Neil drove the Inferno blade through the skull at the seam point where the Gold class scale coverage met in a tighter gap than the lower tiers had offered, the blade forcing through with the combined force of the third phase's physical enhancement and the Inferno energy cutting its own path through the resistance, and discharged everything he had at that moment directly into the skull cavity.
The Gold class Snake's body dropped.
Three kills.
All into inventory.
Neil stood in the wreckage of the root cage and checked himself.
The venom accumulation from the Gold class encounter was higher than anything the Silver class had produced, the mental component having added a residue that was not affecting his function but was present in a way that the Silver class venom had not been.
He ran the full clearance cycle, Aquamorph addressing the physical accumulation and the mental residue in sequence, the process thorough and methodical.
It took longer than the Silver class clearance had.
