Chapter 671: Emergency Mission

Chapter 671: Emergency Mission

The first swing of the policemans beam sword easily sliced through the tail of a canine skeleton. With a quick twist of his wrist, he continued with a slash downwards, taking off its rear right leg at the same time. Yet the canine skeleton didnt seem to flinch at all, as it leapt right at the exosuit, leg or no leg.

However, the sword-wielding exosuit was already waiting for it, calm and collected as it stabbed the scorching blade of light into the monsters head. A second later, it exploded in a flash of eerie green light. Despite its flashy appearance, this explosion did not cause any damage, but it did signify the disappearance of the strange green flame within its skull. With it, the entire canine skeleton fell apart as well

Was that the force animating the creature then? Seems like we found a weakness in its head.

Still, while that creature might have died, the force of its leap remained. As its lifeless skeletal frame crashed into the exosuit, the suit visibly staggered, but that was the extent of its impact seems like even a full-on charge from one of these beasts couldnt topple an exosuit. Furthermore, its claws did not seem to leave much of a mark on the exosuit either. In other words, that scorpion tail was its strongest weapon, and strong it was.

As for the other exosuit on the bridge, he seemed to have fared worse. The moment he approached one of the beasts in melee range, he was hit by a tail attack. Fortunately, the tail wasnt able to penetrate the exosuit this time. It merely left a sizable dent where it struck. In all likelihood, the exosuit could take another three or four of such attacks before the pilot within was hit.

That tail attack, it seemed, wasnt as undefeatable as we first thought. That shocking one hit kill was most likely aided by the beasts running charge up the bridge. And that made sense as well. The area of the exosuit in question was the cockpit, it would have to be the sturdiest portion of the exosuit.

Under such conditions, the two exosuits on the bridge slowly retook the initiative from the canine skeletons. As they smoothly ducked and weaved in melee, they would throw in a few slices here and there. Whenever they couldnt dodge an attack, they merely slammed head-on into the beast instead, easily sending it flying.

Speaking of flying, these two exosuits actually tried to take to the skies several times already. However, the canine skeletons were keen-eyed enough that they immediately sprung on them whenever they even attempted to do so.

Either way, I now had a clear idea of how these beasts worked -only its tail was a concern.

Yet just when I was about to relay this finding to the survivors, trouble struck. A dozen or so canine skeletons sprung up behind us!

Their bravado barely lasted ten seconds as they started to flee themselves. Unfortunately, the moment they tried to run away, the canine skeletons struck Geez, did no one teach them not to show their backs to an enemy?

The fear of death was like a virus; once it spread, there was no stopping it. Once the first casualty appeared, a wave of panic washed over the whole contingent, and it wasnt long before they began fleeing blindly.

Everyone, calm down and maintain ranks Bitong tried to command the survivors to no avail.

Big brotherlets get out of here these monsters are scary Jiaojiao said as she rode up to me in her pink exosuit. Even wrapped in a veritable metal fortress, there was no safety to be had at this point for the timid girl.

Your Highness, the time has come for us to slay the demons!

Compared to Jiaojiao, Lixiang was a lot more combative, but why did she turn from a magical girl to a character in a cultivation novel?

Regardless, running away wasnt an option now. From the way these monsters seemed to be popping up in the dozens, there were most likely even more hiding out somewhere. And besides, if the police were to be routed completely, where were we to even run to? Thus, I decided to fight!

Ding! System update emergency mission activated Loot system activated

Mission: Battle the scorpion-like monsters Objectives: Slay all the scorpion-like monsters Reward: Flame Whip. Activation cost of 5 SP. 2 SP per second while its active. Potency varies based on SP used. Comments: Has our valued host heard of the term loot farming? On failure: Permanent closure of the Loot function.

Naturally, the urgent nature of this mission meant that the system had already accepted the mission on our behalf. Still What the heck is this Loot system? Are monsters going to drop items now?