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

"Gun her down!" said the leader with no remorse

Several Hydra rifles clattered as they fired their rounds

In an instant, the woiant shi+eld? A cross shaped shi+eld of black metal and bone She stood behind this shi+eld, and all the bullets pattered against the shi+eld like raindrops on a car

S forwards in a tidal wave of darkness that quickly covered everyone The smoke was not ordinary, it was more accurately described as a cloud of pure darkness

Within this inky cover of dark, visibility was limited to just a few feet ahead

The leader tapped angrily at his hel worked In fact, everything see His helmet's UI started to crackle and distort as it shut off

"Argh!" Sparks sputtered from the back of all the Elites' helmets as their smartlink to their weapons was forcibly severed They iuns, coy

All those thousands upon thousands of credits spent on I and scanning and sone just like that

This left the Elites stranded with just their own bodies and minds to ith They were even cut off from communications as they relied on built in coe where everyone was always linked in soh their weapons, this co, like they had lost a fundamental part of themselves

"Get out! Get out!" The leader could not see anything that was going on, but he knew that now et hismission to execute the upstart Red Circle was quickly devolving into a nightmare of unforeseen consequences

Screae unfire showcased…variants

Variants had been unleashed upon the Elites

How had they been controlled? Where had they been caged?

The leader asked these questions but knew he could not find answers He looked around frantically, sweat pouring down his forehead as he felt his breathing accelerate in panic Everytiunfire, he turned around to see as happening, and there, illuet torn apart one by one

An Alpha Striker leaped atop an Elite fro his throat apart It s to other variants the locations of the rest of the soldiers A Big-arely crushed his skull

One Elite screahly acidic blood spray of a Bloodspitter Lizard

Gunfire echoed chaotically, but without auto-ai shot for any of the Elites to now hit their targets

There were creatures the Elites had no idea about as well A giant, hulking rowths all over his body and protruding tusks that wielded a giant club of fused es and spines with each blow

More living skeletons

The leader abandoned all pretense of trying to save his men at this point and ran He sprinted away as fast as he could, the screa as motivation for hi in this sh, he would reach the convoys, and there, he could make his escape -

"Gah!" the leader fell backwards as he slaun up instinctively, trying to see what had hit hi down It's quite rude to point a weapon at a lady, you know?" The wo visible as she neared the leader

Before the leader could pull the trigger, the woman hadher hand around the barrel of the Hydra rifle and yanking it away fro, and she easily overpowered the leader

"I don't like these things," said the wo red "They're so…iht, press a button, and then kill But where is the fun in that? You lose out on ripping and tearing your foes using your own bare strength Isn't that so boring?"

The leader switched to his secondary pistol and fired shots at the woet out two shots that scraped across her skin before the wo crushi+ng force that very quickly shattered his forearan to beg "Let o! J-Joe's dead, that's all that matters to you, isn't it!? I'm just a footsoldier!"

"Yes, and are not soldiers supposed to be ready to lay down their lives? It coo of the leader's ar, clawed black nails

"Gh-guh" The leader tried to speak but could only gurgle as blood sputtered fro neck before he fell over, blood pooling from beneath him

"Kill them all," said Valera to the undead left to her control from her dear master "No survivors… But leave their corpses intact" She then put a hand to her forehead, checking up on the others -