Zen stared into the barrel of the charging cannon and held his breath as the lethal energy reached its peak.
But he didn't try to block or run backward.
Channeling the tiny sliver of S-Rank 'Shadow' mana he had stolen from Nyx directly into his calves, Zen exploded to the side a fraction of a millisecond before the cannon fired.
A blinding beam of yellow Void energy and purple Omni mana erased the space where his head had just been, instantly vaporizing the server rack behind him into molten slag.
The residual heat singed the edges of his jacket, but Zen was already moving.
"System," Zen commanded, his mind racing at hyper-speed. "The hex-shield is predictive. It shifts its mass to intercept kinetic trajectories. How do I bypass it?"\
[Analysis: Shield utilizes Spymaster-Class Omni algorithms. It calculates velocity and angle to reinforce impact zones in 0.002 seconds.]
