Chapter 22 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 9 (2/2)

[Bait... Or decoy...?] Mouro wondered.

”Hm?” Mouro suddently felt something. He rolled to the side.

*Bang*

The energy bullet created a little charred crater where he was.

He stood up and ran toward the edge of his platform and jumped.

Beneath him was the abysmal hole that led to deeper into the mine, the jump he made to the other platform that was just at his side, was a jump of almost 10 meters.

He swiftly changed the sniper in his hands to the grappling hook and shot it at the Erchius Crystals above him. The hook got stuck at one of the crystals and he skillfully swinged all the way toward the other platform.

*Bang, bang, bang...*

Multiple shot coming from the energy sniper was following his trail as he swinged and changed his position to dodge the bullets.

He retrieved the grappling hook and took out his Tungsten Sniper Rifle. He localized Lenny and started to return the fire.

*Bang, bang...*

It was at this moment that he realized that he had negligentied John.

He took a glance at his life detector and saw that John was swiftly approaching from behind him.

He stored his sniper and took out a Tier 2 Tungsten Pistol from his inventory.

*Bang, bang...*

He fired toward the hallway and jumped to side while preparing to use his grappling hook once again.

*Bang*

A new shot coming from Lenny, but this time Lenny had aimed for the grappling hook.

The energy bulled sent the grappling hook flying out of Mouro's hands.

Mouro turned around and decided to go in for close combat against John so that it could make it hard for Lenny to shoot.

He used his pistol in one hand and a knife in the other.

The moment John emerged from the entrance he had to immediately take a defensive stance to block the slash coming from Mouro's knife.

Mouro proceeded to use his Pistol to fire at John.

*Bang*

John dodged in time and the bullet only scratched his arm.

John gave a roundabout kick toward Mouro while using his guns to fire at him.

*Bang, bang*

The pistols' bullets were dodged by Mouro, but he has hit by the kick and he was thrown a few steps backward.

*Bang*

Lenny took the chance once John and Mouro were separated to take another shot.

*Fisst*

The bullet penetrated the place where Mouro's armor wasn't covering, the arm. A charred hole was soon present in his arm.

*Bang*

Mouro groaned in pain, but still was able to take a clean shot at John that still had to take time to recover his position after a roundabout kick.