"…We don't stand a chance against that thing."
Fae's voice was grave.
Her eyes were severe.
She spoke the unspoken.
She spoke what all of them know to be the irrefutable truth.
And yet, not even the grave truth could hamper Sir Armstrong's spirit.
"Today, all of you must choose," the Gatekeeper's powerful voice reached them all. "You must choose how you wish to die."
His eyes flared with determination.
"Do you wish to die running away or do you wish to die fighting?"
RUMBLE!!!!!
It didn't matter what choice they made, for the outco was undoubtedly the sa.
Before the unfathomable depths of power that the strange entity that erged from the aircraft displayed, they stood virtually no chance at all.
And yet, it was the final choice that each of them had on what had turned out to be a suicide mission.
They might as well die making the choice to fight rather than to run away.
BADUMP!!!
Almost a hundred Martial Hearts and Minds blazed with power within the depths of their being as they unfurled their collective power. Their Martial Embodints consud their very being and the very canvas of heaven and earth, painting a vivid picture of countless Martial Art and the crystallization of lifetis of effort.
The chanical glowing eyes of the humanoid entity scanned the world as it took the mont to study the countless Martial Embodints that erged from within the depths of the countless Martial Artists around them, almost as if it was curious.
The Martial Masters' eyes brimd with a myriad of emotions.
Fear.
Despair.
Uncertainty.
Reluctance.
And acceptance.
None of them wanted to die.
Certainly not at the hands of an inhuman entity of unfathomable power beyond the likes of anything that they had ever felt in their entire lives. An inhuman entity that ca from god knew where.
The air boiled with raw peril.
The atmosphere grew electric with anticipation.
For a mont, there was silence in the world.
For a mont, nothing moved.
And then, all hell broke loose.
"ATTACK!" the Gatekeeper roared.
"ATTACK!!!" The Martial Masters took his lead as they surged forth.
RUMBLE!!!
Countless attacks converged upon the strange humanoid entity that simply gazed at them impassively even as the Martial Masters charged with all their might, led by the CHA Masters of the Esocline Federation.
And then, the entity smiled.
A chilling smile.
It was filled with pure malice.
A smile that warped its face with creases and crumples.
Even its chanical and cybernetic eyes sohow seed able to convey an unfathomable depth of malevolence.
The Martial Masters froze as they felt terror in the depths of their hearts.
A terror so intense that it buckled their body against their will.
An involuntary response that none of them could even begin to fight back against.
WHOOSH
In the blink of an eye, the humanoid entity spontaneously erged before the CHAs seemingly understand exactly what they were.
CRACK
With a single grasp, it tore the CHA in half, leaving the CHA Martial Master frozen midair where his CHA should have been.
Shivers crawled across his spine as an eerie smile of malice erged on the entity's face.
CLASP
In the blink of an eye, the entity clasped him within its hands even as the CHA Martial Master struggled, screaming with terror.
The Martial Masters watched what happened with helpless horror.
The entity opened its mouth, revealing a cyborg internal anatomy of flesh and machine before—
SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!!!
A flood of blood exploded from his body as the creature consud the upper half in a single bite with its sharp, carnivorous teeth.
What chilled the Martial Masters was not a grisly sight of the ripped human body.
What sent terror running across their body was not the horrifying sight of the CHA Master's blood running down the lips and the chin of the giant humanoid entity. It was the fact that the cybernetic eyes of the humanoid entity conveyed ecstatic pleasure as it carefully feasted on the body of the Martial Master, bit by bit.
The humanoid entity finished its little snack before shifting its attention towards the rest of them.
Its cybernetic eyes dilated the way that a human's would.
Eerie terror sent chills down their bodies as they understood that they were next.
RUMBLE!!!!!
The humanoid entity opened its mouth as the very fabric of space and ti began bending trendously, causing a trendously intense gravitational well to draw them in with unfathomable force.
It sought to consu them in one fell swoop.
WHOOSH!!!
"Ahhhhh!"
"HELP!"
"Rgh…!"
The Martial Masters struggled.
They struggled with all their might as they used every ounce of power they had within the depths of their body. And yet, before the might of a Sage-level entity more powerful than almost any other they had ever beheld in their entire life, they were all but helpless.
"AAhhh—"
"NO! STOP! NO—"
"HELP! HEL—"
The Martial Masters scread in raw terror even as they were slowly consud one by one.
The humanoid entity seed to delight in the symphony of terror to accompany its als.
It watched the Martial Masters struggle frantically even as it consud them one by one, its cybernetic eyes fixed on their very existence even as it consud them.
Their screams filled the night.
It spread for kiloters as they howled with all their Martial power.
It was not a battle.
It was a butchery.
And yet, only one Martial Master among all of them felt unfathomable fury.
The Gatekeeper was normally an extraordinarily calm and composed man.
He hadn't lost his temper a single ti since becoming a Martial Artist.
He was profoundly in control of his emotions and exceedingly composed in even the most extre of circumstances.
He didn't feel a thing during the wars that Kandria waged during its Age of Conquest before the Emperor of Harmony.
He didn't feel a thing even when the Master Realm was discovered and the Reign of the Master Realm had begun, rendering him obsolete.
He didn't feel any resentnt or anger, even when the world left him far behind in the Senior Realm, as the Master and Sage Realms defined the world.
And yet, for the first ti in five hundred years, he felt anger.
Within the depths of his eyes, pure fury blazed as a single whisper escaped him.
"You dare…" he growled. "You dare to consu this body that I have spent half a millennium cultivating?"
His body quaked with power even as a horrifying wrath boiled within it.
His murderous glare fixed itself on the humanoid chanical monster.
"I think not."
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