163 Chapter 163: Moving Ou (1/2)

We ended up riding in infantry fighting vehicle instead of moving out on foot. It was only natural. The town hall was fairly far away from the shelter we currently resided in, and moving on foot would take far too long. By the time we reached there, the battle would be over and there wouldn't be anybody left to save.

The five soldiers accepted our help grudgingly, especially when they learned from Yang Bai that we had held our own against trained assassins who were Rei's disciples and defeated a rank B Silver Skeletal Wolf. They seemed pretty impressed after that and were more than willing to allow us to squeeze into the armored personnel carrier parked outside the shelter. The driver then slammed his foot down and accelerated forward, but we had managed to strap ourselves in before we were sent flying out of our seats.

We couldn't see anything beyond the armored hull of the APC, but I could hear the occasional whine of the multi-barreled lasers and heavy machine gun over the roar of the tracks, most likely chewing up a few low ranked monsters and even some mid-ranked monsters. They would have little effect on a high-ranked monster like the Silver Skeletal Wolf or even rank C Thunder Wolves, which were capable of generating electric barriers if necessary, but the APC plowed onward, avoiding battles. The goal now wasn't to exterminate monsters but to save lives.

And if we dallied too long, Alicia's father and the other high-ranking members of the city council would be killed.

Alicia was gripping her harness extremely tightly, until her knuckles whitened. I reached out and placed a hand over hers, to assure her. She nodded gratefully and closed her eyes, praying wistfully for her father to be safe.

The APC ground over something as something squealed under us, and I wondered briefly if we had run over a Cyclops Rat. No big loss there.

Eventually, the APC lurched to a halt, and the compartment opened up for the driver to turn back and shout at us.

”We're here!”

”Okay! Everyone, move!”

The sergeant in charge of the half-squad gave the order. The soldiers were the first to move. I had heard that they used to be ten men strong, but their squad had been decimated by casualties during rescue operations. Three dead, two heavily injured and currently recovering after Teacher Cure cast healing magic on them. No doubt Bu Fan would make some snide remark about the casualties being a waste of mages when they were sacrificed to save regular civilians, but this was the same guy who ran off with a squad to rescue his sister. Of course it's a waste, of course regular civilians should die because they were weak as long as they weren't the protagonist's family, loved ones or waifus.

Hypocritical bastard.

The students followed shortly, eight of us jumping after the soldiers, who were fanning out to cover our disembarkation. We were familiar with cover and movement, and also hurried to cover to support the soldiers' advance. The sergeant seemed surprised at our discipline and movements, but he was too professional to remark upon it. Instead, he used hand signals to gesture his own men forward before resorting to simple motions to wave us forward.

As disciplined as we were, we hadn't learned the military hand signals, after all. Of course we wouldn't know some random gesture from the sergeant.

”Help!”

At the town hall, we caught sight of Cyclops Rats chewing on a few bodies. There was a survivor who managed to escape thus far, and when he caught sight of us, he raced toward us with a scream. The soldiers cursed under their breath when he gave our position away. Now we couldn't take the Cyclops Rats by surprise.

Not that we had to. Craig, Sheila, Dong Fan Yue Chu, Lily and Harrison rose to the task, charging forward to slay the Cyclops Rats with spells and weapons. Theodore managed to impose himself between the fleeing man and another Cyclops Rat, braining it with his mighty hammer. Alicia and I remained at the back, preparing to launch long-ranged spells along with the soldiers and their guns and spells. Unlike Alicia, the soldiers were equipped with carbine-type rifles that fired magical bullets. They were obviously more powerful than her twin pistols and provided a sustained rate of devastating fire. But they also cost a lot more mana to use.

Fortunately, they were adult soldiers who had received military training, and thus they had the mana capacity to wield such weapons. Between the thirteen of us, we managed to wipe out the horde of Cyclops Rats in three minutes.

Having professional soldiers fight alongside us was making a huge difference. If the five soldiers weren't here, we would be taking five times as long to clean up the monsters.

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”You…you are here. The military…”

The man was spluttering in immense relief, almost pawing at the sergeant's uniform. The sergeant gently pushed him away.

”Stay with the APC. Don't stray away. We'll be back.”

”The monsters…the monsters! They are…!”

”We know. We got rid of them.”

”There are more downstairs! I don't know…I couldn't see what was happening, but I saw a few robed people going downstairs! They were controlling the monsters! I don't know if those monsters were summoned beasts or not, but those people, they were directing the monsters!”

The man continued to blabber almost senselessly, but his words seemed to ring clearly in our heads. Craig scowled grimly.

”Those must be the assassins.”

”Shouldn't we hurry?” Sheila asked nervously.

”We had better make it in time!” Dong Fang Yue Chu growled.