The distance between the charging forty-two-ton Chimera Juggernaut and Titus had closed to less than twenty paces.
Inside the layered quartz cockpit, Baron Korgan Rask saw the giant black tortoise standing motionless in the center of the ravine. A deranged grin stretched across Rask’s gaunt, gray face, his eyes bulging with manic triumph.
“You’re using a turtle to stop an iron dreadnought?” Rask screamed through the loudspeakers, slamming the backup nitrous-boost valve into the intake pipe hub. “I’ll crush that shell into black gravel!”
The three enslaved drake cores inside the Juggernaut shrieked with painful intensity. High-pressure high-pressure fluid surged through the four-ton leg pistons at six thousand pounds of pressure. The machine surged forward in a final, terrifying burst of speed, speeding up to forty-five miles per hour. Over forty tons of high-pulling steel, silver-steel plate, and bone-shaking striking force focused entirely onto the three-ton wedge of its forged steel ramming prow.
In the center of the bottleneck, Titus didn’t brace for impact like a frightened beast.
He became the earth.
WUMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Titus activated the supreme manifestation of his awakened bloodline: [Obsidian Bastion Vault: Tectonic Sovereign Lock].
