Chapter 195: Road Block II

Chapter 195: Road Block II



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Hello.

I'm not someone you know but...

I need to ask you something.

Can you tell me why?

Yes, you, the one reading this.

I beg you, tell me... why is this happening?!

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?!

WHY?!

"... Would they tell me?"

"No, not when asked like that."

"That was a bit... rude."

"Let's start over."

125, May, Day 11.

Hello, reader.

Listen to my story.

It looks like I survived another day at this shithole...

Man, I just don't know what to do.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

I only wanted to help, but now I'm too deep to get out.

They called themselves Earth's Saviors, but they are the exact opposite of that.

I mean, why would they attack this random hunter?

What did he do?

They explain fuck all and expect us to understand.

Higher power this, higher power that, just shut up!

This higher power did nothing to help us, actually....

It's the main cause of our fucking problems, and now look at where it landed us.

A shitty-ass brotherhood.

GODDAMMIT!

"AUUGGGGH! FUCKING WHY?! WHY THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT HIM?!" The man roared.

His blank eyes soon left his terminal and gazed upwards at the ceiling as if giving up all hope of surviving.

"Calm yourself, recruit; this mission is of utmost importance. We can't have you distracting the others with your screaming."

"Keep in line or be killed."

The man looked at his new captain for a moment and then spoke, his voice laden with fear: "Are you seriously saying that? Do you not see our target?! LOOK AT HIM!"

Just as his words echoed in their compartment, the man began feverishly pointing at Emir in the distance.

"HOW CAN WE KILL HIM?!"

"He's..."

"....He's terrifying."

Frightening, insane, cold.

The man couldn't count on his fingers how many words would fit their target today.

"So?"

She broke off one's antennae and began skewering the other ants with it.

"He just said that he ran out of ammo and is now reloading the mags with our ammo crates."

"I see."

Emir nodded as he copied Lyra's move, killing another row of monsters.

"So the turret is out?"

"Yep." They both jumped back, as the place where they were just turned into a wall of ice.

"I got her."

Emir stepped forward and placed Emma on his shoulders.

"Enjoying the view?"

"Hell yeah, I aMMMM! STAY STRAIGHT!"

"I'll do my best."

He said as he jumped over the heads of countless monsters, running atop the horde.

A second passed, and Emir looked back at the volley of elemental spells that materialized at

their previous location.

"ICE BOLT!"

"We would've been cooked, haha!"

Emir tapped the mad woman's thighs, which squeezed his neck, and dodged to the right,

avoiding another volley of spells.

"Don't get too excited, Em; the real fight didn't even start."

"I know! I know! Can't you just let a woman express her joy?!"

He scoffed and threw her to the ground, an area clear of the many spell-casting monsters.

"UGH!"

Heh~

Lyra arrived next to them and giggled while helping her off the ground.

Emma scowled at Emir for his mistreatment but then turned her attention to the approaching

monsters.

"FIRE WALL!"

A wall of fire appeared before the monsters, burning all that dared to rush past.

Emir used that fire to his advantage and lured the monsters into its clutches.

Meanwhile, Lyra remained next to Emma, killing all that reached them.

But then a sudden beep echoed throughout all their neural networks, signaling the arrival of

the mastermind.

"Lyra?"

Emir asked as he kicked away a feline's mouth, shutting up its constant roars and killing it in

the process.

"Jake is there." She answered his unspoken question as she pointed southward.

He nodded and then stepped towards them.

Quickly picking them up, he placed them on his shoulders while turning around, facing the

south as per his HUD.

"Flash Step!"