Chapter 43: leo strikes at the terrorists

During the cold late hours of the night a pair of eyes blinked open as it tried to adapt to the dim lighting. Leo slowly stood up, he looked outside as the light from the moon illuminated the dark room a little. Like Clark he also found an excuse to keep his bag, his lie was even more extreme as he lied that the bag was his family heirloom.

Leo silently moved to where he kept his bag as he quickly checked his wrist watch for time. “It’s 5:40am already,” he muttered silently as he donned his exotic armor and all his other equipment stealthily.

Leo equipped his throwing knives in designated places in his armor, he felt nostalgic as he finally wore his equipment again after more than a month of wearing only his camouflaged cadet uniform. He already made elaborate plans for this attack as he went to a corner where he brought out another bag.

He grinned as he saw the stolen rope and grenade perfectly kept and in order. He stole the grenade when he was among the batch of soldiers to get the weekly equipment supplies for the base from outside. He only took one grenade as he was afraid of his cover being blown.

Leo quickly brought out the grenade and the rope as he silently went to where the four soldiers who were his roommates slept. He placed the grenade down while he tied the rope to one of the soldier’s uniform while attaching the other end to the tip of the grenade. After this he silently opened the door and moved outside as he started executing his well laid out plans.

The police station of this town opened around 6:30am in the morning, Leo’s plan revolved around the police force as a place to lean on when the going gets too tough.

Leo navigated expertly to where the 2 new high-grade soldiers slept. What came as a relief as well as a surprise to him was that the 2 new high-grade soldiers were brothers so they slept on the same room, this information was not recorded in the base’s database. He still dreaded and resented the organization as a lot of their set-ups already made him revise his plans countless times thanks to his hacking device.

The headquarters of the terrorist organization gives a life detection device to all their bases which always stays with the commander of the base. Any death in the base can easily be detected by the device which will quickly sound an alarm alerting all the soldiers of the base. Clark can be said to be lucky as the life detection device of the base he joined was faulty.

This is why Leo aimed at the high-grade soldiers first as they will give him more points and the fight would be much harder when the whole base is alerted by the alarm. A different reason fueled Clark’s decisions to start with high-grade soldiers but it was still because the fight would be harder when others are alerted.

After moving for who knew how long Leo finally arrived at the window to the room where the 2 siblings slept. He checked the time and it was already 3 minutes after 6:00am, “it’s now or never,” he silently muttered as his sabotage officially started.

Leo brought out one of his daggers which he used in cutting an opening silently in the glass window. He stealthily went inside as he approached the siblings. He got distracted a little as he saw the extravagance of the sibling’s room, he sighed “high-grade soldiers are really treated on a different level entirely compared to normal soldiers”.

This didn’t cause him to linger in one place as he quickly approached them, he acted decisively as he stabbed the closer soldier on the neck.

Ptui!! The dagger connected as the soldier struggled while waking up, the brother was already awake after the sound as he quickly rolled down from the bed. Leo threw his other dagger at him which he dodged while moving further back. Leo ignored him as he focused on restraining and killing the first target. His target’s struggle didn’t last as he used his sharp dagger to remove his head.

Wom!! Wom!! Wom!! The alarm sounded glaringly across the base as all the soldiers started waking up. The other sibling already understood the situation as he shouted in anger while quickly retrieving his sword as he advanced to meet Leo. Leo welcomed him as he kept his dagger while unsheathing his sword, they immediately started exchanging strikes as Leo gave him 2 deep cuts to his elbow and knee.

“Ahh!!” The soldier shouted while recoiling in pain as his brain quickly became clear. “What!! A high-grade soldier equipped with an exotic armor, who is this”. He questioned inwardly with dread and resentment. He became afraid but his pride as a high-grade soldier pushed him to attack again in a frenzy but this time with greater caution.

Somewhere else in a room, after the alarm rang 4 soldiers quickly rose up alarmed as they questioned each other. “Are we under an attack?”

Due to their confusion, they didn’t notice that their roommate was absent and most especially they didn’t notice the grenade whose lid was snapped open as the rope was stretched by one of the soldiers. Boom!! The room exploded as the special structure of the building contained the fire to that room preventing the explosion from affecting other rooms.

This explosion only confirmed that they were under an attack as the whole base mobilized their strength. All soldiers quickly went to their posts to defend the base not knowing that the attack was from inside the base.

Clank!! Clank!! Clank!! Whoosh!! After about 2 minutes of fighting Leo finally beheaded the other high-grade soldier as he quickly picked his dagger while silently going outside. He felt panic seeping in as he figured that he spent more time than he estimated in the fight but he forcefully calmed himself as his brain went on overdrive calculating.

Leo’s calculated escape route was already blocked as the soldiers would have blocked all the exits by now. He sheathed his sword back while activating his camouflage device as he decided to blend into the normal soldiers.

Tu! Tu! Tu! Tu! Unfortunately, things became complicated as he was shot at repeatedly by an unknown shooter.

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