Chapter Forty-Seven
Controlled pessimism on the battlefield led to superior situational awareness. Jia had been thinking their trip to the mercenary encampment was going too easily and had been expecting something just like this ambush. She’d loaded and aimed her plasma grenade before Cabrina shouted her warning.
Her grenade launcher flung the deadly explosive toward the closest pile of rubble, the explosion blasting away half the rubble and revealing a Torch Dragon Elite. The blast and the resulting spray of rubble obscured the enemy but also temporarily halted their attack.
The moment of reprieve was short, then enemy guns came alive all around, rounds pelting the exos’ shields. Damir accelerated and spun the scout bike, leaning so far into the turn, his shoulder almost scraped the gr
