Chapter 49 – A Quick Bout of PvP.

Chapter 49 – A Quick Bout of PvP.

"Oh? What do we have here?" Herlex was surprised to see Minazawa. "You got here pretty quickly, I thought you weren't even in Tokyo today." Their intel stated she'd be in Fukushima today, so seeing her here was quite annoying.

"Dang, what were those idiots doing." Elna cursed the others for failing to keep tabs on her.

"Isn't it fine though?" Armalthy laughed. "We can just take her out right now!" He lept forward, his fist charged with electrical energy. "Without Ishigami, you're not so tough!" he slammed his fist into Minazawa's shield, causing the ground to crack under her feat.

He hadn't expected her to take his blow so easily and was shocked. Minazawa didn't miss a beat and activated her shield ability and sent him flying backward into the side of a building. "You're right, Ishigami would have been useful right now; but that idiot went and got himself killed." She clanged her blade on her shield. "But don't think I'm helpless without him."

Herlex thought the sight of Armalthy flying in the air was quite amusing. "Well, let that be a lesson to you." He chuckled. "Fighting Minazawa might be a little bit harder than those cops." He sent a few of his feathers at Minazawa which she easily deflected. Her eyes were focused on Elna, the dedicated martial artist among them. She knew that her speed and heavy-hitting strikes would be the most dangerous of the three.

*BOOM*

Elna slammed her foot into the ground causing a large chunk of asphalt to pop up. "Let's see how that shield does against this." She kicked it forward towards Minazawa, who sliced it in half. When she did so, Elna took the opportunity to rush her, while Herlex fired off several beams of light.

Elna's hit on her shield was much harder than Armalthy. Minazawa held strong, but the blasts from Herlex were quite annoying. Her defenses were good enough to take them for now, but over time the chip damage from them would add up.

*BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM*

Elna acrobatically moved around Minazawa, constantly trying to find an opening in her defenses, but Minazawa's Adamantite Plate Armor and Shield were quite resistant to damage.

{Damn this hurts my hands!} Elna yelled in her head. Hitting the hard shield with no protection was causing her hands to bleed.

"Perhaps you forgot that my main role was to sponge up damage for others?" Minazawa scoffed at Elna's attempt as she threw her back with her shield. "Your punches are quite strong, but you were foolish to come without your gear!" She raised her blade and slammed it into the ground causing a tremor that exploded underneath Herlex, causing earthen spikes to erupt from the ground and send him flying.

"No, we didn't forget; we just need to keep your attention," Herlex said as he stabilized himself in the air. Suddenly a massive blast of electrical energy slammed Minazawa in the back; she'd forgotten about Armalthy.

"I don't really appreciate being thrown through buildings." he shot more blasts at her which she absorbed with her shields. Seeing this opportunity, Elna flung more asphalt at her. Unable to block both, Minazawa began taking damage.

Herlex began to charge one of his attacks, and his palm lit up with blinding light. Minazawa knew just what this attack was, and she wasn't happy at the prospect of taking it head-on.

"Now then, Minazawa, let's see you take my Holy Spear Lance! All that armor won't help when it bypasses it and hits you directly!" The light in his hand changed into a long spear, and he held it above his head

After the revelation that some FWO survivors had retained their game abilities, the government swiftly moved to bring as many as it could under its control. At present, it had five: Minazawa, Mixu, Destructive Imp, Excelsior, and Superbia. Imp, as she was called, was as expected, an imp. And was primarily a manufacturer and was the single best craftsman in FWO. She also had a very unique way of speaking, and a habit of creating explosions and crazy contraptions.

Excelsior was similar to Ishigami in his role, but he was a cleric and used a two-handed war hammer. He was a healer, was fantastic at zone of control, and as a Half-Giant, he could hit incredibly hard. Superbia was an Oni swordsman. She was fast and lethal and primarily used a nodachi for her attacks; her Oni-fire was dangerous and had the effect of stripping opponents of natural resistance. She was probably the only player that could give Akagi a run for her money in terms of speed.

This group was commanded by a fellow survivor, but one which had not retained her powers. Prior to FWO, Aoi Yukikaze was an officer in Tokyo P.D., once she woke up, her connection to the other players landed her the position of leading this special team. To say that she was overwhelmed was the understatement of the century, but she had no choice but to take on this role. The returnees refused to work under someone who didn't understand FWO and their abilities.

Imp was the last to arrive, and the meeting began with Aoi recapping the day's events, and detailing what they knew. Tokyo had lost both its City Council and sitting Governor, to a terrorist attack by a group calling themselves Libra, ironic considering they are exact opposite of law and order. They consisted of ten returnees, each of which was either a social outcast before FWO or had bad experiences after returning from the game. After taking a moment to review the list of names, Minazawa put her head in her hands.

"Herlex is bad enough, but Merkyul and Sabia are involved too." She sighed.

"Add in that maniac Armalthy, and you've got the best hits of the Assault team's misfit club." Herlex, Merkyul, and Sabia were some of the most dangerous and rouge members of the assault team, and on multiple occasions, fights had broken out between them and the other members. Hishya had always stepped in to stop them, but they were always a pain. Having those three backed by seven others was trouble and Minazawa doubted they could win against them in a straight-up fight.

"Imp aside, there are only four of us," Mixu spoke up. "I don't think we're delusional enough to think we can just take them on without a plan." Mixu had always been distant from other players and was not actually part of the assault team. Like Akagi, she played mostly solo, and her build was a little more adept at killing players than most. However, unlike Akagi, the vampire was not a player killer and had minimal PvP experience.

"Best I might be able to do is pick a few of them off, but we just saw that even a surprise hit from my rifle isn't enough to drop one of them with one hit, even without gear." She clicked her tongue.

"Yes-yes!" Imp agreed. "Help-assistance needed!" Imp cackled. "The Angel-thing that kills-destroys must pay-suffer!" Imp's speech was quick and erratic. Imp's speech pattern was not because of her race. For whatever reason, she enjoyed a certain fantasy race's way of speaking and now only speaks that way. Everyone hated it but gave up trying to get her to stop.

Spoiler

Imp!

Mixu!

Superbia!

Excelsior!

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