85 War 2 (1/2)

-Alpha-1 here- Ogre located at the front.

An ogre appeared wielding a car on each hand. Ogres were built with muscles as strong as trains. A majority of the ogres were over five meters tall. The most difficult aspect of fighting against an ogre was the strong resistance against any sort of fire-based attack.

Schl-kak!

A few soldiers from Ark shot their grenade launchers. The ogres were completely covered in flames, slowing them down. In that instant, a psyker with a blink ability instantly closed onto them. He used his shotgun to its head. They looked at ease and experienced.

”That person also has blink ability.”

Upon Han's words, Silence quickly wrote out a message.

-Nobody has better blink control than me. I'm the best.

The special force squads gradually neared to the inner city. The roads became more complicated and the number of alleyways increased. They could see through to the dimensional crack in between the buildings.

-TssZzt, we're splitting here. Best of luck.

The special force squads split in different directions. They were now quite far away from the Allied Military Forces and minion battle zone. As planned, the Allied Military Forces kept the minions busy.

'I didn't see any organized minion forces that had an Elu leading them. It was just a hoard of minions.'

There was no way that the Elus were short in hand. After the end of the war, minions had never gathered in one place in such high numbers.

”Wait.”

Corporal Zhai suddenly halted. He touched the iron reinforcement bars which protruded out from the concrete ground. There was black fur attached to the end of the iron rods.

”That's werewolf fur.” Han said from behind Corporal Zhai.

”This is troublesome. If there are werewolves in the immediate vicinity, it will be hard to outrun them.”

Corporal Zhai mumbled. Team Delta and Echo had been surrounded and died. It is very difficult to escape from a group of werewolves who are led by Elu hunters. It will be difficult to go against such a high number of enemies no matter how skilled the squad.

BANG!

The sound of bombs reverberated from a distance. Long distance missiles and bombs fell from the sky and the minions began to scatter. Gradually, the Elu mages that were hiding amongst the minions began to appear. The Elus casted a psychic shield and blocked the missiles. The reason the primitive minion army could fight on equal footing against the modern military forces was due to the Elus.

'How many more people will die?' Han slowly closed and opened his eyes. There was no way to keep count of all the casualties on this battlefield. Han didn't have the power to defend everyone here.

'At least I should have the power to protect those next to me…'

Han looked to his squad members and started to speak. When he ordered commands, he didn't bother with any sort of honorifics even with Corporal Zhai in their squad.

”We can't afford to stop here even if we are worried about such things. We are responsible for two ceremonial points. We must hurry to take care of our task, then rejoin with the other squads.”

Han positioned Corporal Zhai into the vanguard position. Corporal Zhai had the most experience fighting in a city zone. Zhai was the most knowledgeable about the places they should be careful and where they should move with extra silent steps. Han carefully watched over Corporal Zhai's every move. There was no way to learn about these things through words. This was a skill that could only be obtained through real life experience. Squad Easy moved through the city ruins following Corporal Zhai's lead.

”Hmm.” Corporal Zhai murmured to himself. His expression crumpled upon turning into an alley corner. Several corpses were sprawled in this alleyway. They looked like they were a group of homeless people. They wore ripped up coats and had wrapped their neck tightly with a scarf. Their fingers looked dirty and black.

'These must be refugees that are not protected from any country. Maybe run away criminals.'

Han followed Corporal Zhai and looked over the corpses. Han mindlessly tried to nudge a corpse with a light kick. The blood which pooled on his forehead dripped down. The blood which dripped wasn't black but red, signalling that the blood was fresh.

Ddak, Ddak.

Han tapped his helmet twice and the squad stopped. He swiped a bit of fresh blood from the dead vagrant's forehead and showed his squad members. Red blood. Not much time has passed since these vagrants died.

Nod.

The squad nodded their head. They hid their presence while they moved forward and remained alert for any signs of noise. Amongst the chaotic sounds of battle from far away, they noticed the sound of footsteps.

Sssk.

The squad stuck close to the alleyway wall. Han threw a rock to the opposite alleyway.

Twitch.

The sound of footsteps grew louder. This wasn't the sound that could be made by a soldier's shoes. The ground slightly shook with every step.

”Kgrrrrr.”

A low growl could be heard. If they approached the monster any closer, then they would surely be discovered through smell. The squad members looked to one another. Han lifted his high flash-bang granade and made eye contact with Silence. Silence wrote out an okay on his helmet shield.

'One, two.'

Han pulled out the pin and counted. He threw the flash-bang grenade and closed his eyes.

BOOM!

A deafening explosion shook the area. Silence dashed out and confirmed the opponent's location. There were two werewolves. The werewolves had their eyes closed as they howled.

'Simon! Right!”