One of the black pools of Karr....
What was it Stasor had said of those pools? "The pools are nothing more than atomic radiation—sheer energy—bottled up in vast chambers lined with stalahasil. Ready for use at any time."
Ready for use.
With the savage fury of the barbarian, Angus slammed the ringed barrel at the faces pressing in on him. They wanted him alive and that gave him the precious moment he needed.
He whipped the electroray high in the air, swung it so the weighted powercord flailed high and far over the metal rim of the pool's collar. It dropped down and down into the black depths.
Angus pressed the stud.
A ravening stream of black mist shot from the ringed nozzle. It touched the oncoming soldiers of the Diktor, touched them, and....
Ate them!
When the black mist faded the Diktor's soldiers faded, too. They were gone in that desolation of yawning street and crumpled walls. Where the black mist had touched nothing remained.