Except Him. So she slowly tried to trust for the first time and He breached her defense walls brick by brick, breaking her down, stripping her emotio...ally and now he disappeared like all the others. She should’ve known this would happen. Damn herself for not holding the emotional fort in place. Men and abandonment seemed to go hand-in-hand in her life. Cass was always smart enough and detached enough from men to be able to pull back when it seemed too close so something like this very. BANG!After evading six current of green wind, the seventh struck Zax, pierced his shielding Kinetic Force, cutting his left shoulder. Blood gushed from the wound, but in mere seconds it stopped and started healing.WHOOSH!Ignoring the risk of encountering more currents of green wind, Zax dove forward.WHOOSH!WHOOSH!WHOOSH!The gap between him and Murreta shortened to less than twenty meters in a blink. Not far behind, the other two Martial Mortals were also about to make a move, as they could not. ’ Haroun al-Rashid led Arram to an entrance far away from the main gates. Two strapping mamluks guarded this portal, but the caliph waved them aside simply by saying, “I am Haroun al-Rashid, let me through.” The interior corridor was all of marble set with lapis lazuli tiles, and burning censers lined the walls, emitting sweet-smelling smoke. Arram couldn’t believe he was really in the palace, and his amazement grew when they came to the next room: Here was a chamber that seemed to be made of. “What uh, what do you need help with exactly?”The old man waved a dismissive hand at the chaos around him. “I’m working on a brand new project and I need all of this cleared away.”“What is,” Ben gestured to the boxes, “ all of this?”“Prototypes, failed experiments…junk, in essence.”This was not unusual. During his youth Mr Daniels had been a fairly successful engineer and physicist. Even in old age he was always tinkering, always working on the next great thing that would change the world.“So,.