hidden appearance

The probley was that it was finicky, prone to e Soon, it would deactivate, revealing the culprit fully

"Shall I assist him?" said Valera

"No, stay with me," said Aldrich "There may be more like him nearby"

He raised his palm in the air and su it out on its own, he kept it floating beside him, where he and Valera could both protect it

The instant Aldrich said this, he whirled around as his [Grave Ward] revealed a cloaked rabbing at and stopping twoout for his throat

Aldrich, with the [Grave Ward], got a good look at his attacker

It was a machine, no doubt about it, a hurey and pale blue ether At the robot's chestplate was a shi+ning blue circle of light that likely indicated a power source of some sort

The robot stared at Aldrich with a thin blue line of light on its faceplate A cold, mechanical stare Curved horns of metal jutted out from the sides of the machine's head, likely for aesthetic purposes

To Aldrich's surprise, he could not just overpower theenough to th, no -

The ears and the groaning of strainingfrom its arms Its stealth function disappeared, replaced now by a white fog that poured out of vents located in various in its body

Inexorably, driven by the endless deter, the bot inched closer to Aldrich's throat with its open hands

Aldrich's ar, froze over like they had been dunked into liquid nitrogen Had he not been undead with natural cold resistance, his hands would have turned brittle and shattered already

"Die, golem!" Valera rushed to Aldrich's side and punched the robot in the face, burying its head down into the dirt in an ale intent, she loomed over the bot She slaain, each blow ripping apart hly subdued, the light in its eye line fading into black