"No, No, No! Noooo!!!!" Kiva repeatedly shouted after a sudden explosion had nearly hit him. "How could this be?!"
The two other scientists who were ready to take him on were unsure what exactly was going on. One moment Kiva had been combining the two nearly dead Drill Rhinos into one so that it could 'pulverise' them into submission, yet the very next after surviving a blast Kiva was screaming as if it had hit him.
Yet Kiva was more worried about the consequences of this distraction than his near-death encounter.
The magical combination of the two Drill Rhinos required a set amount of mana to succeed. Any more or less would reduce the optimal abilities of the newly fused monsters. What had happened was that a shot from Stalingrad might have failed to get Kiva, but it had perfectly hit the not yet fully formed monster.
