f of the pod and hauled his massive frame out into the h
working together to drag a semi-cons
w the mud covering her bespoke medical
smearing dirt across her cheeks. "It'
his voice dripping with syrupy comfort. "Don't cry,
lean handkerchief to wipe the mud from Talia's s
watching a terribly written soap opera. He walked over to where Leo lay i
pped into Leo's nervous system. Leo gasped, popping aw
ival, the rustling in the bushes explode
rmored rhinoceros crossed with a bull, its hide plated in thick, sl
Iron-Hor
rcing shriek, divin
broad chest swelling as his u
entirely into a ten-foot-tall grizzly beast, letting
s massive cranial horn and charg
paws and swung his massive right claw sid
ac
massive body slamming into an ironwood trunk b
ving. He wiped a smear of beast blood from his
is blood-spattered chest. "That's real combat. Usel
ficient, he mused internally. You shattered its skull-ruining the core's purity-and y
t, rhythmic tremors traveling through the root systems
es shining with admiration for Kade befor
even know why Command assigned hi
as too busy calculating the exact
t's skull to extract the faintly glowing Class-3 crystal core. He tossed
ran, his eyes glinti
g the tip of his bloody blade at Talia's mu
fficer. "Go find a water source and wash Talia's skirt
with indignation. "That's an insult
. He released a heavy wave of third-ran
mpress, waiting for Kieran to d
h anger. Instead, he looked at the squad leader with the delighted fascination
ran asked quietly, his t
third-rank aura, looking at him as if he were a particularly amusing insect. But the p
ubordination gives me the right to execute or abandon you. Do
north. Oh, that is perfect. If you officially abandon me, I have zero legal ob
a bright, razor-thin s
ed smoothly, crossing his arms with effortless grac
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