Sudden Attack

Alexei’s training at the hands of the Assassin’s Guild continued for weeks that stretched into months.

Every day he became a little bit faster and a little bit better at allowing his weapon to make key decisions at key moments.

He found that his weapon was a lot more adaptable than most others, pulling from a wider range of forms.

The High Matrix said to him one afternoon in the depths of winter, on a day when the sun barely crested over the horizon, that most people’s weapons eventually found three or four forms that they liked better than any other and then stuck to them. She called them the weapon’s bread and butter transformations.

Alexei’s weapon took longer than most to settle into them, but eventually, it did.

A light blade that could slash through seemingly any substance that was put before it depending on how high the dial was turned.

A projectile thrower, that Alexei had discovered was called a gun, which could fit in one hand and spit out bullets at an incredible rate