The bone-shaking charge of the Chimera Juggernaut shook the heavy concrete foundations of the forward command stronghold like an earthquake.
Forty-two and a half tons of armored steel and maddened drake mana surged across the courtyard flat stone slabs at thirty miles per hour, its massive high-pressure leg struts hammering into the ground with the force of a heavy-duty pile-driver.
THUD-CRASH! THUD-CRASH! THUD-CRASH!
Shattered fragments of concrete and twisted iron rods were hurled fifty feet into the air as the machine wiped out everything in its path.
“Scatter! Clear the gates!” Captain Varley screamed from the breach, wildly waving the twenty commoner infantrymen back into the drainage under-road drains outside. “It’s coming right for the main approach!”
The Juggernaut didn’t bother maneuvering through the ruined gateway. With its massive three-ton wedge-shaped moving ramming prow, the machine slammed directly into the eight-foot-thick heavy concrete wall flanking the entrance.
KABOOOOOOOM!
The concrete wall exploded inward in a huge shower of crushed stone, gray dust, and snapped reinforcement rods. The Juggernaut burst through the breach into the open mudflats of no-man’s-land without losing a fraction of its forward driving force. It roared down the central ravine that led straight toward Dugout Seven.
