Read Hyper Death Space Opera, its gonna be better I swear, I'm on my hands and knees, look look, the cover the cover is sooo soo cool, please oh please read it I'm begging you!!! There isn't even that many chapters lol idk what I'm doing. If you go to read it, I hope you like it because I like what I'm doing here, want to essentially make it a better more concise version of Every Planet We Reach is Dead though it'll focus less on the alien sci-fi stuff and be more reminiscent to something like Dune, or Armored Core. I'll put a completely unrelated section on another novel I'm working on below the cover here since I need to fill out as many words as possible so I can post the announcement how I want it.
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A droning sound, metal machinery shifting within a deep white fog encompassing a muddy battlefield. Glowing lights peer out from within the smog, beaming throughout, shifting wildly out to the vast land in front of them. Soldiers wipe beads of sweat from their brows, faces caked in dirt and blood, praying quietly to themselves-- a bomb under the table, what sort of thing lay lurking from within the smoke, that all-encompassing smoke.
The smell of iron became strong, the lights moving forward to the trenches the men laid in, causing them to shift, pressing themselves further onto the walls of their trenches, hoping that doing so would allow them to become less visible, more experienced-looking soldiers rubbing themselves down with more mud. Outside the fog, soldiers sat, watching from afar, comforted by the mist, anxiety-ridden, knowing full well that something could happen at any moment.
A steel demon emerged from the fog, emitting puffs of steam from its carapace and what looked to be an unhinged jaw, a faint glow peering out from within its gaping maw, lights narrowing themselves, focusing entirely on what was in front of them, the lights slowly merging into each other into one, moving into a complete circle, making zero gaps from within the individual lights on the hunkering monster in front of the soldiers. The droning sound turned into an ear-piercing shrill that shook the mountains and ground surrounding it, the metal on its carapace jittering violently in symphony. A chamber on one of the arms shifted back, and the section locked itself to the machine gun arm, shifting forward, fully loading itself into the weapon, the sound of bullets clattering against each other causing the soldiers’ ears to ring. One jumped out from a trench, throwing a grenade to the metal demon’s feet, and another soldier threw a Molotov at its body from behind.
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As both of these things happened, the Demon lurched forward, the torso of the machine lowering itself, shooting to the side, the arm extending violently outward knocking the grenade away, their other arm pointed toward the Molotov, shifted back, the gun rotating, firing multiple rounds into the direction, one bullet streaming through the glass enveloped with flame causing a flower of fire to fly outward as the glass broke, the screeching light passing through the air slamming against the muddy earth, taking the man behind them with it, pieces of gore flying into the air, the remnants of his form barely visible through the pillars of dirt from the resulting attack.
Its other arm recoiled, a massive sound of an explosion emanating from the gun, the trench being completely decimated, many a soldier retreating.
The Demon-- a mass of metal with eight eyes, two arms, and four legs. This planet had not met such a thing in their lives, had only heard tales of similar creatures. What made it all the more terrifying was that there were more in number, grotesque creatures made of iron metal frames and far-off technology.
They were isolated people…
A new era had begun, a world corrupted by a touch of an up-and-coming corporation that rose to an astronomical degree in such a short amount of time, and just as fast as it rose… it fell just as quickly.