As I ca back towards my save point, there were now six people guarding the spot. The mont I showed up, I had to block an incoming slap.
"HONEY! What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Bella chastised in anger.
The sisters joined the worried chorus.
"Darling, please don't be so reckless."
"John, even for a descendant the way you fight is ridiculous."
In contrast, I got votes of admiration from the new group.
"I am in awe that {Withstand} could be used to turn your body into a battering ram. Amazing, southerner!"
"Did you see the way he used {Pack}?! Bloody Oath, you are fucking aweso, wombat!"
"That was a fantastic battle, Smith-san. Such tenacity even puts warriors from my holand to sha."
I didn't imdiately respond to any of them and instead rely cracked my neck. After I took a few monts to stretch I then checked the 1911 and began walking forward.
"I fought like this to show you all that Formless are not trash. Their deaths will be the first to prove this. Amari, Mia and the brute will be the next. No one touches Red. He is mine. Loot everything you can, and we will finish this after killing the brute."
The girls didn't reply but all moved with . Our group walked until I could see Red on his back on the ground, unable to stand. Was that why he couldn't follow up? His posture seed painful, so it seed like sothing had broken from his spine. This was the enemy I wanted to get back at? I felt pathetic.
"Hey Red, you still alive?"
"What's up cunt, that throw really did a number on my back. I lost without even getting to swing my sword… Oh? Is this your team? Your won look real nice. Have you tasted any fannies yet? Good on ya!"
Irritated, I didn't even bother replying and just shot both his kneecaps. Then his elbows and then his wrists. His screams rang out repeatedly with each round I fired. The event I looked forward so much to turned into nothing more than a chore. The shooting only ceased as I reloaded.
"Oy, you wanker. Just shoot in the head like you did the others, yeah? This fucking hurts."
I then shot two rounds in each of his shoulders then shot his balls. The girls around had different expressions. Liv's group relished the pathetic state of Oliver, while Bella's group just winced in disgust.
"AHHHHH!!! KILL ALREADY YOU CUNT!"
I walked forward, picked him up with {Pack} then pistol wiped his jaw. The sounds of bone shattering ant he would no longer be able to move his mouth. The man was bleeding all over, but as he was a reaper, and none of the spots were major arteries he would be okay for a while longer.
Red now could only mumble as he waited helplessly for his death.
"{Loot}"
A marble appeared on his right ear. Intrigued that he moved it there, I placed the 1911 in my armpit as I touched the soulgem. I then felt a stringlike energy swirling inside of it and drew it out like water into my own soulgem.
'This should be the souls,' I silently thought.
As his manifested {fate} was not touching his body, whatever ability he had turned out to be useless. Weren't manifested even more useless than the Formless? If you separated the weapon from them, they were no longer reapers in a sense.
I draped the bleeding Oliver on my back and turned to address the girls.
"I am done here, are you all ready? Who got to level 3?"
"Everyone already did, honey, the number of souls from the guys you killed was more than enough. So of us are close to getting to level 4," Bella confessed.
"Got it. Let's move."
"You aren't going to ask for them? If you took them all, you would already reach Level 5, southerner."
"You girls belong to my group, so it benefits to develop you all. I can just kill so more if needed. It's not a hard thing to do."
"I see." With a curt reply, Liv showed a faint smile.
"Have you gotten to Level 3 as well, Smith-san?"
"No, I'm still a thousand souls short. Never mind. Having a stock is good for , too. If you all are using {Rewind}, the sa goes for you all as well. Robyn, do you need more blood? Just use {Loot} after the battle," I instructed.
"Already did, wombat. Don't you worry."
"Right. Let's get going, then."
For so reason, the zombies nearby all headed towards the reaper army. Was soone there still alive? Well, good for us as this ant we didn't have to be worried about the small fry.
Despite the clashing of the titans, the Brute and the Gorilla made no sound as they pumled each other inside what looked like a large glass do with excellent lighting. Before I could even ask, Jo explained what the contraption was for.
"It is a soulcage, a soulgear that creates a fixed field for hunting or containnt. As for its functions, nothing can go in or out without a key. To think they prepared sothing like this… Either Amari or Mia should be a descendant," our blonde Italian explained.
"Why, though? Why bother to do all this? They had the firepower with the assault squad, didn't they?" Bella countered.
"My father once told that each enlistnt had a secret that few would know. Maybe this elaborate setup is what Amari-san and Mia-san chose to fulfill that requirent?"
A secret achievent, huh? That would make sense as to why would they went through all the trouble. But such things hardly mattered to . The more pressing matter was how could we get into the do?
Without a word, I pointed the 1911 on the cage and emptied my mag into it. The lead bullets I fired got stopped by the do as if I shot bulletproof glass. Cracks appeared around the impact point, but they were far too small compared to the size of the entire thing.
"Wow! It looks way tougher than I thought! I don't think even soul weaponry would break this type of material." Josephine couldn't help getting excited while she checked the bullet holes I made.
"Fuck dead, this is going to take forever, should we crack open a tinny?"
Jasmine chastised the swearing sailor. "Robyn, you should try to curse less you know, you are a lady so act like one."
Ignoring their debate on what I lady should be, I used {Identify} on the do. Inside, the brute was showing signs of fatigue. The werewolves were dousing the Gorilla's wounds with a green fluid. As the injuries healed, it had to be so sort of dicinal salve.
"I need a way in. Show ," I commanded.
A sudden heat again appeared on my neck. My {fate} seed to have once again answered my wish. Why it worked, I didn't know, all I was sure of was that {Rewind} responded to my call and gave a new possibility.
"{Expose}."
Like with {Loot}, green reticules showed different spots on the wall of the do. {Expose} was created from using {Perceive}, {Code}, and {Gather}. {Gather} was {Eat}'s evolution from Aki. It recorded information like a cookbook. Once information was found, it could be analyzed, stored and used in the future.
In the sa way {Loot} searched for the soulgems, {Expose} now searched for weaknesses. I couldn't help but smile. Anyone with {Code} would hardly have any use for it. The sa could be said for {Gather}. Yet having both and {Perceive} gave such a powerful weapon.
"{Reload}."
I refilled my ammunition and began shooting the highlighted spots in my vision. The girls noticed the areas I shot at, and all ca to the sa conclusion. The points appeared to form a star of David or the six-pointed star from the flag of Israel.
Like clockwork, Bella, Jo and Liv began hamring the points down low. The others took the ones up high. Jas shot five arrows per point. Aki and Robyn threw Kunia and steel spheres respectively at the other spots. When the highlighted points were beaten enough, they turned dim.
The mont the last point ceased to glow in my vision, a loud crack like a whip echoed in the air.
"HOLY SHIT!" Jo shouted in excitent.
"Amazing! John, is this yet another {Kist}?" Jasmine asked in wonder.
I quietly nodded. I changed magazines and pulled the slide back on the 1911. "Well then, shall we make history?"
"ROGER!" a united shout from the girls roared from behind .
The glass which slowly cracked from the inside finally broke and the thunderous roars of both the Gorilla and Brute made the very air tremble. Not willing to wait, I dashed inside and fired my gun towards the Brute.
My gunshots rang out as Amari the gorilla, Mia the werewolf and the undead brute faced . The .45 ACP didn't penetrate the zombie and only bounced off its skull.
"Tsk, guessed it wouldn't have been that easy," I complained.
"NO!" the female voice of one werewolf cried out.
The Brute, seeing the rest of us, violently struggled from Amari's grip. Unable to hold on, the undead suddenly bodyslamd Amari as one would do in Judo knocking him out cold. The Brute dashed past us out of the broken cage and ran towards the platform.
What the hell?! This thing knew kung-fu? How was that thing so fast? The werewolves all tried in vain to get on the massive undead.
I then threw Red to Liv.
"Robyn, pack the gorilla and run with ! The rest of you follow!" I shouted to the combat joey.
"Okay!"
Robyn and I grabbed one foot of the downed 10-foot Gorilla and ran after the Brute together with everyone and the werewolves.
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