Chapter 343 (1/2)
Book 3, Chapter 79 – Technological Fighting Force
Raven made his dark promise as twenty men rushed into the lab eapons ready They arrayed themselves before their leader in a serade rifles
The lab becalass and sparks as bullets tore the place apart
Concentrated rifle fire obliterated everything in the enclosed space The best fighters in the wasteland wouldn't be able to protect themselves from as tantamount to a wall of hot lead Most of the unfortunate souls in the roohters, either, but scientists who didn't kno to defend the fish in a barrel would be more difficult
Cloudhaas fast enough to grab hellflower, and the two huddled behind the thick exaunfire puive
Cloudhawk scowled “All this fuckin' noise!”
Quiet!
He snapped his fingers and a fory spread out to fill half the laboratory The assassins looked around as they struggled to understand the sudden, inexplicable circumstance
Their weapons were firing – they could tell by the kick-back and muzzle flare – but there was no sound at all The bullets ricocheted through the roo It was like someone just shut off the volume
It wasn't a power from any relic This time thephenomenon, for never in recorded history had any demonhunter been able to use a relic's poithout the tool itself Su acco able to communicate A flaw that maybe he could exploit
Sure enough, as they continued to fire that flaw revealed itself
Cloudhawk reached over the gurney and flung eight h the air fast as any bullet, faster than anyone could believe, and each one found a target
Was this guy omniscient?! He didn't even need to aim!
He wasn't, of course He had to aim, but not necessarily with the help of his eyes Mounold swept by that opened the throats of several more
Oddball's dagger-like wings ripped through soft flesh without effort It came at Cloudhawk's beck and call as he reached out to for itself on eboncrys the sy and flew almost faster than the eye could follow At that speed, skin was separated like wet paper
It stopped for just the blink of an eye and beat its tiny wings Glittering, golden feathers fanned out in a deadly semi-circle!
hellflower craned her neck over the table to see as happening Twenty assassins were now rapidly cooling corpses, in just a round with ht more were bled dry from holes in their throats The rest had been killed by feathers
So fast! How quickly the tables had turned!
Raven stood before the doorway like an iron tower, unriht was over two htly shorter than Raven
A red light flickered in the man's dark eyes “Kill them”
But of course, there was no sound Still the large e
They ca shadows, outfitted differently fro on their head like loves to their boots were all made of hting force comparable if very different from the artistry of elite elysian warriors The armor these men as simple in appearance, but exceptional in function
They uns were raised their way
They were not noruns, either Rocket launchers!
Cloudhawk narrowed his eyes, tracking the trajectory of their gunfire Wrapping an arm around hellflower's waist he crouched low, then exploded into the air He leaped safely frourney to another bit of cover
hellfloas not idly flung around She drew her pistols and tightened her grip
These were high-grade weapons dug up from ruins of the ancient world They were unique in that their projectiles weren't propelled by gunpowder, but electronetic current sped up the bullets to incredible speed before releasing them, which in turn made them far more destructive
She fired off a volley with incredible speed!
The rockets spat from the tech unit's weapons where struck in midair Sparks, explosions, shrapnel – the lab was a battlefield but still rerave The armor-clad behemoths stumbled from the blasts
hellflower followed up with two quick shots at Raven They struck, but didn't seeainst a nearby wall In the space of a few seconds the assassins had lost their advantage, and now found themselves in a difficult position
Years of wandering the wastes had o when Cloudhawknow In addition, her new guns could blow holes in three inch steel plating There was no reason why Raven could have survived With him dead the others weren't any concern
But he wasn't dead
Raven's cloak of thin, metallic feathers had deflected her bullets The drasten – much sturdier than normal armor The cloth material itself was soainst piercing blows The coainst hellflower's high-velocity shots Raven probably wore more armor underneath
Metal feathers chi about the guy thatabout him that was not normal
Noaround, the Warden was a man of action Phase, become invisible, move in close, attack
The lab was still encased in a shell of soundlessness With that and his invisible, formless body Cloudhaas impossible to detect as he moved toward the tech soldiers He shoved his exorcist rod into theh it as the phase field dropped The explosion of force ripped through the soldier and sent hi doll