[Warning! Structure limit exceeded.]
"Deploy."
Fourteen massive runes materialized in the darkness, spinning around Alvian. He didn't use them as a shield this time. He cast them downward, arranging them into a horizontal platform beneath Valeria and himself.
"Impact brace."
They hit the runes.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
The runes detonated one by one upon contact, not with explosive force, but with a repulsive kinetic blast. Alvian had inverted the [Reactive Force]. Instead of reflecting damage, the runes acted as high-powered air brakes, blasting them upward against the pull of gravity.
The deceleration was brutal. It felt like being hit by a truck, but it was better than being splattered on the bedrock.
They slowed from a lethal drop to a hard landing.
"THUD."
Alvian landed in a crouch, his [Vestments of the Void Monarch] absorbing the shock. His boots crunched on metal grating, not stone.
