Blood on the Asphalt biker
But the water didn't crash and fall; the localized gravity-well kept it flowing upward, pinning a rushing river of seawater directly against the glass of the Ark.
"Look!" Sienna’s voice screamed over the comms from the lower decks.
Through the roaring, inverted waterfalls pinning the city, shadows were moving.
They weren't the slow, heavily armored Trench-Walkers. They were Abyssal-Strikers.
Sleek, fluid-dynamic cybernetic assassins, armored in hydro-slick black carbon-fiber. They didn't carry heavy acoustic cannons; they carried high-frequency harmonic blades that vibrated fast enough to part water and durasteel alike.