Kain was fast.
But apparently, so was the disembodied half of an ancient, glitching orb monster with a secondary spatial attribute.
The moment it split, one half remained to tangle with Aegis. The other—smaller, lighter, faster—raced toward Kain with disturbing accuracy. And it was fast.
Really fast.
Kain dodged the first flicker-lunge, pivoting to the side with a half-roll, half-stumble that kicked up dust. He ducked under a blur of gold-veined claw and twisted between two metallic vines sent out by the fusion containing the Shellvine Sprite and Tortoise-Tiger-Rabbit Hybrid (and the Obsidian Beetle and Clay Golem), after he'd accidentally blundered into the narrow chaotic space where Queen's Vespids and the fused creature were still locked in a brutal skirmish. The ground was shredded, stingers flew past his head, and the air smelled like burnt moss and blood.
