Chapter 100: Knightly Intervention (1/2)

Chapter 100: Knightly Intervention

After thirtywet ed with pain that wracked hi in its coolness He felt that if he closed his eyes for just a few more seconds, he would drift away, forever away into a sleep fro

But he could not do that

Not now

Not ever

Minute iron, his own blood, in his mouth, and put power into his body He leaped back onto his feet with surprising agility as he sucked in breaths He put a hand over his stoashes threatened to widen with every one of his ht shoulder had been torn into with achunk of his developed deltoid muscle

In front of hirinned at hiht arm isted backwards at the joint, dislocated frorey scales around its neck and chest were bashed in, lined with countless cracks of iashes and tears in its flesh indicated where Minuteman had thrown his shi+eld and drawn blood Three of its fins were reduced to s with seared flesh - the result of Minutee in his shi+eld

"Not looking too good, are we?" said Minuteman He looked down at a puddle of rainwater and his own blood He saw his own bruised, bloodied, battered body "But guess I'm even worse off"

"Grah," said the shark variant It pointed at Minute where Minuteot me, so what about it?" said Minuteman

The shark variant turned to one of the fishmen and waved it forward When the fishmen neared, the shark variant reached out and viciously bit the fish its claws into the fishreat strip of its flexible skin and scales It then tossed the skin towards Minuteman's feet

"Grah Grah" The shark variant motioned to its stomach

"You want ht more?" Minuteman looked at the bloody strip of red scaled skin He reached down and picked it up before tying it around his stoht to seal his injuries shut and prevent his intestines froence…" Minuteman was astounded Variants that communicated like this to people were extremely rare, limited mostly to cases of parasitic variants that took over human minds That a variant had independently evolved to be able to co on in the world?

Why were the variants evolving so much?

And was this related to why they were attacking so often?

The ground rumbled as the vault doors oscillated

"Thanks," said Minuteman as he smiled "But time's up I've won"

The shark variant cocked its head as it stared at the ground, wondering as going on Soar door opened up in the ground with the groaning of heavyfor the first time in decades

Then, Minute up Miles had gotten the carrier to work, too Noas just athe civilians inside out

"Rah!" The shark variant thrust its clawed hand out, ate the sound, and hordes of fishh

With a booround, its huge bulk likely packed to the brihts shone out froines es The cylindrical structure of the engines spun rapidly, processing poith crackling electricity

Minuteman let the fishet there in tih up in the air, and with a burst of power, speeding away The skies had cleared up, too Halfway through Minutee storuaranteed the carrier's safety

The fishar, but inside, they would only face heroes to rebuff them and reinforce Minuteht Instead, he heard a medley of screams fill the air Screams of desperation and terror and pain

"Civilians!?" Minuteman immediately whirled around and started to sprint towards the hangar

"fuck those idiot heroes!" roared Minute with every step his injuries cry out in agony He knehat had happened -

The heroes had left behind all the civilians just to evacuate themselves That massive carrier could carry two hundred people inside of it, enough for all the civilians but not enough for the heroes So instead, the twenty or so heroes had decided to take the plane for themselves and leave two hundred lives to die

They could not afford to save even a single person once they committed to this plan because if they did, they took with them a survivor to report on their behavior later

They did not want any witnesses

Minuteer as it sprinted towards hi to continue their duel Frohty footsteps, he could tell it was going to gain on hiar