While they were returning to the sanctuary city, all their halobands began buzzing loudly.
They instantly checked what was going on.
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Mission #1595I
Description: [Assist S.C. 08-A in containnt and neutralization of a Rank 2 Terror Gate.]
Circle: [Trina Unit.]
Enforcer: [Angelo Terns.]
Duration: [Unknown]
Reward: [To be decided per the rit.]
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Rudy read the mission and frowned, "Why is the duration unknown?"
"Because it’s an instant mission," John answered with a look too serious for his usual cheerfulness.
Rudy’s brows knit together, and he asked, "What’s an instant mission?"
"Missions that imdiately need to be dealt with, it’s unknown because the syndicate didn’t get enough ti to do a check on it... which is common for gates that appear within the cities," Ray explained with a sombre expression.
’So it’s within the city...’ Rudy noted in his head.
He clenched his fists and mumbled, "Do we have to assist the irregulars of S.C. 08-A?"
"That’s what the mission implies," Angelo responded. "But most of them are already busy taking care of the other gates, so just assu that you’ll have to do it by yourself."
Rudy nodded, and Trina sent him a ssage.
[Trina: Don’t do what you did last ti.]
He frowned and asked, "What do you an?"
She looked into his eyes and typed with an expression that said she wouldn’t take no for an answer.
[Trina: Do not go around killing dreadborns without any care. I don’t want you to get hurt.]
Corners of his lips lifted into a smile, and just as he was about to comnt, she sent another ssage.
[Trina: I an, if you get hurt, others will get hurt as well, so don’t get hurt!!]
"I know, I know," Rudy nodded as he leaned in his seat.
Trina’s eyes stayed on his face before they began to trace lower, just as her gaze landed on his bare chest, her haloband buzzed.
She raised a brow and checked it.
[Ray: Our mission is to kill monsters... not make more of them.]
Her face turned red, she quickly replied to him, and lowered her head.
Tires of the ARO let out a shriek as it ca to a halt, and all of them stepped down from it.
Before the gate stood four chas, and behind them were the bare few deviants of the city.
Circle took out their weapons and walked a few steps closer to the gate.
Seeing the syndicate’s uniform, the other irregulars stepped to the side, and they stopped beside the three-ter-tall humanoid war machines.
Four deviants were piloting the four chas, and Angelo was the only breaker who was present at the site.
Rudy stared at the gate and thought, ’A rank 2 terror gate has three waves and one gate guardian... the first two waves would be of latent, the third wave of Deviant, and the gate guardian would be a Tainted.’
With a faint crunch, the dark terror gate opened, and stout humanoid dreadborns with dark, bubbling skin, purple, ravenous eyes, standing seven feet tall, and shoddy, blunt weapons stepped out.
Dreadborns let out a wet, wrong shriek. Thick, dark green sticky saliva fell from their pudgy maws, and the chas moved to deal with them.
Slim chas cut through the air and appeared beside the dreadborns in a single mont, swung their large blades at them, and severed them into two.
Broad chas strode forward, the ground shook with each step, and their heavy mace fell onto the dreadborns, instantly crushing them.
’Latent Beasts.’ Rudy stood at his spot and watched everything happen with a calm expression.
Trina nudged him and pointed towards the gate.
Rudy shook his head and said, "Not yet... this is just the first wave, the third wave would be of deviants, we can’t waste our energy on them."
Trina and others nodded, and John stated with a wide grin, "You are a quick learner."
Rudy smiled and examined every single movent of the dreadborns to craft a plan.
About five minutes later, the gate humd, and more of the similar dreadborns flooded out of it.
’Latent fiends...’
Deviants of the city moved to help the chas that were already being overwheld by the sheer number of the dreadborns, but Trina’s circle didn’t move yet.
City deviants and the chas worked like a perfect team, yet they still weren’t as fast as them.
Rudy finally ca out of his thoughts, and the circle’s haloband buzzed at the sa ti.
[Trina: We can do this!]
His lips curved upwards, and the gate let out another sinister hum.
Similar dreadborns with darker skin poured out of the gates, and Rudy muttered, "Deviant fiends."
chas and deviants of the city focused on them, and a dreadborn crushed one of the irregulars with its crude mace.
Circle dashed forward, Rudy lifted his sword and swung it widely.
Dreadborn let out a shriek as his blade sank into its body, and blood sprayed out, but it failed to kill it in a single attack.
Its mace cracked with a purple glow, and it swung it at him.
’Shit.’ Rudy jumped to the side, narrowly dodging the attack, and thrust forward at the center of Dreadborn’s chest, and due to its size, it was too slow to react.
Rudy’s sword pierced the center of its chest, and its tip protruded out of its back.
"Just die already!" He spat while looking at the other deviant fiends that others were dealing with.
It let out a loud, guttural roar. He threw a punch under its wide maw and a kick to its leg.
Ground shuddered as it crashed down.
Rudy’s sword slid across its neck, its head fell, and blood fountained from it.
Rudy took a few quick breaths, and Final Will’s familiar voice echoed in his head.
[You have slain a Deviant Fiend: Salivor Maw!]
Suddenly, he felt his power increase a little, and Final Will spoke the words he had been waiting for.
[Your blood has grown pure.]
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