Amy and Jake's squads, composed of Players, emerged unscathed, yet they couldn't shake off their overwhelming shock. They had mostly gauged the lifeforce and Lumyst cultivation of the war beasts correctly, but the explosive charging speed under such gravity was beyond their wildest expectations.
In fact, one of Amy's lower-ranked Players, a Rank 11 Aerelian named Zerei, was blindsided, crushed, and rolled over by a pair of rampaging Mumak-chariots before he could even react. He was barely hanging onto life.
"I… didn't expect to get hammered like that," the frail Aerelian grimaced, coughing up blood between short, ragged breaths.
His survival was a miracle, owed to his bloodline which, despite his slight frame, bestowed upon him a resilient skeleton capable of withstanding sudden accelerations when he manipulated air for propulsion. Unfortunately, his specialization in auxiliary wind magics like mirages and sound magic had left him ill-prepared for such brutal frontal assaults.
