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Kertujii ducked behind the chuck of metal that once was part of his unit’s armored transport as the bio-mechanical monstrosity unleashed a deadly volley of razor-sharp quills.

He heard the loud thud of the impacts against the metallic surface just a couple seconds after he reached for his cover.
One of the soldiers was not so lucky and the quills pierced through his body armor with ease.

No one knew where the enemy found those creatures but their appearance changed the course of war.

Kertujii leaned against his cover and he discharge the entire magazine of his assault rifle on the creature.
Strange fluids oozed from the wounds but it didn’t seem to affect the creature at all.

The heavy weapons specialist in his unit drew a rocket launcher but the creature closed the distance quickly on its six armored legs and it transfixed the soldier with one of its mechanical tentacles, hurling the body away.

In that moment Kertujii saw his only window of opportunity.
He run toward the rocket launcher as the creature, ignoring the suppressive fire deployed by the rest of his unit, prepared to unleash another volley of quills.

He jumped over the debris filling the battlefield until he finally grabbed the rocket launcher.
He turned around and pressed the trigger.

The rocket flew toward the target as the creature unleashed its volley of quills.
Kertujii felt a couple of them grazing his left leg but he ignored the pain and he kept the eyes on the target.

The anti-tank rocket hit right at the base of the creature’s head, which exploded in a mixture of organic and mechanical bits.

As he regrouped with unit and tended to his superficial wounds he remembered a story his grandparents used to tell him.

They told the story of legendary warriors of incommensurable power who travelled the cosmos in their eternal war against evil.

The legend said they visited the planet millennia ago and that they would have returned only to face an evil so great no mere mortal could overcome.

For a moment a part of him wished that legend were true, so that he could have at least clung to a feeble hope.

He promptly repressed the thought for he needed to keep his contact with the harsh reality.

If only he could see the events unfolding few blocks away.
If only he could see the mysterious warrior carving his path through the ranks of those abomination with ease, he would realize sometimes the boundaries between myth and reality are more blurred than we thought.

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The image has been created using AI tools (with the usual planning and editing made by myself) but the story is all written by myself.

Description
Kertujii ducked behind the chuck of metal that once was part of his unit’s armored transport as the bio-mechanical monstrosity unleashed a deadly volley of razor-sharp quills.

He heard the loud thud of the impacts against the metallic surface just a couple seconds after he reached for his cover.
One of the soldiers was not so lucky and the quills pierced through his body armor with ease.

No one knew where the enemy found those creatures but their appearance changed the course of war.

Kertujii leaned against his cover and he discharge the entire magazine of his assault rifle on the creature.
Strange fluids oozed from the wounds but it didn’t seem to affect the creature at all.

The heavy weapons specialist in his unit drew a rocket launcher but the creature closed the distance quickly on its six armored legs and it transfixed the soldier with one of its mechanical tentacles, hurling the body away.

In that moment Kertujii saw his only window of opportunity.
He run toward the rocket launcher as the creature, ignoring the suppressive fire deployed by the rest of his unit, prepared to unleash another volley of quills.

He jumped over the debris filling the battlefield until he finally grabbed the rocket launcher.
He turned around and pressed the trigger.

The rocket flew toward the target as the creature unleashed its volley of quills.
Kertujii felt a couple of them grazing his left leg but he ignored the pain and he kept the eyes on the target.

The anti-tank rocket hit right at the base of the creature’s head, which exploded in a mixture of organic and mechanical bits.

As he regrouped with unit and tended to his superficial wounds he remembered a story his grandparents used to tell him.

They told the story of legendary warriors of incommensurable power who travelled the cosmos in their eternal war against evil.

The legend said they visited the planet millennia ago and that they would have returned only to face an evil so great no mere mortal could overcome.

For a moment a part of him wished that legend were true, so that he could have at least clung to a feeble hope.

He promptly repressed the thought for he needed to keep his contact with the harsh reality.

If only he could see the events unfolding few blocks away.
If only he could see the mysterious warrior carving his path through the ranks of those abomination with ease, he would realize sometimes the boundaries between myth and reality are more blurred than we thought.

____

The image has been created using AI tools (with the usual planning and editing made by myself) but the story is all written by myself.