Ability: Improved Chained Fury
Your combat prowess allows you to chain attacks together. For the next 5 seconds, each attack deals an additional 20% damage for every successful attack before it.
With her damage boosted through the roof, Thorne set in, swinging again and again at Erick, bashing his health away with each hit. The other wardens were arriving now, though. They stacked up behind the lead power warden, each jostling and pushing to get into the action. The doorway was jammed, though. Between Erick trying to get in, Titus trying to keep him out, and Thorne and Kaiden swinging away every chance they got, there just wasn’t any more room. Didn’t stop the blast wardens, though.
Ability: Improved Warden’s Bolt
You fire two bolts of lightning instead of one. Discharge bolts of lightning that jump to multiple targets within range of the impact target. Initial range 50 feet, jump range 10 feet. Deals +150% base damage, reducing by half with each successive jump.
Zelda’s attack flew over Kaiden’s head, and from the size of it, he could tell Zelda had fired it from Sniper Mode. The Improved Warden’s Bolt arced into the crowd, where it went crazy, zapping from one opponent to the next and chewing away at their health. Not a moment later, though, the same attack was fired back at Zelda. It detonated and Kaiden found himself swimming in electricity as the ability tore into him and the others. His health dropped to ninety-two percent.
I wasn’t built for this, Kaiden thought, growling as more attacks poured in. Improved Burst Arrows and Improved Scatter Shots from the blast wardens, Hammer Tosses from the power wardens – he blocked what he could, his shield wavering under the assault, and lashed out at Erick whenever there was an opening. On the upside, all the attacks meant Kaiden finally had charge. On the downside, he couldn’t ignore his health bar, flashing near constantly now and dropping rapidly.
Seventy percent. Sixty-eight. I’m not a shielder. And even less a power warden…
“We need a plan,” Zelda shouted between blasts of her hammer-gun. “A way out. Something!”
“Let ‘em come,” Titus growled, teeth gritted against the assault on his shield. He was fighting with a focus Kaiden hadn’t seen before. Had a look in his eye like each of the wardens out there had personally insulted him and he’d come for payback. There was an opening between Erick’s attacks and Titus fired off a Shield Slam, stunning his opponent. He followed with Shield of Rage and a burst of energy rushed from his shield, dealing damage to Erick and the wardens right behind him.
The stun wore off and Erick came back swinging hard, but Titus was ready.
Ability: Reflection
Reflects 20% of damage absorbed by the warden’s shield back against the attacker for 10 seconds.
“Let the bastards come,” Titus growled again.
“These are just the wardens that were closest to us,” Thorne said, then paused to land a blow on Erick. “But there are certainly higher-level wardens here. Their wing is just further away. You can bet they’re on their w—"
“Gah!” Erick was in the red now, but he wasn’t giving up. He shouted a battle cry as he reared back his hammer.
Ability: Gravity Sledge
He swung the attack into Titus’ shield and Kaiden prepared for the big man to launch backwards and the rest of the wardens to come rushing in. Erick’s hammer exploded with energy as it connected, but Titus absorbed the attack. He gritted his teeth and held his ground.
“Intransigence. Bad luck for you,” Titus said with a snarl, then struck back with a flurry of hammer strikes to Erick’s head and shoulders.
Power Warden Erick Day02 assisted kill - 4,800 EXP gained!
Erick went down, and for the briefest of moments before Last Rites triggered, there was a gap. Kaiden’s view filled with names as his visor scanned the enemies in the hallway.
Manzer
Warden Sergeant
Class: Shield Warden
Faction: Warden Corps
Level: 47
Tomson
Warden Sergeant
Class: Power Warden
Faction: Warden Corps
Level: 47
QuertyBoy01
Warden Captain
Class: Blast Warden
Faction: Warden Corps
Level: 49
Too many names to read. Still more filled his view.
Frankie04, Enhanced Warden
Panzerpants, Power Warden
Werner06, Blast Warden
HaroldMay, Shield Warden
Even in that brief moment, another group of wardens arrived and still more names filled his view. There was even a Werner account, removing any doubt that this was where his alternate accounts were being levelled for him.
We can’t fight this. There’s no way we can take them all.
“Traitor scum!” A power warden named Tomson came in swinging. Titus blocked the first flurry of attacks, then activated Shield Link with its target set to Zelda.
“Appreciated,” she shouted from behind, then let loose a renewed barrage of attacks.
Two Improved Kinetic Grenades flew in from the hallway and Kaiden ducked as they detonated, blasting damage through the room. His health flashed wildly at the hit. Titus absorbed the damage, his large health pool built for the task, and even Thorne seemed mostly okay. They were each floating at around seventy percent health. But Kaiden didn’t have stats meant for tanking damage like them. Neither did Zelda. Even a couple of paces removed from the fighting her health was taking a beating. Down to sixty-two percent.
But it didn’t matter. None of it did, he thought as Zelda flung a grenade, bouncing it off of the wall so it angled around the corner and exploded out of sight among the wardens.
We can’t win this fight, Kaiden thought. It’s purely a numbers game. All we’re doing right now is delaying. And I’m no use just bludgeoning away at whoever steps into the doorway. That’s not what my class is built for.
Hold up. He paused at that, stopping his attack mid-strike as a thought exploded in his mind.
“I’m not built for this sort of fight,” he said through comms.
“We need you anyway!” Thorne shouted back. “Keep fighting!”
“I will,” Kaiden said
