For a brief, agonizing second, the entire Hollow Cinder Mine compound seemed to hold its breath at the sheer audacity of my taunt
Garek didn't say another word either.
His hardened eyes locked onto my relaxed, seated form with a look of pure, unadulterated execution.
Then, with a guttural roar, Garek launched the car-sized boulder straight up into the air.
The massive boulder arced high at me like a mortar shell, while Garek instantly dropped his center of gravity before kicking off the compacted dirt with a force explosive enough to shatter the ground beneath him as he dashed directly at me under the encroaching shadow of the falling rock.
[He is… slower than Arlath. But still, if that Tier 4 meat-tank actually lands a single punch on me, I'm gonna pop like a blood balloon…] I calculated, keeping my physical posture perfectly relaxed despite the blaring alarms going off in my head.
[Alright… you got this.]
