Marcus was holding Kevin and Mick down with Keryn behind the half shattered glass cage with a green rock inside while he heard the instruction of the master. He raised his head slightly to check on Gloria - she was holding Tae Kuo down behind a glass cage with a glowing silver rock inside. At this moment, a group of two armed men were heading their way with their weapons ready to fire.
Without much time to think or aim, Marcus picked a piece of shattered glass from the ground and flung it at the two men in black. He was never a really good shot with throwing weapons, this time it was no different - the piece of glass shard missed the target. But luckily, it was close enough to force the two men to back off.
Gloria noticed the especially forceful glass shard, as it shot through the air with high speed and left a small crater on the wall when it crashed. This allowed her to see the two enemies dangerously close to her. And with two swift swings, she sunk two glass shards near her into the chest and waist of the two men.
Keryn roared, swing-kicking a man in black in his chest and sending him into a glass cage behind. Another man in black rushed over and tried to point his gun at her, she swung her left arm and flung a large glass shard his way. Before this man could open fire, he was struck in the chest and dropped on his back.
Right when the fight started, it was as if everyone present had some kind of tacit agreement to not target or damage the rocks in glass cages. The men in black, even in their panic and frenzy, tried their best to avoid actually firing upon any of the rocks. But as the fight raged on, this caution was gradually left behind, causing more rocks stored in the room to crack, splinter and break.
“Master!” After caving in the chests of two men in black and cracking another’s skull, Marcus noticed that the master was forced into a meditative pose behind a glass cage - a move only explainable by his being in trouble. And the dark smoke arising from his robe and the grim aura forming around him would explain why. Without much time to think, Marcus picked up a glass shard and a sharp splinter from an orange gem from the ground and launched them at the group of three men going at the master while firing suppressive shots around the ground and the glass cage.
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The glass shard crushed the right shoulder of the man closest to Marcus, while the splinter slashed through the shoulder and chest armor of the other two like a tempered and hardened blade. Blood gushed and shot into the air, as the splinter barely slowed and shot right at a light blue rock at the far end of the room. The glass cage protecting the rock was decimated during the fight.
Right after a light, even pleasant “ding”, exploded a deafening ring. Almost everyone stopped what they were doing just to cover their ears. Nearly all of the remaining glass cages exploded from the noise.
Rainbows, actual rainbows of different shapes - from dome shapes, to triangle, to round and even to multi-point star shapes began manifesting in the space, even though there were no water droplets in the air.
“Out! Out, out! Get outta here!” Marcus yelled as he rushed to cover Kevin and Mick from the flying glass and gem debris.
An armed man in black screamed and fell against Kevin and Mick’s backs. A sliver of broken gem was embedded in his throat. His face was flashing in silvery blue and green, the light was so bright and piercing even the thick face shield on his helmet could not hide it. At the same time, smoke was seeping through his neck wound and the cracks in the helmet.
Marcus had no time to cover for this man, so he just caught this man in black using his right foot and kicked him across the room. Similar slivers and glass shards were coming his way as well, most of them blocked his Qi hardened defenses. Yet a few of them still left thin cuts and scratches on his body, with energy with different sensations lingering on his skin.
There was no other obvious way out of the room, so every member of the team could only try their best to scooch towards the door through which they came in.
“The way is down!” Master Liaoran’s voice rocked the entire open space, rings of golden light spread through the rest of the space. The next minute, the entire floor shook, a huge chunk of the floor caved in, crumbled and fell to the level below.
The room below was empty, with only an array spanning across the entire round floor. The lines that made up the array were made with thick transparent tubes with glowing mini-tubes inside. Falling along with the master and a few unfortunate armed men were three giant gems with their glass cages.
Before they fell, the light in the tubes was flowing like a well-paced and well-rehearsed light show. The gems, the glass cages, and the people disrupted the flow, causing the tubes to begin flashing much more rapidly like they were alarms.