The metal shutter of the storage unit didn't just buckle, it screamed, the rusted steel tearing like wet paper as a hand the size of a compact car punched through.
"Back!" Rin shouted, grabbing Joy and hauling her away from the door just as the giant ripped the entire wall down.
Dust billowed in a choking cloud, revealing the creature in the moonlight, standing twenty feet tall with limbs that stretched and snapped back like rubber bands, its skin flickering between a goblin texture and raw wireframe static.
"It's lagging," Nyx said, sliding over a crate, "look at its movement."
The giant took a step, but the animation skipped, one second it was at the door and the next it was ten feet inside, its fist already swinging.
Rin didn't have time to think, he pulsed his energy, the gray static flaring around his arms, and threw up a barrier not to block the hit but to deflect it.
