The massive titanium blast doors of Mercy Spire shuddered violently as Nox drove his void-diamond katana straight through the reinforced lock housing.
Dark spatial energy tore through the hydraulic pistons, slicing through four feet of hardened alloy with a terrifying screech of shearing steel.
Kendra stepped forward and slammed her iron shield against the severed seam, throwing all of her physical might into the breach.
"Titan's Surge, activate!" Kendra roared, her golden warrior aura bursting through the cracks in the gate.
With a thunderous crash that echoed across the snowy courtyard, the outer gates were torn from their tracks and collapsed into the snowdrifts.
Inside the vast, freezing courtyard stood one hundred medical defense constructs in disciplined phalanxes under flashing crimson alarm beacons.
Each construct stood eight feet tall, clad in white ceramic armor plates and wielding crackling necrotic defibrillator lances.
