475 Ambush Beneath (1/2)
The reactions of Raven's teammates quite a sight to behold.
While all of them struggled to the point of nearly losing someone just to deal with just two devils, Raven handled one by himself and came out unscathed. None of them saw how he fought but his results were more than enough to tell them that he's capable of surviving on his own. In addition to that, he even brought the devil back intact.
If there's anything that confuses them, that would be…
”Why would you want to dissect a Devil's body.” Jason asked, pretty much asking what the others want to know as well.
”Well, I mean aren't you guys curious?” Raven replied in an amused tone. ”I don't know, maybe that'll help us understand what kind of Devils we are facing.”
”Weird, but I don't think it's going to help us that much.” Jason stated. ”I mean if you want to, then maybe later after we set camp. Right now, it's time to move out. I'm afraid that the smell of corpses will attract more of them.”
”Alright, I didn't say I'm going to dissect it now anyway.” Raven said, he then kept the corpse of the devil inside a spatial ring and walked together with the rest.
He observed the situation of the group and discretely sent a voice transmission towards Jason, asking: 'What's with the gloomy mood? Did something unfortunate happen?'
Jason smiled wryly and replied: 'Michelle almost died. I'm pretty sure she saw her life flashing before her eyes. The illusions caught us off-guard and the devil's were too fast. That's why.'
Even though the report was brief and has less details, Raven could more or less understand what took place in here. Judging from the remnant corpses of the other devils, it wouldn't take a genius to find out that the team had a hard time dealing with the devils earlier.
Thinking about this caused him to be reminded of something…
'Oh yeah, I heard the devil screeching earlier. Get everyone on guard, we don't know that's a dying wail or a call for reinforcements.' Raven's words caused Jason to visibly shook.
There was an expression of panic on his face as he immediately got the attention of the team, saying: ”Guys, be on guard. The devil earlier must've called for reinforcements with its last screech!”
His warning caused the team to stop on their tracks, their expressions changed as they took out their weapons and became alert. The spying team observed their surroundings even further, glaring at each spot in order to make sure that they won't be ambushed.
”Spotted! Holy shit! They're moving underground! Be on guard everyone!” Edward exclaimed as he glared beneath him.
Thankfully it wasn't only him who could see under ground, Raven warped his vision to cover underground and saw the several figures moving as if they were diving in water.
”I see five too - shit! They's splitting!” Edward exclaimed at the sudden development.
”One on each direction, the last one will try to pop-up in the middle of our group.” Raven swiftly move, sending beams of Cosmic Energy to five different spots around the team. ”That's where they're going to appear. I'll give the signal when and where they will pop-out, you guys confront them. Get into position!”
Raven gave out instructions swiftly as they truly have no time. Even if they were moving underground, the speed of these Devils remained the same. Just a few seconds from now and they will arrive.
The unit member got into the position, holding their weapons tight as they waited for Raven's signal. And even though Mira was feeling absolutely irritated to be ordered by him, she understood that now is not the time for any of that, so she too got in the position.
Raven and Jason was at the center marker. Mira and the Crawford Twins were at the Eastern marker, Floyd and Nelson was the West marker. Juniper and Edward and Anthony was at the Northern marker, and Ryan as well as Franklin was at the Southern marker.
Three seconds passed as they already heard Raven yell: ”East! Two, one, NOW!”
*Boom!*
”South! Two, one! Now!”
*Boom!*