[The Royal Plaza]
"Now let's even the odds!"
Damien sprinted toward the towering leg of the Royal Guardian Titan.
The Bone Dragon didn't wait. Seeing a threat to its dominance, the colossal undead construct roared, a sound of twisting metal and wailing souls.
It abandoned the cowering civilians and lunged at the stationary mech.
A skeletal claw the size of a carriage slashed through the air, aiming to decapitate the Titan before it could wake up.
"It's too fast!" Hephaestus screamed over the external speakers. "The hydraulics are cold! I can't move the arm!"
"Shadow Step!"
Damien didn't run up the leg. He vanished in a blur of black mist and reappeared fifty feet in the air, landing perfectly on the open chest hatch of the Titan.
He instantly dropped inside.
CLANG-HISS.
The heavy Mithril hatch sealed shut, cutting off the screams of the city.
The cockpit was plunged into silence, illuminated only by the frantic red blinking of emergency runes.
