10 Meeting Others (2/2)
THUD
Lana felt her entire body explode with pain as the Morenkai collided with her shield, punching out with one of its long arms and slamming her into the ground, sending her handgun flying from her hand. Her Mortal Ki Cultivator Ability had strengthened her body and the shield she used was a special one from the Shop, an Iron Ice Shield that helped nullify impacts, but despite that, she was completely overpowered in an instant.
In her entire year of experience here, Lana had never encountered any of the special Morenkai. She had only heard of the leader of the Mayoral Alliance fighting one before, eventually managing to kill it by luring it off the roof into a dangerous free fall from the skyscraper.
”Arrgh!” She involuntarily yelled as she felt several of her bones crack. Her head felt dizzy as she looked up at the Morenkai, her heart exploding with emotion.
'Is this where I die? After all of the past year, all the pain I went through?' Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at the Abnormal.
”No! Lana!” The African man off on the side struggled to reload his rifle, his hands shaking with adrenaline and horror as he saw someone about to die in front of his eyes. He had just arrived here from Earth, stuff like this was completely foreign to him and well outside of any training he had had.
Even Riker, his hands still raised as he maintained the Sound Barrier and blocked out the sound of their gunshots, looked on with horror, unable to help. If he lowered the Sound Barrier to try and help while they were shooting very loud guns, they would attract a horde of Morenkai this deep in the central area.
All he could do was watch on and pray for a miracle.
Just as everything seemed as if it was all over…
Yet another completely unexpected thing happened.
WHOOOOSH
”Wo-woah! Hup!”
From out of seemingly nowhere, the body of a teenager that looked to be around 17 or 18 came flying crashing through the air at a very fast speed. This boy flew down into the Sound Barrier and slammed into the towering Abnormal Morenkai.
BAM
The impact sent the glowing, grotesque figure several meters away, tumbling down hard on the rooftop.
The teenager, meanwhile, agilely flipped to his feet from the impact, his body spinning around and smoothly canceling off the extra momentum. As he spun, his legs twitched slightly and the young man frowned, as if his body was not following his orders perfectly.
From behind the man, a pair of blue orbs floated up and began to slowly orbit the man's head.
”Whoops, my bad. Sorry for interfering with your kill.” The teenager turned to the stunned onlookers with a cheerful smile. As he spoke, he tapped a ring on his finger. Immediately, a steel sword appeared in his hand.
The trio just stared on in shock.
”W-w-what?!” Lana stuttered out.
Meanwhile, the Morenkai that they had been hunting slowly shambled back to its feet, like a creature from a horror movie. Its black body was beaten and bruised, but still completely fine.
”W-watch out!” Khari yelled out as he saw this, finally managing to reload his Weatherby Mark V. He pulled the rifle forward to aim.
BOOM
He missed.
”Careful, it's coming back!”
The Morenkai began to lunge forward, its gruesome mouth opening wide again as it charged at the teenager.
”Khari! Quickly! Shoot again!” Lana desperately called out, clutching at her cracked ribs as she spoke. Unfortunately, the former elephant watcher was too slow. He was an expert at taking care of elephants, but far from an experienced shooter. The fear and excitement of everything had overwhelmed the man.
”No!” Lana could only watch in horror as the looming Morenkai ran right up to the strange teenager that had saved her life…
SHKKKK
WHOOSH
…And then tumbled down to the ground, its body split into two as black blood sprayed outward, collapsing.
”…”
”…”
”…”
”Huh?” All three of the trio stared, their jaw's collectively dropping.
”What?”
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