Aiden gave a dry smile. "Didn't leave a scratch. Not even a flicker."
That got a few hushed murmurs around the table.
"I hit it for two hours straight," he went on. "And after, I learned that the energy needed to keep that shield active—just for those two hours—was the same as what a mid-sized town used in a whole day. All of that for two hours of protection."
Ezzie gave a low whistle. "That's... insane."
"And it gets worse," Aiden added, his voice turning a bit more serious. "It needed constant maintenance and calibration specially their cores and without proper tech crews? It's dead metal after few usage. Same with the plasma rifle. It was more like a stationary weapon than a rifle. Way too heavy to carry anywhere unless you strapped it to a heavy armored tank."
