Marcus was holding Kevin and Mick down with Keryn behind the half shattered gss cage with a green roside while he heard the instru of the master. He raised his head slightly to che Gloria - she was holding Tae Kuo down behind a gss cage with a glowing silver roside. At this moment, a group of two armed men were heading their way with their ons ready to fire.
Without much time to think or aim, Marcus picked a piece of shattered gss from the ground and flung it at the two men in bck. He was never a really good shot with throwing ons, this time it was no different - the piece of gss shard missed the target. But luckily, it was close enough to force the two men to back off.
Gloria noticed the especially forceful gss shard, as it shot through the air with high speed a a small crater on the wall when it crashed. This allowed her to see the two enemies dangerously close to her. And with two swift swings, she sunk two gss shards near her into the chest and waist of the two men.
Keryn roared, swing-kig a man in b his chest and sending him into a gss cage behind. Another man in bck rushed over and tried to point his gun at her, she swung her left arm and flung a rge gss shard his way. Before this man could open fire, he was stru the chest and dropped on his back.
Right when the fight started, it was as if everyone present had some kind of tacit agreement to not target or damage the rocks in gss cages. The men in bck, even in their panid frenzy, tried their best to avoid actually firing upon any of the rocks. But as the fight raged on, this caution was gradually left behind, causing more rocks stored in the room to crack, splinter and break.
“Master!” After g in the chests of two men in bd crag another’s skull, Maroticed that the master was forced into a meditative pose behind a gss cage - a move only expinable by his being in trouble. And the dark smoke arising from his robe and the grim aura f around him would expin why. Without much time to think, Marcus picked up a gss shard and a sharp splinter from an e gem from the ground and uhem at the group of three men going at the master while firing suppressive shots around the ground and the gss cage.
The gss shard crushed the right shoulder of the man closest to Marcus, while the splinter sshed through the shoulder and chest armor of the other two like a tempered and hardened bde. Blood gushed and shot into the air, as the splinter barely slowed and shht at a light blue rock at the far end of the room. The gss cage proteg the rock was decimated during the fight.
Right after a light, even pleasant “ding”, exploded a deafening ring. Almost everyoopped what they were doing just to cover their ears. Nearly all of the remaining gss cages exploded from the noise.
Rainbows, actual rainbows of different shapes - from dome shapes, tle, to round and even to multi-point star shapes began maing in the space, even though there were no water droplets in the air.
“Out! Out, out! Get outta here!” Marcus yelled as he rushed to cover Kevin and Mick from the flying gss and gem debris.
An armed man in bck screamed and fell against Kevin and Mick’s backs. A sliver of broken gem was embedded in his throat. His face was fshing in silvery blue and green, the light was sht and pierg evehick face shield on his helmet could not hide it. At the same time, smoke was seeping through his neck wound and the cracks in the helmet.
Marcus had no time to cover for this man, so he just caught this man in bck using his right foot and kicked him across the room. Simir slivers and gss shards were ing his way as well, most of them blocked his Qi hardened defenses. Yet a few of them still left thin cuts and scratches on his body, with energy with differeions lingering on his skin.
There was no other obvious way out of the room, so every member of the team could only try their best to scooch towards the door through which they came in.
“The way is down!” Master Liaoran’s voice rocked the entire open space, rings of golden light spread through the rest of the space. The mihe entire floor shook, a huge k of the floor caved in, crumbled ao the level below.
The room below was empty, with only an array spanning across the entire round floor. The lihat made up the array were made with thick transparent tubes with glowing mini-tubes inside. Falling along with the master and a few unfortunate armed mehree giant gems with their gss cages.
Before they fell, the light iubes was flowing like a well-paced and well-rehearsed light show. The gems, the gss cages, and the people disrupted the flow, causing the tubes to begin fshing much more rapidly like they were arms.
