The tribal hunters rush behind Korr, racing down the slope of the dune.
But three figures reached the battlefield first.
Korr sprinted across the sand, his massive spear held low.
Beside him, Luma moved almost weightlessly, gravity bending subtly around his steps.
Seojun followed close behind, the Parasite tightening around his arm as if sensing the coming fight.
Ahead of them, the Sandworm thrashed violently across the dunes.
And on its back
Mira still held her ground.
Her pike was buried deep between the creature as she clung to the weapon to keep from being thrown off.
The sandworm twisted and slammed its body across the dunes, trying desperately to shake her and her shiny armor.
Above the chaos, Rui hovered on her broom, gripping a glowing crystal.
“Got it charged!” Rui shouted.
She aimed the crystal downward.
A pulse of energy blasted into the worm’s head, forcing the massive creature to recoil and thrash harder.
The worm spins its body toward the sand in a violent attempt to crush Mira against the ground.
But Mira was ready.
Space warped.
A portal snapped open beside her.
She shifted just enough to avoid the crushing impact.
The sandworm smashed into the dune and roared in fury.
That was when Korr arrived.
A moment later Luma slammed his staff into the sand.
Gravity surged.
The worm’s massive body crashed downward, the surrounding dunes collapsing under the sudden pressure.
The creature struggled, its movements suddenly sluggish under the crushing force.
“Now!” Luma shouted.
Seojun moved instantly.
Smashing his gauntlets with the extra power of the parasite into the worm.
Luma smirked.
“Watch.”
He raised his hand.
Gravity twisted in the air around him.
The droplets of poison lifted off the staff and floated upward, gathering into a spinning cloud in front of him.
Luma flicked his wrist.
Gravity compressed the poison into a tight spiral.
Then he thrust his staff forward.
“Go.”
The spinning mass of venom shot forward like a bullet and slammed into the worm’s side.
Gravity forced it deeper.
The toxic stream drilled straight through the creature’s scales and punched into the exposed flesh beneath.
The sandworm shrieked violently.
Mira felt the impact ripple through the monster beneath her boots.
” Dirty little kill stealers!” she shouted.
Dark blood and venom poured from the wound.
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“There!” he shouted, pointing with his spear.
“The armor is broken!”
At that moment the rest of the tribal hunters stormed over the dunes.
Sera was the first to reach the opening.
She slid down the side of a dune, drew her curved blade, and leapt toward the wound.
Her weapon plunged deep into the exposed flesh.
Others followed right behind her, twin blades flashing as he drove both of them into the same opening.
Another hunter hurled a long spear that buried itself into the torn armor.
A large hunter arrived next.
With a roar he swung his massive hammer down onto the broken plates.
CRACK.
The already weakened armor shattered further, widening the gap.
“Again!” Korr shouted.
Hunters swarmed the exposed spot.
Spears stabbed into the wound.
Blades carved deeper into the flesh.
Arrows and thrown weapons struck the same point again and again.
The sandworm convulsed violently under the pain, its huge body tearing through the desert as the hunters concentrated their attacks on the single broken section of armor.
Above them, Rui circled on her broom.
“Oh wow,” she said, watching the swarm of hunters attack the same spot.
“Yeah… that looks painful.”
Sandworms getting jumped by people with flying brooms, gravity-poison bullets, and a parasite-powered gauntlet punch that must hurt