The Endless Empire
J
ake kept staring at the corpse of the Hive King for several more seconds, still ready for anything to happen. It looked like it could begin moving at the very next second, even if he knew it wouldn’t. It took a few seconds for Jake to finally dismiss the katars and fall backward onto his ass, breathing out a loud sigh of relief.
"Damn, you were tough," Jake said out loud to the corpse of the Hive King.
Even now, with the carapace broken in so many places, the termite still looked indestructible. It had not lost a single one of its legs despite the continued bombardment, but he could see that the damage to its internals was an entirely different matter. It was all just a mush of flesh and blood beneath the armor, the explosions having done quite a number on the C-gr
