Chapter 262 (1/2)
10 sentinels float in a rectangular form. They are in proper arrangement so that they can go into battle at any time.
Right now, the sentinels are empty. Excluding the cyborgs sitting in the cockpits, all personnel have gone down to the ground.
They can only clear large areas with bombs. They need to go in themselves and dig in if they want to take care of the smaller parts more carefully.
1 raid was dispatched in this area.
A 1000 person force unit was scattered out to carry out their mission to annihilate mutants.
In other words, 10 forces.
“Hyper Kick!”
Boom!
A level 6 mutant Ghost Deer’s back is destroyed under one Lifer’s kick.
Disgusting chunks of flesh fly with that impact. The advantages for insect series mutants are powerful force, health, and defense. Of those, defense is the best but it is over once that collapses.
Boom!
A grenade goes into the caved in back.
An explosion inside.
The Ghost Deer stretches helplessly. Its organs are crushed. Similar things happen nearby. Lifers grouped in forces bomb straggling mutants and are overwhelmingly on offense.
“Alright alright. Hurry up and clear this, then rest.”
The force leader speaks as he brushes traces of the Ghost Deer from his leg.
His battlesuit’s lower body, under the knee to be precise, is abnormally developed.
He had modeled it with more focus on one area. His may not be like that of Rankers, but his battlesuit is a 7 combination that is on a similar level to that of most large guild masters. He is actually the master of a large guild with roots in the Netherlands.
The force he brought in is made up of elite guild members. The 100,000 that entered together are ranked by ability in World Federation as well.
“As expected from master’s Hyper Kick! It’s one hit for a man.”
“If you can get past 9 combination, you won’t fall behind Rankers either.”
The force leader felt lifted by the members’ compliments. If only there wasn’t a difference in the combination numbers, he would pack a hit that wouldn’t fall behind any other battlesuit.
Even if the combination count is the same, the types of combination considering factors like whether it is specialized for battle or support make a huge difference in power and ability.
The force leader was sure.
If the Hyper Kick reaches 9 combination, not just his lower body but his entire body would be strengthened.
“We’re done here. It looks like the other forces are finishing up as well.”
One by one they reported that they had completed their duty via their radio channel.
There are several radio channels. It gets messy if 100,000 use a single channel. They have force channels that at least 100 people use. Only Strategist got integrated management of all of the channels in the communications sector at headquarters, and everyone else acted within the channels they were allowed.
[Raid 85, respond.] [Raid 85 responding.] [Forces are coming in over the radio in order, but we’ve been disconnected from forces 841 and 846. 8 forces get together immediately and find what happened to them.]
The force leader’s face dropped at the new mission. This was the same for the force members. They lost contact with 2 forces. This is a bad sign.
“The raid channel was quiet.”
A tranquil jungle.
They heard several explosions in sequence because they were fighting mutants, but losing connection with 2 forces is a separate matter.
If something had happened to them physically, they would have ignored channels and yelled ‘Help!’ into the radio. But there had been nothing.
“This is worrisome.”
“Damn it!”
The mission experience of the 100 people here combined reaches over tens of thousands.
Veterans among veterans. They thought of the worst case scenario first.
“It would be nice if they were just being lazy, but there’s no way that’s the case. In this kind of situation, there’s a high chance that they were killed without a sound. It’s 200 people.”
They could understand with level E, level D, and level C Lifers with battlesuits.
But for that to happen to level A and B Lifers?
[Force 849, go to the location I call out.] [Yes.]
The coordinates sent over raid 85 leader’s radio enters the direction they need to go in, and it gets marked in the battlesuit helmet.
“Alright, let’s go.”
“Huh? Fo – force leader, over there…”
“What?”
Right before the force leader moved in the direction marked. A few force members discovered something and pointed.
Then at that moment…
Black shadows flew violently through the air at the force members’ heads. They were thin cloth-like fluttering tentacles.
It penetrated exactly 90.
Level A Lifers reacted and avoided the attack, but all level B Lifers were killed.
“What – what on earth is this!”
“Ugh! They got away again. Huh? 10 lived again? This is really funny.”
The place that the few dead force members had pointed, where the sound was coming from. The surviving level A Lifers turned their heads.
“They’ve advanced a lot when they used to die on contact. They avoided my surprise attack?”