Chapter 81 Avery’s Gambit

"Is he not coming?"

Crouching behind a wall in one of the simulated buildings. Ezra calmly waited for Avery to show himself again.

So far, their match had been a game of cat and mouse. Where Avery sought out Ezra and attempted to take him out with his overwhelming firepower, while Ezra used hit and run tactics to slowly whittle away at Avery’s defenses.

Of course, Ezra felt confident that even if he got into a head-to-head brawl, that he could beat Avery even with his power armor, but doing so was somewhat risky. Especially when he was uncertain of the weapons and tricks the Sterkur might possess.

Still, Ezra could not just cower inside a building the entire time. If Avery was not going to come to him, then he would just have to continue sneaking around and get close enough to shoot another barrage of lasers before escaping again.

Yet, just before Ezra moved from his current location, the sensors in the visor he was wearing detected the approach of a large mass.

Avery’s power armor came lumbering into view a few moments later.

It began swiveling around


Except, Ezra had not truly been hit by the blast.

"That was a good plan, but you should have accounted for the fact that I have a personal shield generator. Even I’m under no illusion that I can block every laser fired at me with only my hard light shield." Ezra said, turning to face Avery.

He then lowered his posture so that he was fully covered by his shield and charged.

Before he had avoided engaging in close combat due to possibly being overwhelmed by Avery’s power armor. But now that it was out of the equation, he was free to end this battle with his overwhelming physical abilities.