Silas Hale gracefully leaped into the air. He swung his glowing, emerald-green sword of Life Magic. The warm green magic did not care about the twisted gravity. The Life Magic sliced perfectly through the cold, dead blue glass. Silas cut three monsters completely in half in a single, beautiful spinning attack. But there were too many of them. The silent monsters attacked from all sides. Because they made no sound, it was incredibly hard to track them. A glass monster snuck silently behind Claire. It raised its sharp ice blade to stab her in the back. “Claire! Behind you!” Jin screamed in the magic web. Jin and Sera were hiding behind a large stone block. Jin did not have a gun. She grabbed a heavy, broken rock from the floor. Jin did not throw the rock straight at the monster. She was a genius hacker. She understood the twisted math of the room. Jin threw the heavy roc

A very loud, sharp mechanical sound echoed from the floor beneath Kade's heavy boot. Kade froze completely still. His scarred face turned totally pale. "Landon," Kade whispered nervously. "I think I just stepped on a pressure plate." "Do not move, Kade," Claire ordered instantly. Her tactical mind snapped into focus. Before anyone could do anything, the walls of the tunnel began to shake violently. "The walls are moving!" Sera screamed. It was true. The massive, thick iron walls on the left and the right sides of the tunnel were sliding inward. They were closing in. And sticking out of the moving walls were hundreds of razor-sharp, rusted metal spikes. "It is a crushing trap!" Marcus roared. "We are going to be squashed like bugs!" The walls moved incredibly fast. They had less than ten seconds before the sharp spikes crushed them all to death. "Run forwa

Juno placed both of her hands over the terrible, bleeding wound on his side. She pushed every single drop of her warm, golden healing magic directly into his body. The golden light glowed brightly. The heavy bleeding stopped. The torn muscles slowly knitted themselves back together. Navarro gasped loudly as the pain faded. He was safe. But Juno paid a terrible price. She had used absolutely all of her magic. The golden light faded from her hands. She collapsed backward onto the stone floor, completely exhausted. She could not heal anyone else today. "Thank you, Juno," Navarro whispered, slowly sitting up and grabbing his pistol. “Landon! We have to end this now!” Claire’s voice echoed urgently in the War Resonance web. “Juno is out of magic! We cannot take another hit like that!” “I agree,” Landon thought fiercely. His dark eyes burned with bright white fire. &ldqu

"What was he digging for?" Marcus asked. The giant bearded man pumped his heavy shotgun. "Look," Silas whispered softly. He pointed his glowing green sword toward the center of the giant room. The team slowly walked forward. Their heavy boots crunched loudly on the dusty black stone floor. They reached the center of the vault. Sitting in perfect rows were dozens of massive, solid stone pedestals. Resting on top of the stone pedestals were objects. They were weapons, armor, and strange magical devices. But they did not look like human weapons. They were far too large, far too strange, and far too powerful. On one pedestal rested a gigantic, heavy war hammer. The hammer was made of black metal that looked like frozen lava. It glowed with a terrifying, pulsing red heat. On another pedestal sat a beautiful, delicate crown made entirely of jagged, freezing white ice. The crown was so cold that the air around it turned into thick, white snow. On a third pedestal was a massive, dark

The massive, underground Armory of the Fallen was sinking. Boiling, toxic purple lava swallowed the black stone floor. The heat was absolutely unbearable. It felt like standing on the surface of the sun. Thick, poisonous smoke filled the air, making the Vanguard team cough and choke. Standing in the middle of the rising purple fire was the ghost of Claire Arden’s father. The ghost did not look kind anymore. Its eyes were solid, pitch-black pools of evil dead-god magic. "You will all burn!" the ancient, evil voice of the ghost screamed. "You cannot stop the end of the universe!" Landon Hale stood firmly on a small, cracking piece of black stone. The purple lava bubbled wildly just inches away from his heavy winter boots. He wrapped his large, muscular left arm tightly around Claire. She was shaking. Seeing her father's face turned into a monster had broken her heart. "Landon! The floor is gone!" Kade yelled. Kade, Marcus, Navarro, Jin, Sera, Juno, and Silas were crowded together