The rusted remains of the shattered chain axe fell into the muddy puddles at Arthur's feet.
Korgath stared at the man in the dark coat.
His cybernetic brain was struggling to process the math. A normal human didn't just catch a revving motor-blade with his bare hands.
"Kill him!" Korgath shrieked, taking another hurried step backward. "Shoot him down!"
The dozens of pirate thugs lining the street snapped out of their shock. They raised their crude plasma rifles and rusty blasters, aiming directly at Arthur.
"PEW! PEW! BOOM!"
A chaotic barrage of plasma fire lit up the alleyway.
Arthur didn't use reality manipulation. He didn't use the Absolute Order laws of the universe. His 1,000,000x multiplier was offline, locked away behind the cosmic audit.
He was just a man.
But he was a man who had absorbed the absolute, perfected combat experience of a million lifetimes.
Arthur moved.
