038 I AM NOT A HERO
Dan's mind strained, grasping for the feeling he'd had before when he used the Camouflage skill, but the feeling soon slipped away.
The fortress shuddered as a low thunder rolled in the distance.
Over the horizon, thousands of alien hounds charged, dark shapes boiling across the desert like a living tide. They slamd into the fortress walls, claws raking and climbing the shimring force fields.
Dan clenched his fists. "I shouldn't have co up here for fresh air."
Then the air shifted.
A new shadow appeared in front of him—massive, and hunched, its form slipping through the fortress's barriers as if they weren't even there.
The beast's silhouette lood, deliberate and predatory.
This wasn't a danger of flesh and blood. It was ethereal.
It was a living shadow, shaped like a four-legged hound, its semi-transparent body crawling with writhing scarabs instead of flesh. Its pale blue eyes burned like soul-flas. The most terrifying thing: it could phase straight through walls.
"Damn it…I'm faced with a real Annunakin," Dan whispered.
The beast lunged at him, but his Camouflage didn't trigger. He was frozen in place, his hand tightened around his dagger.
"Can I even kill this thing with a blade?"
Before the beast reached him, a voice cut through the tension.
"Move aside, boy!"
A soldier charged in with a energy harpoon crackling with electricity. The weapon fired into the hound's chest, and the creature shrieked with rage.
"Die, you blue bloody hound!" the soldier roared.
The strike wounded the shadow beast and pinned him to the ground, but it was not enough.
The creature tore free from the wounded limb without pain or hesitation. With a furious snarl, it pounced on the soldier. Its claws raked, and jaws clamped on the soldier's neck.
Instantly his bone snapped.
The man collapsed, dead, his eyes staring blanky at Dan.
"Shit, buddy, are you dead?" Dan cried. There was no answer or any chance of survival.
But it wasn't ti to lant the loss. Survival was at stake.
The hound turned its soul fire eyes back on him.
"Co on go bugger sobody else
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