Chapter 383 Kei going into action (1/2)
Oliver and the others were shooting at Hektor who was now using a similar strategy to Richter's. Basically, he was blocking all the attacks that were aimed at his head, and he doesn't bother with everything else. With the nanomachines, all attacks that don't detach his body parts, and were not aimed at the head were almost ineffective. It was like they were fighting an immortal fighter.
Hektor was also having fun as he pounded away at Oliver, Niel, and Sayaka. Though it wasn't really a one-sided fight, seeing as all of Hektor's wounds were healing while the members of the Mercenary Club retained their injuries, it looked like a one-sided fight.
Hektor's damage was only some bullet holes in his pants and a bit of his uniform, but no real damage to his body. On the other hand, the Mercenary Club members had numerous bruises here and there.
Emily who was not taking part in the fight, as she was fiddling with something. Everyone thought she was still trying to hack into the system to stop the missiles, but instead, she was doing something else. Emily then shouted to the group, ”Everyone catch this!” Emily proceeded to toss something to the others. Hektor obviously didn't want them to receive whatever was tossed, so he charged forward but was stopped by Oliver.
The thing Emily tossed were earpieces, upon getting them, each member placed the earpiece on the right ear.
”Testing, testing, does everyone hear me?” All the members heard Emily's voice and responded. Once she got the confirmation she needed, Emily continued to speak. ”I'm going to say this now, I won't be able to make it in time. The only option we have now is killing that b*stard.”
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When Kei heard what Emily said he inhaled and then exhaled deeply. After that, he started moving while looking for a better position. Once he got to higher ground Kei got a better look of the fight. He then proceeded to watch everyone's movement without saying anything.
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Rachel who was watching at the sidelines felt her body was now a bit okay. So she then forced herself to use RELEASE, she didn't use full RELEASE since she knew that the moment she did that death was the only path from thereon. Still, after using RELEASE Rachel felt like she could only hold this state for about thirty minutes before she'll once again be unable to fight for a duration of time.
'Doesn't matter what happens to me next, I need to help now!'
Rachel who was inactive throughout the fight except for shooting now and then finally joined in the melee. The moment Hektor saw Rachel getting close to him, he felt a bit frightened. Even though he wasn't the one who experienced it, he did see how Rachel pulverized his clone. Watching an almost perfect copy of him being beaten down by a girl more than half his age was a little bit frustrating as well as a tiny bit frightening.
Still, Hektor knew that among the members of the Mercenary Club, he shouldn't let Rachel get a hit in. This person's attacks were meant to be one-hit kill type of attacks. Among the current people here she held the strongest attacking power. Everything else she had was below him, but only her power outclassed even the original Hektor's power. Unknown to Hektor Rachel wasn't in full RELEASE meaning her power that he imagined wasn't as strong.
Hektor didn't bother to deflect Rachel's attack and instead evade it, allowing Sayaka to be able to stab another dagger onto his back. Unfortunately for them, Sayaka's strength wasn't enough to pierce through Hektor's armor nor his thick muscles.
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Kei who was watching from afar was finally able to formulate a plan in his head. ”Everyone please follow my orders from here on out. Please, guys, I want you all to trust me in this.”
At first, no one responded, so Kei thought that these prideful mercs wouldn't listen to him. In truth among all of them he had the weakest presence, was nowhere near as good as them, and he was the least respected. Well, that's what he thought.
”Hello Kei, why aren't you saying anything? I thought you're about to give us orders?” Emily's voice could be heard in the earpiece, not only her the others started talking as well.
”So what's the plan Kei?”
”What do you want me to do?”