"Drop her into the pit right now, and I promise your absolute destruction will be the most agonizing thing this city has ever witnessed, you pathetic coward!"My voice detonated across the sprawling concrete expanse of the West Side docks, vibrating against the damp industrial walls and shaking the heavy iron chains hanging from the ceiling like wind chimes in a hurricane. I stood planted amid the shattered glass and twisted metal ribs of the warehouse wall I had just blasted through, my carbon...fiber staff gripped so tightly in my hand that the metal housing shrieked and groaned under the immense pressure of my fury. Directly ahead, hovering over the gaping abyss of the churning black shadow whirlpool, the high...tier Mimic leader sneered down at me while holding Dixy suspended by a taut steel cable over the dark liquid death. Dixy locked her fierce eyes onto mine, her expression completely devoid of fear despite the lethal drop beneath her boots, her jaw set with a stubborn resilie