Chapter 72：Playing tag (1/2)
”Sylvia! Are you okay? Don't give up, we're almost there!” Shouted the man — pilot of the bird.
He knitted his thick brows, and his sharp eyes with azure pupils were filled with worries; sweats were flying from his spiky red hair that dangled in the air caused by the wind pressure, and his long pointed nose twitched. His swollen muscles were unnoticed by his slightly tanned skin; in his mouth, he was grating his teeth.
The unshaven beard was settling on his chin.
He was wearing a sweated dark red t-shirt doubled with a padded vest of red color as well, it was paired with combat trousers. He was wearing combat boots on his feet. Both pieces of equipment were made of good quality materials with fairly high resistance from physical and magical attacks.
”Y-Yeah, s-somehow, Jun.” Said the person in grave voice who was lying horizontally on top of the bird and behind the pilot.
Her chocolate-colored hair that is tied at the back was fluttering caused by the wind. At the moment, her features look pale. Even her lips had faded colors. The dark circles below her eyes gave off a hint of how weak she was at the moment.
Swoosh! The bird they were riding glided to the left behind the 4-story building.
Jun felt relieved at her reply.
But.
”Damn it, those assholes chase even here!” Swear Jun under his breath.
Swoosh! Another bird glided closer to Jun's bird. Rode on it was a girl, and a man was well-tied on the back the same as Sylvia's situation.
”Jun, Sylvia! Are you okay?!” Worriedly asked the girl pilot rode on another bird. Her black hair with highlights of pink was tied in a pigtail. She also has lovely big eyes, pointed small nose, rosy lips, and cute face.
She was wearing a pink fitted suit toppled with a black vest and black shorts.
”We managed to evade at the last second! Where are the others?!” Jun replied.
Because of the wind pressure, they had to shout in order to converse. Most of them had knitted their brows and frowned to fight back the pressure that was caressing their skin.
Actually, they could converse using communication features in their Cyber Screen. But right now, they were conserving their deity's battery.
”They turned right, we will reunite them after we pass this residential area!” Shouted the girl pilot.
”Okay! By the way, Sierra, how's Pol?!” Jun nodded and asked in a loud voice.
The girl named Sierra glanced at her back and signaled a thumbs-up to Jun while saying, ”Still unconscious, but he was breathing!” Sierra replied in a mischievous manner.
Jun sighed in relief and glanced at his back yet he widened his eyes.
”The heck! Watch out!” He shouted a warning.
Swooooooosh! ~~~~Bang! Another line of azure light trailed towards them. It went straight and hit the building in front.
Debris fell down from the broken part of the building.
”Hehehe! The rats managed to evade, boss!” One of the people covered in dark blue cloths jibed.
”Tsk!” The leader of the group clicked his tongue.
Fortunately, Jun was able to maneuver to his right. He also saw Sierra glided to her left. The both of them went into the opposite directions and twirl around the 4-story building.
Many people below were shouting.
Some were taking videos using their MTMD's. But magicians mostly use their Cyber Screen to record it.
”Damn it! Who are those people??!” Angry shouts of one of the residents below.
”I believe they were magicians from the academy! But I don't know those people who are chasing after them!”
”Oh my god! They even intruded here in the city at this time of the day!”
”Are they from another academy's magicians?”
”No one knows about that. Since they were disguising themselves!”
”Gosh! They were firing high-level magic without consent!”
”Call for military guards!”
”Are you an idiot?! Do you think it's easy to get a hand of a Transpo bird? Even if they come, they could only watch below together with us!”
”Fucktards! It's better than doing nothing!”
”I agree. Let them work!”
”Hump! Their work is to balloon their bellies! They could not even catch a single thief who stole my husband's underwear!”
”Ah, this morning I woke up and saw male underwear beside me but I didn't steal it! I promise!” Shouts a guy with thick makeup on his face.
”Damn gay!”
”.....”
”Hey, guys look!”
”What is that?”
”Is that a monster?”
”Oh no!”
Such noisy shouts coming from the people below. They suddenly focused their cameras on a mysterious individual running and jumping from building to building at a high-speed going towards the directions of the bird riders.
”Holy shit! What kind of monster is that?”
Jun didn't even recognize these people. They suddenly attack their group while they were resting in the woods after completing a mission of killing a fierce beast that wrecked a village located to the east of this city.
They tried to fight back since they have the number advantage.
However, most of them had already exhausted their mana and stamina before the battle started, hence, they were barely able to return fire.
Jun had no choice but to order a retreat when half of them fell wounded together with their two most trusted medic magicians.
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After Jun succeeded in evading the azure light attack, he proceeded to maneuver the bird in full speed, trying to lost the enemies.
Three members of the people from the enemy side chased after Jun, and the other two went to chase Sierra.
The enemies were raining fires at them. Jun had no way to return the fire and focused himself on evading.
Jun stole a glance at the back and saw a red hot flame shot towards him.
He hastily maneuvered the bird to descend; yet, he noticed an azure light shot below. Jun grated his teeth and disregarded his initial plan and chose to increase his speed while crouching his head on the bird's back.
The flame passed by a hair's breadth away from his head, his scalp could even feel the burning aura of it.
Abruptly, he glided to his left because another high-level magic was coming to his way.
Weng, weeeeng, weeeeeeng! A wind cutter attack was fast approaching him! It was a spinning crescent moon-shaped.
This attack was no doubt could easily slice him in half!
Jun felt he could not avoid it by simply swinging left and right. He strengthened his grip on the bird's rope and forcefully maneuvered it.
The Peon bird hid its wings and dove free falling on the ground. Because of this, he was able to avoid the wind cutter attack and it passed above them while leaving sharp spinning sounds behind.