Chapter 82: {Dance Of Duels} (1/2)

Chapter 82: {Dance Of Duels}

At the Red Circle --

"What the-," The elite beside Joe, his personal bodyguard, watched Joe fall to the ground with the dirk jutting sticking out of his heart

Where had this attack come fro surprised the Elites, not to rammed into their helmets A stab to the back like this would not ht perimeter the Elite squadrons had drawn up

The only explanation was an Alter with a concealh to avoid even higher end AC scanning

The elite's training instincts kicked in and he adapted, suppressing his imun at where the knife wielder would be

"assu coun He could see that the knife was being wielded by soe mass of hazy darkness that now started to solidify into…the shape of a skeleton?

"Mutant class Alter Skeletal appearance Concealet!" The Elite leader fired at the skeleton, setting his Hydra rifle to assault ility, backflipping and soh the skeleton was fast, the Hydra's auto aim systeracefulits legs to disable its round as the rest of the Elites stood in trios where they were back-to-back froets that had conceal

"Who are you!?" said the leader as he stepped forwards at the legless, purple cloaked skeleton With a swift flicking ht at the leader's head

The leaderhis head to the side With Joe dead, his potent stim boost would fade over time, but as of now, it was still nearly in full force,the leader's reactions and physicals

The leader quickly reloaded and shot into the skeleton's head, boring a multitude of holes into it The skeleton, however, was unfazed by its half blown off skull and leaped into the air by pushi+ng off the ground with its hands

With a swat of his gun, the leader ed to knock the skeleton back down He calmly analyzed the situation The skeleton was very likely some kind of mutant class Alter who had a concealy made it so that the body was just pure bone and holloithin, and in these cases, the best solution was absolute destruction of the main body

"Switch to incendiary!" shouted the leader as he willed his weapon to change The sun to the back of his helhts to control the gun

A red light shone at the gun's barrel before he fired again, and this time, the bullets exploded into wreaths of flame upon contact with the skeleton The skeleton writhed forwards before growing still, its dry bones breaking apart under the flames

"Ahh!"

"Man down! Man down!"

The leader i the rest of his squad Two ed out with dirks wielded again by skeletons

"Where did they come from!?" said the leader

"No idea! They just…they just appeared!"

"Gun them down! Before they disappear!"

In an instant, several Hydra rifle barrels lit up as they unleashed incendiary rounds, thoroughly blowing apart and burning the skeletons

"What are these things!? They slipped through all our scans, and even when they're dead, they don't register any cell count!" said an Elite, confusion and fear starting to crack through their training as they faced the unknown, enenore any of the rules they knew

'I wish I fucking knew,' thought the leader as he thought about what to do He committed to a decision quickly

"Retreat! We don't know sht about these things! Report back to HQ!" said the leader

"I'" A woh the air, and all the Elites iuns and pointed towards the entrance of the Red Circle

There, a hauntingly beautiful wo with the leaed white smile in a hint of crimson

"AC count zero!" said an Elite

A civilian? Out here? What? The leader paused for a briefhis concerns away There was no time for hesitation here