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[System Notification: You have slain a Four-Star Soldier. +40 Experience.]
Three down in the time it takes a runner to take two hard breaths.
"Close in you fucking idiots!" the captain Rauk barked his orders, climbing to his feet, jaw red and swelling.
They closed. Kai broke them again. He didn't give them clean pictures. He gave them stutters and short pain. He used the spear butt like a club, then the blade like a nail, then the shaft like a lever to yank men out of shape. When a four-star tried to hook his ankle, Kai let the hook catch and used the line to pull the man off balance, then cut him under the arm as he fell.
[System Notification: You have slain a Four-Star Soldier. +40 Experience.]
Another tried to take him from behind. Antennae Sensory Boost flared; he felt the step and the breath. He snapped his head back, cracked the man's nose with the back of his skull, spun, and pushed the point in deep.
'Bam'
