"Shit, shit, shit!" Sebastian cursed, his boots slipping slightly on his own blood.
He dropped flat onto his stomach. The colossal block of iron sailed mere inches over his back. The wind pressure from the swing was so intense it physically lifted him an inch off the glass before dropping him back down.
"WHERE IS YOUR MAGIC NOW, ANOMALY?!" Goliath mocked, his heavy, grinding laughter echoing over the plateau. "WHERE ARE YOUR BROKEN RULES?! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A RAT SCURRYING IN THE DIRT!"
Sebastian pushed himself up into a low crouch, panting heavily. The air was stifling, thick with the suffocating heat of the giant's radioactive armor.
The Architects thought that without his admin-tier hacks, without the 10,000x Nexus Glitch, he was helpless. They had looked at his digital file and assumed he was just a clever programmer who hid behind cheat codes.
They forgot Phase 1.
