Carapace Centurion Novels & Stories

I high tail out of there into the next room. Next up there are Roman marble heads. It is even more creepy so I walk to the next one. This is the Recumbent man. This is a full sculpture of a man sitting on his side. It looks like he doesn't have a shirt on. The Medea Sarcophage looks like multiple females with long flowing dresses. The centaurs are a mosaic that caught my eye straight away. It is a scene of a centaur trying to fight off a tiger, a leopard, and a lion to save his friend. By the looks of things, his friend is already dead.

Centaur added. I looked at Mamba and nodded my head. We crawled slowly on the bushes. I stopped immediately when I heard a car's engine. "Hold positions. One vehicle departing, two guys on board." Centaur said. He's at the top of a big water tank near the warehouse. "Any visuals inside?" I asked. "Negative." He replied. "Phoenix, proceed with the plan after five minutes. Centaur, we need your go signal." Sphinx said. "I'm on it." Centaur replied.

"The Sovereign-Mates are deemed Irreparable. Initiate Full-Deletion." The Centinel lunged, its limbs made of "Optimization-Scythes."

Delta Commander said. A blonde woman with cold blue eyes walked out and the screen in front of us changed to a body that made me do a double take. It was a 3-dimensional image of a man with the legs of a horse. “During the attack, I was able to secure this specimen. It is called a Centaur, half man, half horse and according to the various tests that I have done on it, this Centaur is estimated to be thousands of years old.” I looked on in awe but listened with rapt attention.

The ceiling didn't just crack; it pulverized. The diamond-tipped Mantis-Borer—a segmented, robotic centipede designed for deep-crust mining—shrieked as it ground through the final layer of basalt. It was a masterpiece of the Iron Mind’s engineering: a relentless, unfeeling predator that didn't need to breathe, bleed, or think. "Flares! Now!" Siren screamed.

Another shriek, and this time Kronos backed up in horror as a giant centipede reared its head. It was twenty feet tall, its black skin hard as stone. Its legs were taller than the average human man. Protruding out of its jaw were two long jagged pincers that produced green ooze. Its glowing red eyes eyed the Abnormals that had dared to intrude in its lair with malice and hunger. “ It’s an Untri. We are so dead,” Thora whispered. “ What exactly is an Untri?” Kronos asked.

"My cousin calls it the Marc Antony. It's a cheaper variant of the Caesar Augustus. Impressive, huh?" "Wow. And you say it's cheap? It looks just as grand as the original Caesar Augustus, just with a different flavor." The dark armor plates, the blood-red shield with its lightning bolts and eagle wings, the various red and bronze accents, they all contributed to an image of unbridled blood lust and aggression. "What's that cool looking thing at the top?" Janet curiously asked as she spotted the strange helmet crest and the red vapor spouting quietly from the slit at the top.

With a squeal, the centipede flipped and skittered across the ground, the rocks it collided with shattering to dust. It was mighty, but it was mere brute force. "I have to admit, its armor is impressively tough," Alexander mused aloud. Alexander threw two mighty punches, but they only managed to dent the beast's armored shell instead of piercing it. The colossal centipede launched itself into the air, its jaws snapping viciously as it lunged at Alexander, intent on continuing its assault. As a formidable creature revered in its own right, it was not about to give up without a fight.

More like grown. It rose in smooth arcs, unfolding like the ribs of some ancient construct. Lucien’s voice lowered to a whisper. “Armor.” I stared. It was not fully formed yet. But the design.... It mirrored the very sketches I had drawn months ago in isolation. Layered plating. Integrated core chamber. Articulated joints. Impossible symmetry. Except this...This was not my creation. Zenith stared at it in shock. “It was waiting,” she breathed. “For what?” Lucien asked. Her eyes lifted slowly. “For me.”

Ang mga puno sa paligid ay naging uling, at ang lupa ay naging bubog dahil sa tindi ng init. ​Sa gitna ng crater, nakahiga si Xander. Ang Alpha-Centurion Armor ay wala na—ito ay naging mga piraso na lamang ng puting alikabok na dahan-dahang tinatangay ng hangin. Ang tanging natira ay si Xander, na hubad hanggang baywang, ang kanyang katawan ay balot ng mga asul na ugat na kumikinang—isang tanda ng Soul-Link Overload.