302 Blitz offensive 2 (1/2)
Waking up with a serious hangover to a loud alarm, it took Lux a few seconds to realize what was going on. As Lux's awareness returned to her fully, she found herself in the middle of a king sized bed inside what appeared to be a luxury penthouse hotel suite, trashed with countless empty bottles of hard liquor and passed out party guests.
(Ah, right.)
Starting to remember parts of the previous night as she started rapidly sobering up, Lux momentarily ignored the loud alarm which blared in full force. After bar hopping for quite some time Lux had eventually made her way to a high class club where she quickly had made new friends while drinking like a qiton, after they were eventually kicked out of that club, Lux had proclaimed that they would continue their party at the most expensive hotel room on the planet and using her limitless hellwalker credit card that was quickly handled. With her memories sorted out, Lux then focused on the alarm which was slowly waking the other party guests up as it continued blaring at full power, from what she could figure it seemed to be a general call for evacuation only used doing crisis and from what news bulletins reported it seemed to be planet wide alert.
(IMI, status?)
[HOSTILES INSIDE THE WIRE, GENERAL ALERT. EMERGENCE PRESENCE DETECTED PLANETSIDE, EXTREME CASUALTIES REPORTED.]
(... How the hell did they get planetside without us noticing?)
[UNKNOWN.]
”What the fuck?”
Getting updated on the current situation through her neural uplink, Lux rapidly sobered up as she found her baggage, quickly getting her rifle out and loading a magazine as the other guests seemed to have woken up and started panicking.
”What the?!-”
”Everyone, make your way to the shelters immediately!”
Taking control of the situation before an all out panic started, all attention quickly gathered on Lux.
”I need to work now, move like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
Activating her mana forge and interface at full power, Lux quickly located the closest exit, the balcony, and jumped out of it without hesitation. Falling from the 70th floor, Lux used the time she was falling to contact Dax while preparing a spell which would keep her from splatting out on the pavement.
”What's the situation?”
[Unknown, all gravitational sensors went haywire 50 seconds ago, looks like the Emergence got its hands on more lost technology. Make your way to the event and suppress it before we suffer further casualties, weapons free.]
”Roger.”
Having received her orders, Lux's eyes went cold as she covered them with a Reaper facemask, quickly making her way towards downtown where the Emergence ground forces had suddenly appeared along with a strange gravitational anomaly.
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”R-run away!”
”The drones aren't moving, what the hell is going on!?”
(Tch, useless.)
Finding the local defence force utterly routed as their drones had started malfunctioning, Lux did the bare minimum survey of the street level battle for friendly forces before she pointed her rifle at a group of Emergence tanks which were advancing up the street towards the fleeing people behind her.
”Howitzer, loop armour pricing, semi armour pricing.”
[DIRECTIVE CONFIRMED, LOOPING SPELL CREATION ONLINE, SCRIPT READY FOR EXECUTION.]
Switching her rifle to semi automatic, Lux aimed at the closest organic looking Emergence tank and squeezed the trigger. As the single round of armour pricing left the rifle barrel it was surrounded by a series of barriers made out of transparent mana crystals which lengthened the projectile and increased its speed up until the point it came into contact with the Emergence tank, hitting the outer armour the anti tank howitzer spell configuration first functioned like a tandem high explosive anti tank warhead, creating multiple plasma lances to carve through the outer layers of reactive tank armour as the shell continued making its way into the tank, when it reached the centre the shell then blew up and created a bright explosion, transforming the Emergence tank into pieces of superheated shrapnel which flew out in every direction and quickly caused havoc among the Emergence forces, not that Lux paid any attention to that as she was already picking out her next target.