Chapter 593: Born Beneath Higher Laws
The System caught up a half breath later.
[Star-Iron Devouring Centipede — Level 94]
[Rank: Ethereal Initiate]
[Affinity: Metal, Earth]
[Warning: Existence is not wholly contained within observed body]
Leon read the last line and had no time to think about it, because the head came down.
"Scatter!" he shouted, and the ground where they had been standing ceased to be ground.
Mandibles tore into the basin and threw it upward. Leon folded Loriel forty paces east before the debris arrived, then bent the largest fragments away from Ira, who was already searching the creature's underside for a seam. Whatever the trial had cost them, none of the four retreated.
Seraphine went first, taking the air in three strides with stormlight running down her sword. A blow that would have opened a fortress gate in Velaria entered an overlapping joint by only a third of its length before stopping.
