The six-foot jaws dropped like the falling blades of an iron drop-gate.
Lu Chen didn’t try to block the downward driving force of an eighty-foot underground monster with brute leverage.
That was the mistake of academy martial artists who treated beasts like men with swords.
Instead, his chest engines shifted.
The black glass plating wrapping his liver and kidneys engaged, releasing a burst of moving torque through his left hip.
Lu Chen sidestepped four paces to the right.
KRAAA-BOOM!
The Alpha’s twin jaws hammered into the trench floor where Lu Chen had stood half a second earlier.
