769 First Skirmish

The Arisen Army deployment shifted to form a semicircle around them from the front, allowing it to attack from the top and bottom as well but leaving a large gap behind the front line. 

"You go up; I will go down," Nico commented, then flashed through a portal toward Max's feet and outside the attempted encirclement. 

Max did the same in the opposite direction, and the semicircle collapsed, splitting in half and leaving themselves clustered for a wide dispersion of Max's main weapons, which eliminated dozens of ten-meter class War Walkers in an instant. 

With the pattern cleared out to some extent, it was easier to dodge the attacks, and Max began to pick off the Phalanx Class units, around twenty-five meters tall, which represented the greatest threat to his shielding.