Chapter 2817 - Madness (1/2)
A total of seven heavily-armed guards opened fire on Ves! They all acted in unison and without warning!
The good news was that not every guard was in on the scheme. Thirteen more infantry soldiers from the Planetary Guard reacted with stunned shock at the unprovoked actions of their colleagues.
Why did they act without authorization?! Who told them to attack their foreign guest?!
”We must wash away the humiliation of our defeat!”
”Don’t let him leave this arena alive!”
”Watch out for the cat!”
The rogue guards wearing heavy organic suits were hardly holding back in their attacks. They prioritized taking out the patriarch of the Larkinson Clan at all costs!
Due to the relative proximity of Venerable Jannzi, they refrained from utilizing any destructive area weapons, but that did not restrain them much as their biorifles were already potent enough by themselves!
Numerous positron beams, gauss rounds and explosive shells impacted Ves from the front!
”AHHH!” The poorly-protected form of Vincent uselessly raised his arms while desperately commanding his hover chair to move away. ”Don’t shoot me! I’m an invalid! I’m not a threat! I surrender!”
The crippled expert candidate did not wish to get caught in the expanding cross fire!
As the weapons held by the rogue guards finally fell silent, Ves’ armored form remained standing.
The Unending Regalia did its job. Aside from ruining the vulnerable coating on the surface, the underlying metal layers did not incur any damage!
The rogue guards all paused for a moment. Even if Ves wore an excellent suit of armor, it was too ludicrous that not a hint of actual damage was visible!
Yet before they could resume their fire, a very slippery cat snuck up behind their formation and began to claw the back of one of the guards with an energy claw!
The potent energy claws tore right through the organic plates and directly cut the spine of the unlucky soldier in half!
”MEOW!”
”Behind us!”
Having slipped into the latest version of his Misfortune Harness, Lucky had turned into an incarnation of feline death!
For some reason, the remaining thirteen guards no longer stood silent. Perhaps out of a mistaken sense of needing to back up their comrades, they began to open fire at the Larkinsons as well!
”You brainless idiots! What is the point of attacking me?! I’m not your enemy, damnit! Stop firing at me and let me leave in peace. I just want to go!”
None of Ves’ complaints had any effect. The outbreak of open hostilities happened so unexpectedly that many people caught in the storm simply didn’t know what to do. Some of the panicky ones tended to look at the people they knew and blindly followed suit!
Ves abhorred this stupid response. It showed that for all of their training, the Planetary Guard troops were not that good at responding to a genuine crisis!
Even though he was confused and angry with the latest developments, he couldn’t afford to waffle at this stage!
Anyone who shot him was an enemy. No exception. No matter who the Planetary Guard troops answered to, as long as they pointed their guns at him, they were already dead in his eyes!
The short battle soon turned into a slaughter once the Larkinsons got serious. Jannzi fired at the guards with an integrated wrist-mounted laser blaster. Even though her attacks were too weak to overcome the armor of her opponents, she still exerted a considerable degree of pressure!
Ves did not remain still either. He pulled out a kinetic pistol and pulled the trigger, causing the c.h.e.s.t armor of one of the guards to splinter from all of the damage it withstood!
”Don’t shoot me! Get me out of here!”
Vincent on the other hand flew his chair further and further away from the heat of battle. Even though various projectiles and beams whizzed near his form, none of them hit him so far.
He wasn’t important enough!
The battle at the exit did not last long. While Ves and Jannzi’s attacks were only moderately effective against the combat armor worn by the elite guard troops, there was one more entity who sowed death left and right!
”MEEEOOW!”
Lucky furiously darted back and forth, clawing every hostile guard that he passed along the way. None of his opponents succeeded in blocking his powerful energy claws!
The only instance where Lucky failed to take the life of a hostile soldier was when his claws slammed against the energy shield of a Planetary Guard captain.
The officer was equipped with fancier gear!
Lucky yowled in frustration.
To be honest, Lucky could have eliminated the opposition a lot faster. Ves had ordered his cat to hold back, though. There was no reason for Lucky to expose his phasing ability.
The energy shield that enveloped the rogue officer’s form did not last long. It turned out that his energy shield was a vastly inferior model that was generally issued to valued middle-ranked personnel!
Ves continually depleted the shield with his kinetic rounds. Lucky attacked the shield from the other side. The combination of pistol and claw attacks quickly exhausted the compact battery powering the mass-produced shield generator!
It only took a single claw to decapitate the rogue captain!
With his death, every hostile guard had died. The remaining Planetary Guard troops were frozen as they witnessed their comrades being massacred.
They didn’t know what to do! Perhaps some of them wanted to assist their comrades, but the speed in which the Larkinsons demolished their foes prompted them to think twice!
As more Lifers were continuing to fight each other across the entire VIP platform, any sense of order had disappeared.
Normally, these respected experts and officials would calmly discuss their disagreements over a meal or something. If they wanted to resort to harsher methods, then they would never take action in person.
This was what their underlings were supposed to do! Why take risks at all when they were capable of dispatching plenty of disposable minions to do the job in their stead?
None of that was apparent at the moment. For some reason or another, Seniors, ministers and other important Lifers decided there was no better time to get rid of their opponents by pulling out their guns and opening fire in person!