The final defensive layers had absorbed what remained of the beams before they could reach the beetle itself. Taro's beast remained unharmed behind its fortifications that now looked like a bombarded lunar landscape, cracked and fragmented but still functional in their purpose.
The beautiful thing about sand and living minerals was that they could behave almost like liquids when needed, refilling the spaces rapidly.
Ren considered his options while observing the destroyed defenses beginning to regenerate quickly.
The beetle could maintain this pattern indefinitely if Ren only continued using pure light and that would waste all the hydra's energy. He needed something with more penetration and power, something that would exploit the inherent weaknesses in that type of relatively loose and stratified defense.
