Chapter 121: From Despair, Hope (2/2)

"Yes sir!" ca shout

Seismic breathed in, then breathed out He closed his eyes, looked up, then opened the everything He pointed at the he rarely ever did: smiled

"Son, no, James, this…is for you I'll make you proud If…if I never co," With that, Seisain as he jumped dozens of meters in the air, his fist cocked back and a white sphere encased around it

Again, the Locus did not react, instead only watching Seisainst it

As with Mel, the instant before Seismic's fist made contact with the Locus, it evaded, its body wreathed in an aura of crackling blue energy as it instantly moved to the side

Seis the Locus entirely

"…Slow," said the Locus

Seismic, with his enhanced senses, had heard the Locus speak with Mel, so he was not surprised

"And you are stupid," said Seisround around theed out from Seismic's quake power, and as the Locus lost its balance frorabbed the creature into an expertly perfor its superspeed

All the while, Seis shockwaves to continuously ravage the Locus's body from within and keep it pinned to Seis force

Seismic and the Locus free fell into the deep fissure

The defenders closest to the yawning sinkhole rushed over to the edge, trying to see Seis its thin hands over Seis its neck

Waves of shockwave energy continuously washed over the Locus, cracking its shell are blue blood to spurt out everywhere Before Seismic and the Locus fell so deep that darkness sucked them up, the Locus spurted blood from its mouth as the shell around its throat cracked

"He did it! Seis shout

"That's an A ranker for you! Sht, when this is over, Seiset promoted back to A+, hell, he should be in the S class!"

"With the Locus gone, these sea freaks are gonna start running with their tails behind their legs!"

"My family - they're safe!"

Cheers and declarations of victory echoed like wildfire around the human defenders

Ten seconds passed The cheers started to grow quieter

Twenty seconds There was only pure silence now

Thirty seconds Silence crystallizing intodread

Then - despair

The earth ruround rising up and round treht Seismic had landed the final blow

Seisround and knocking a Fraot up, but when he saw Seisaping hole in Seisnition The bracers around his arans had been completely turned blackened, and his bones were charred into near ash

He was dead And no Restorer was going to bring him back from that

Their only hope, the A ranker, the one, reduced to nothing round shuddered again, but this ti march of the entire variant ar to the despair of all humans that the Locus was not dead either

Gunfire and explosives resuain, but this was just the final desperate efforts of prey before they fell to the jaws of death

In everyone's earpieces, the panicked cries of the flying heroes buzzed through

"We're losing ground here! Our barrier Creators are dead! We're getting outgunned! They're going to nated leader of the flyers "Rocket Man's been downed - we need support-,"

Moth beside Seismic's body took down the helmet of his frame and silenced co tidal wave of variants and shook his head He saw as explosions rocked their ranks, but it was like scooping out shovelfuls of sand in an entire beach

At the head of this charge was the leader of the crab tank It took tank shots to its body and face directly, and all that did wasits bloodthirsty advance

"It's over," said the policeun He could hear the sounds of people running behind hiet swarmed They would all die All their families, all the lives they had built up, washed away just like that -

The king crab variant juht towards the policeman The shadow of its enormous body cast over the police for death

It never cah the air, and the policeman opened his eyes

What looked like a humanoid monster stood in front of hi, bloody veins and patches lining it Three horns of black and bone jutted fro red eye

This was a terrible, terribledeath down the policeazed at it

But the monster was not there to kill him, no -

The monster's arm, covered in thick coils of raw, exposedlike a shi+eld that blocked the king crab variant's pincer slaled against the new monster to no avail

"W-what!?" The police before him

"You've lost your will to live just like that? After all the sacrifice you've seen for your sake? Pick up your gun Fight" A co voice resonated outwards froained his wits and realized that this was no monster, it was a man

A man in some form of arnize was his authority

That voice projected with authority Authority borne from power

The same kind of authority that Seismic himself had carried in his voice

Tears welled up in the policeman's eyes as he stared at the black are of Seis with the arrit his teeth and drew together his will