​     Okay, Adam thought. ​I've screwed up his equilibrium. Now what? On thing for sure, he had to press the advantage. Adam smacked Alacran in the face, even though he wore no gloves and Alacran's skull was covered with armor as thick and as hard as any metal alloy. Not that Adam wasn't powerful himself. He knew himself to be several times stronger than any human he'd ever met, but even at that...The first blow didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever.

     Well, maybe if he kept pounding. 

     BASH! BASH! BASH!

​     And then there was that damned tail. It seemed to have a mind all its own, which Adam assumed that it probably did, a computer mind at least. While he worked on Alacran's face with his right fist, he used his left hand to slap the tail and Alacran's two fists away. What he needed to do was grab that damned tail and twist it until...

​     So where's Livia's security? he thought as he and Alacran continued to thrash away at each other. What, she'd double crossed probably the single most vicious predator in Infini, and she didn't even bother to bring in back up?

CONTINUE