Noah got his left forearm up and twisted it across his chest, and he had white chi wrapped around the arm before the needle crossed the last ten feet.
It hit the chi at an angle and should have glanced off, the same as the constables' needles had all through the last yard. It didn't. It skidded along the white surface for a few inches, bit into the edge where the chi thinned out near his elbow, and punched through. He felt it rake across his ribs like a hot wire and then go on past him into the wall, where it left a hole so neat he could have threaded a string through it.
[-2,640 HP]
[Health Points: 109,470 / 147,600]
He looked at the groove along his ribs, already sealing, and then across the crater at Ego.
'That came through my guard from forty feet away. The constables couldn't do that standing in my face.'
Ego wasn't on the other side of the crater anymore.
