531 The Bone Armored Brothers, The Battle at Audubon High School (1/2)
Day 129 - 10:23 AM - Audubon High School, Audubon, Camden County, New Jersey, United States of America
The sudden appearance of an entity covered in black haze and wielding a black scythe caused the people nearby to freeze. It was even more shocking for the mutator whose attack got blocked with ease.
None of them were able to tell where the entity came from.
The entity just appeared out of nowhere to block the lethal attack that was aimed at the old man.
As for the old man, he could only stare in front, wide-eyed. His reaction was not surprising, considering that two lethal weapons clashed just several inches away from his face. The loud metallic sound from the clash that entered his ears was far more than enough to shake his soul.
Realizing that he was just a few inches away from his death, the old man subconsciously stepped back in fright and ended up falling unto his bottom.
Luckily, someone blocked the attack for him. If not, the old man was nothing but a corpse now.
As his attack was blocked, the leader of the enemies immediately retreated, jumping backward at fast speeds.
At first, the leader thought that it was a helper from the military that blocked his attack. But a single glance at the surprised and cautious soldiers told him that this entity that blocked his attack was not from the military.
”Who are you?!” The leader shouted. ”Why are you barging into our business?!”
But then, he noticed, the entity that blocked his attack was not paying attention.
”You okay, old man?”
They all heard him asked the old man that fell behind him.
”Ah?” The old man was surprised and hurriedly stood up. ”Ah, yes. Thank you for saving me.”
”Damn it!” The leader cursed. ”How dare you ignore me!”
He kicked the ground once more, vanishing from everyone's sight. His movement speed was definitely something else as a human's naked eye could not follow it.
***
”Old man, you should retreat first.”
Mark said to the old man.
It was quite close. If Mark did not arrive early, even if Felicia found her father, what she would see was nothing but a corpse with a smashed head.
CLANG!
Another loud metallic sound echoed as he blocked another attack with a frown.
As another attack of his was blocked, the leader retreated once more.
Mark could not help but frown. The strength of level two Mutators could not be trifled with. The first one he encountered was specialized in defense. This one was in speed.
This guy's speed was too fast that even Mark could barely follow his movements. If not for the fact that he could detect him using his [Empathic Detection], Mark might not be able to block the attacks accurately.
Even the Jersey Devil called Gregor that he encountered before was specialized in speed, and Mark was not able to do about the guy's escape.
”Well, I guess it's time to power up.”
Mark murmured.
He had a lot of crystals to choose from, but he had never consumed another. With the appearance of the level two mutators, he should need something to complement this physical weakness he found out.
”This guy's mutation is not bad.”
He continued to murmur as his eyes landed at the enemy in front of him. Besides, this guy's black bone armor was kinda cool-looking.
TANG! CLANG!
Two more loud sounds echoed as Mark blocked two more attacks from the enemy.
BANG!
Another sound followed. This time, it was the sound of Mark's scythe, hitting the enemy's body.
Because of the impact, the enemy flew to the side. He managed to land on his feet but still slid for about two meters before stopping. Furthermore, the enemy leader was still unscathed because of his armor.
The leader was even more frustrated. He could not land any attack on the entity that appeared, but he got hit instead.
Well, at least now, the leader got Mark's attention.
”F*CK!”
”You're asking who I am, right?” Mark spoke. ”I'm just a passing-through Kame- ahem. I'm just someone passing by. That's it.”
Mark ended his words by brandishing his scythe. He turned into a surge of black mist that moved at fast speeds.
CLANG!
”GAHA!”
The enemy leader shouted in pain as a heavy blow hit his side. The armor might be hard to penetrate or slash, but it did not mean that his organs inside his body would not be rattled by strong attacks. Furthermore, as he was able to move at fast speeds and capable of evading bullets, he was not used to getting hit at all.
”Brother! Stop hiding and help!”
The leader suddenly shouted, making everyone alarmed. That same shout also seemed to have raised the morale of the enemies.
”You said that you can handle this, but now, you are calling for me.”
A contemptuous voice was heard by everyone. Everyone hurriedly looked for the source.
Unexpectedly, the voice came from a man sitting atop one of the military's parked tanks.
None of them saw how or when he infiltrated the ranks of the soldiers. Without a doubt, this man was stronger than the leader of the group that was currently attacking.
The soldiers near the man immediately aimed their guns and fired.
Before any bullets could hit the man, however, he vanished.
The next thing that everyone saw was the fountain of blood after the closest group of soldiers around the man were all beheaded. Although the soldiers had bulletproof protection around their neck, it was not able to stop the man from slicing off their heads.
Furthermore, the man did not even transform. He only had the claws on his right hand and nothing else. Yet, none of them saw how he did it.
”Just where the hell did these strong people come from.”
One of the soldiers could not help but speak. Although they were still battling with the members of the enemies outside the walls, the sudden appearance of two party-crashers could not help but take their attention.
Not waiting for anything, Mark turned into a puff of black mist and surged towards the new enemy.
CLANG!