285 Purge 4

"... For fucks sake."

Breathing a deep sigh as she received a message from the IMI network confirming that something happened she hoped wouldn't, Phillipa pulled the pin on one of the grenades she had in her belt before addressing the person next to her.

"Who do you think did it?"

"Either Terra and Mare or Lia and Lilly. There's no chance it was Dax and Solaris, and we didn't break it either."

"True, then what do you want to do?"

Keeping up a casual conversation as they continued taking fire, Alice and Phillipa continued to talk even as Phillipa released the lever on the grenade, igniting the time fuse of the device.

"We could just ignore it, but I'm already quite bored so why not take advantage of it instead? It's your call at the end of course."

"Yeah…. What to do then…"

Falling into deep thoughts, Phillipa made the policeman she was sharing her cover with increasingly more nervous by the second.

"Um, Ma'am, the grenade."

"I know, it still has time left on the fuse."

A bit annoyed that she had her thoughts interrupted, Phillipa casually lobbed the grenade over her shoulder without even looking at where it would land, or that's at least how it looked as the frag still somehow found its target as if it was guided by some higher power before blowing up and claiming the lives of serval gunmen that were suppressing them.

"Then let's just take advantage of it too, I'm also pretty bored of this already, and the retrofit of the battleship Ingenuity is bound to leak and end in a hearing one of these days."

Having made the call as the acting commander of the local operation, Phillipa cast aside her rifle as she activated the manatech generator which had been implanted in her cybernetic left arm.

"Particle generation online, you guys are in for a treat now~ This shit is cutting edge Lazarus tech."

Addressing the confused policemen around her, Phillipa nodded at Alice who then walked out from her cover, becoming the immediate focus of the enemy.

"Phalanx."

But by uttering a single word incantation, Alice was completely shielded from all incoming fire as the incoming bullets were either deflected or outright blocked by an elaborate layer of defensive spell formations.

"Howitzer, load formation… Formation loaded, executing script."

Pointing her rifle at a machine gun nest desperately trying to kill her, Alice let loose a single shot from her weapon, but the impact made it look like a large calibre anti tank round suddenly hit the nest as it was torn apart by a bright explosion.

"Good effect on target, go ahead and take care of the rest from here Alice."

"Roger."

"Oh, but make sure there's actually some intelligence we can salvage after, so no more anti tank class spells."

"Directive confirmed, annihilating targets."

Having received her orders, Alice killed her emotions as she put on her black face mask as black wings made out of mana crystals materialized in the air behind her.

(Ascension spell online, mana supply good… Time to show this world magic I guess.)

At this point, all hostile fire was currently concentrated on Alice, but she hardly noticed as the Phalanx defensive spell formation kept her perfectly safe from not only anti personal class weapons but also the occasional anti tank weapon. Going on the offensive, Alice loaded her leg with mana and stomped down on the ground beneath her, weaving mana into the earth and freeing multiple half ton chunks of earth from the influence of gravity. As the slabs of earth started floating freely around her some of the cartel members defending their property completely stopped firing on Alice, but as she clenched her outstretched fist and made the chunks of hardened rock compress into javelins they started running, although far too late.

"Buckshot."

Having loaded up on ammunition, the first of the rock javelins floated up in front of Alice's outstretched hand and as she uttered a simple one word incantation while supplying the necessary mana the rock spear fragmented into shards which shot off at nearly the speed of sound, mercilessly pelting anyone unlucky enough to be caught outside of cover with lethal efficiency. Having broken the enemies will to fight with a single offensive action, a cold smile formed beneath Alice's facemask as her pupils expanded to their limit and her heartbeat soared past 400 per minute.

"Phalanx: battering ram."

Pulling her defensive shields in tight, Alice lept forth as she left deep cracks in the ground beneath her, making entry through a 3rd floor wall as the phalanx shields transformed into a battering ram and quickly pulverized anything which stood in her way.

"M-monster!"

Landing with her black valkyrie wings attached to her back, Alice no doubt looked like an angel of death descending on the unfortunate goons which chose to flee at the sight of her. Catching sight of a group of them fleeing into a room before locking a heavy looking fortified door Alice sighed before taking an almost casual stroll over to it.

"SSSHH!"

With a quick, sharp breath, Alice wound up her body for a punch, as her clenched fist flew towards the metal door it was surrounded in black mana crystals, forming a hexagonal shell around it.

"GHA!-"

Sending the door flying with little issue, Alice crushed one poor soul who happened to stand behind it before she walked into the room, quickly giving it a scan and deciding that there was nothing of value inside.

"... A-are we saved?"

As the angel of death suddenly turned on her heel and left the surviving gangbangers alive, momentary confusion dulled the gangbangers sense of danger.

If they had been smarter they would have done everything to escape the room which Alice had decided would be their tomb.

"Will o'wisp."

Creating a small white flame in the air in front of her, Alice snapped her finger to activate the spell sealing the fate of the criminals she had just condemned to death as the small flame flicked into the room behind her like a bolt of lightning and exploded like a 50 kilo white phosphor incendiary charge.

"D-don't move! Drop your weapon!"

Walking into a room filled with frankly terrified gunmen, Alice breathed another annoyed sigh as the one who seemed like their leader tried to intimidate her into surrender. Seeing the entire spectacle as nothing more than irritating, Alice threw aside her rifle which seemed to give the gang leader the wrong impression.

"G-good! Now get down on your-"

"Don't misunderstand me now."

"- Eh?..."

With her cold voice laced with bloodlust, Alice immediately took the word from the gang leader as she started weaving mana around both her arms.

"It's just that killing all of you with that weapon would be bothersome."

As she spoke, shortswords made out of black mana crystals materialized in both of Alice's hands, making the gang leader realize what his fate was.

"N-now, hold on a minute."

"... Nah."

With an almost sadistic pause to her answer, Alice disappeared from sight as the sounds of gunfire and screams briefly filled the room, before the silence and the strong smell of blood overpowered everything else.

-

"Here's your intel."

Tossing Phillipa the severed head of the gang leader, Alice removed her now blood splattered face mask as the black 'wings' on her back disappeared.

"Thanks... Let's get out of this place, I need a beer, and a bath."

"Yeah, that would be perfect right about now… I could also use a hug from you-know-who."