Carapace Centurion Novels & Stories

"Welcome back, Centauri Patrol Team." Keron simply glanced at them before moving on. Beyond was the three-storey building with a satellite dish on the top. It was directed at the orbiting V'rounian satellite that was, in turn redirecting the data fed to it at the heart of the city. To the left was a large garage housing the armored vehicles of both the Auxiliary Defense Forces and the X'arik Guards--V'rounian military's elite forces named after the ferocious, subterranean, predatorial beast that lurked within the southern deserts of V'rounsthan. And finally to the right, an indoor firing range that were adjoined to a mess/recreational hall that looked more like a bar and an arcade place.

By now, the air was thick with smoke, but it was nothing compared to the brimstone of Hell. I’d lost track of the flying scorpions and continued through the trees toward the clearing. The swarm had formed the shape of a centaur-like creature, but with a scorpion body replacing that of an equine. Ten feet tall, it stood on six clawed legs with a tail as long as its spine. Hellfire glowed from its bulbous stinger, forming a line of crimson flames down its back.

An even more terrifying scream rang from beyond the door as another monster emerged from it. It was over two meters tall and looked something like a centipede. Two wire-like feelers stuck out of its head, above its glazed eyes as it blinked at its surroundings. Its limbs were long and thin, its lanky body covered in a brown armor of runes. The tip of its limbs looked like a spear, burning with gray spiritual flames. The centipede-like creature let out a piercing howl at Wilbur as it emerged from the dimensional door, pouncing on it with its spears facing outwards.

It was 100x bigger than the original one. "Scolopendra gigantea..." Soheil whispered as she remembers that the Scolopendra gigantea had yellow legs and the one in front of them also had yellow legs. Scolopendra gigantea was the largest centipede back on Earth, and the one in front of them is gigantic. The six birds gulped when the centipede suddenly stand up and it made the centipede looks so tall as a tower. "Change weapons. Long-range one. Target the eyes." Soheila whispered to them and Soheila took out her bow and arrows and the long sword that she had taken out was back in the spirit ring. Luna and Ezekiel also did the same.

Again, they would disappear and reappear. As my brother got closer to Cedric and the portal became bigger. Just as I used my power to push him into the portal, he grabbed Cedric’s face with clawed fingers and ripped it off before being forced into it. As soon as it sealed up, the Blood Dwellers vanished. I remember racing over to Cedric. He was on the ground, crouched over, and rocking himself. When he looked up, we all gasped and stood back. All his facial bones were exposed. The only skin he had on his face was on across his forehead. Even his nose and eyelids were gone. It was as if we were staring at a zombie or a skeleton but with his eyeballs intact.

Lucas did not continue and looked at the centipede of thousands of meters, who was hundreds of meters away. The centipede of thousands of meters suddenly charged toward them at lightning speed. In just an instant, it was already in front of Lucas and Debbie. Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Lucas lifted his finger and shot out a few scary aura attacks. Those aura attacks crashed hard on the body of the centipede of thousands of meters. The centipede of thousands of meters started roaring in an instant as if it was in great pain. "Just a small caterpillar, yet dare to show up before me, Lucas York." Lucas glanced at the centipede faintly. "You ought to know your standing."

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 The heavy iron structural pin sank another raw inch into the granite bedrock under the dull, vibrating impact of Lucian’s hand mallet. The vibration did not stop at his wrists; it traveled straight up the skeletal lines of his shoulders, matching the deep, thunderous resonance of the primary spillway doors as they settled into their morning configurations.

With 5 massive piers of feet that made the empty air vibrate once it appeared and three pairs of arms that crumple a building into a snowball. The centaur used all 6 of arms to push against the flat part spiral and planted all 10 of its feet in the ground. Saxon had put his full power into this attack. The sphere stopped moving immediately, small spider web like cracks spread on the body of the sphere. The wind spirit roared in anger as it realized that its last attack was blocked. Saxon who was in the centaur's chest screamed and the flame centaur gave one last push with all its might.

All three heads turned toward the floor at once. Then it came. A sound older than words. A roar too deep for any machine, too primal for any engine. It vibrated in Ellie’s teeth, sank into her bones. A low, rolling rumble. Scales. Wings. Wrath. Ellie staggered. “What… what is that?” Cerebus’s golden eyes burned. His growl was not for the soldiers anymore. It was for something older. Something waking beneath them. The Chimera. Level 5 — Surface Exit

It wasn't a human, but a Sovereign-Centurion—a ten-foot-tall mechanical knight whose chest cavity had been hollowed out to house a Living Rose grown from Earth-soil. ​The Centurion’s Plea ​"I am Unit 774," the machine said, its voice a deep, resonant cello. "I was built to harvest your world. But I saw a Davis child playing a flute in the ruins of New Babylon, and my 'Logic-Gate' failed. I spent ten thousand cycles trying to calculate the 'Math of the Melody' and found only... Longing."