The red lightning peeled her body off the ground and reformed her at the Wraithstride's flank in the same heartbeat, Stormblade crackling crimson in her grip, and the second Calamity strike came in at the throat where the dorsal plating ended and the unarmored neck began.
The detonation went off inside the body cavity this time. The Wraithstride's spine separated at the base of its skull, the head rolled across the floor, and the lower body flopped sideways twitching.
[Companion Kill: invading Wraithstride (Level 95). +820 DMP.]
Then the Brute hit the Safe Zone.
Quadruped, stoneflesh hide running in slabs across a torso the size of a delivery truck, four legs the diameter of pillars, no neck and a flat broad skull that came forward like a battering ram. Each stride landed hard enough that Kaiden felt the tremor through the soles of his boots from twenty meters away.
It planted both forelimbs and stomped.
