Albrecht stepped through the glowing golden portal. His heavy iron boots slammed onto the pristine white tiles of the Apex Cybernetics hallway.
The air was sterile, smelling of ozone and expensive air conditioning. It was a massive contrast to the decaying, rusted wasteland of the Abyss.
Fifty corporate elite soldiers blocked the hallway. They wore bulky, state-of-the-art physical exo-suits and carried heavy plasma cannons. They had been waiting for the portal to open, but they clearly hadn't expected a towering monster in spiked meteor-iron armor with a golden System interface burning in his eyes.
"Target sighted!" the commanding officer screamed, pointing at Albrecht. "Lethal force! Melt him down to slag!"
All fifty plasma cannons fired at the exact same time. The narrow white hallwa
