"It's really nice meeting you. I'm Bobby Bradford. What's your name?" Bobby introduced himself, making an amiable smile, and showing his teeth.
? " The pleasure is all mine. Oh, in my wildest dreams, I never imagined that you would be so cultured even when you have just met someone who tried to kill you, and moreover, it really feels nice meeting you." No.10 responded, grinning at him. "My name… um… er… actually, I don't have a name. But why don't you call me No. 10? That's what I go by, anyway."
Following their prolonged silence, Bobby finally opened his mouth after watching each other with great curiosity. "Then, shall we?"
"Hmm, at last, it can't be avoidable, hah! " No.10 made a heavy sigh and then he made a war cry. "Hahaha…. Show me what you got, Mr. Bradford?"
Then, with a tap on his wristwatch, the sharpshooter's camouflaged suit suddenly appeared as if to become whole-body armor, and a series of highly advanced small guns appeared from his sleeves and shot close to Bobby.
"Ninja Shadow step, 1st law, Racing the wind!" Bobby hushed his head and dodged all the bullets and the next moment he appeared just behind No.10.
As Bobby was about to punch him on his back, the Assassin with the code name No.10 snorted. "Hmph, flash bomb!"
Just as Bobby's fist was about to land on his back, the black suit of the assassin produced glared up, exploded, and covered the small area around him with green smoke, and his fist failed to land on him.
Bobby couldn't discern the presence of his opponent once the green smoke dispersed, but he closed his eyes and suppressed all his senses except for his hearing as he burnt some vampiric essence blood, sending the explosive byproduct energy toward his pair of olfactory organs and then he heard a faint sound of heartbeats coming from a lush green bush nearby.
Meanwhile, using the technology of his suit, the assassin was covering his heat signature and hid within the bush as he aimed his weapon at the lanky boy, who was shutting his eyes slowly. "Hmm, stay like that for a second." He hushed and was about to click the lever of the machine gun.
Bang!
Just the moment he clicked, the bullet flew in the air and passed through Bobby's head and the assassin was about to say, "Headsh…." He then finished as he saw that no blood or brain matter or he didn't hear the sound of exploding head at all. "Oh, fuck!"
Bobby appeared beside him and punched his chest.
Thud!
With a thudding sound, the assassin was sent flying backward in the air and landed on the foot of the small hill.
Bobby moved like a shadow and saw the assassin stand up from the ground while groaning and he saw that there was not even a dent appeared on his suit. "Activate Devil's eyes! Start scanning the opponent's status." He said and his eyes glinted a cyan light for an instant and returned to clear blue eyes and then he heard the familiar beeping sounds of the System and a new status appeared in his mind.
[Scanned Completed!]
[Target: A seasoned assassin with good marksmanship! Sense Killing intent from him.]
[Species: A pure Human ]
[ Gender: Male ]
[ Bone age: 35 Earth years ]
[ Main Energy level: lvl 6]
[ Health: 6150/6300; Mana Qi: 100/450]
After seeing his opponent's current status, Bobby thought in his mind. "Hmm, at least, my last attack dealt some damage to him."
"Is this all you got?" The assassin smirked at him and said as he shook his head twice. "Then, be prepared to die! Laser gun mode, activate!" The next moment, a white beam of light shot out from his right sleeve.
Bobby dodged it and spoke while standing on the branch of a tall tree nearby. "If this is all you got, then I might simply say you are not really worth my time. What about this? You show me your ultimate cards and I'll kill you in no time, painlessly."
"Fine," The assassin said softly. "Activate insane mode!"
In the next instant, his suit changed its color to red and covered his entire body, and a strong concentration of energy emanated from his feet and hands, simultaneously lifting his body in the air. He then flew toward Bobby and began shooting lasers from his hands. Sometimes, explosives homing miniature-missiles came out of his back, shooting at him. Bobby successfully dodged them, but at the same time, he could not do anything to the assassin who was in the air.
"Alright, I will use that skill once more," whispered Bobby under his breath. While he kept dodging all those series of attacks from the air, he began to mutter in a strange tone while making various hand gestures at the same time.
Meanwhile, as Bobby performed the incantation, all the vampiric blood all over his blood vessels began to ignite, turned into white fumes which were then moved toward his hands and he finally shouted, finishing his incantation. "Ice Lotus Skill, activate!" Soon a bluish icy ball in the shape of a lotus materialized just above his hands in the air and it enlarged gradually and finally stopped after it retained the shape of a fully matured lotus with only five petals.
The assassin, who was currently in the air, also detected the concentration of a large energy ball in Bobby's hands and he exclaimed in surprise. "Hah! That is… er… a magical skill. So, this brat is a mage, after all. What an interesting turn-up? Brother, this brat is a highly sophisticated and intelligent mage. And also, an ice elemental caster. I believe you're going to have a blast today. Hahaha..." "Let's see how he's going to handle dealing with someone he cannot reach." Then he bombarded ten homing missiles aiming at Bobby.
After the explosion from the missile, he saw Bobby standing still while glancing up at him high above in the air.
Bobby held the Icy-lotus' highly concentrated energy ball in his left hand and then plugged its petals with his right hand, placing each between his fingers with folded fingers.
The assassin flying in the air observed carefully with the AI on his helmet screen and he wondered. "Five petals. Hmm, there are two petals embedded in one of them." Still, he continued firing at him using all his arsenals that came with his super suit.
Bobby ran around and made a throwing motion and he shouted in his mind, "Shuriken Star throwing technique!"
Three ice petals rotated rapidly at a high speed and flew toward the assassin in the air. Aiming the probable projectile position with his AI, he shot laser beams from his hands toward the incoming three icy petals. He dodged once and managed to destroy the three petals, specks of bluish icy particle fall down and all the verdant vegetation just below began to freeze the moment the icy particle touched them. "Phew! What a dreadful skill?" But at the moment, he saw only one petal left in Bobby's hand. "Shit!" "Used 100% energy on armor!"
At that moment, an icy petal which was hidden within the specks of bluish icy particles rushed out with an element of surprise and hit him on his left leg. The moment it touched, it began to freeze. Spreading from his left leg toward his upper body and the assassin lost the mechanism to fly and fell down to the ground unsteadily.
Bobby walked toward the landing place and he spotted the Assassin inside the small hole made from both the landing and explosion of his battle suit, with ice particles surrounding him. Having lost both his legs, he saw the assassin waiting for his death. "Last words?"
"Hahaha… ahh!" The assassin groaned and vomited blood twice and said words by words, "Hmm, I really like to see the match between you and No.1 and I guess I could not make it…" Then he puked another mouthful of blood. "My name is No.10, King Of Sniper: Look at my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, the bloody headshots were all that I see in my targets. Now, I feel really good to fall in the hand of a worthy and witty opponent like you. "
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District A-13,
Mia was currently enjoying a warm morning bath in a hot tub while playing with the soap bubbles and splashing the water from time to time. "Oh, interesting! Some puny ants dare to come inside my house. Really daring! Boys, why don't you come out? It was not gentlemanly of you all to barge inside when a grown lady was inside a bathtub. Haven't your mother taught you that?"
After sitting up and covering herself with the green tower, she jumped out of the bath and briskly made her way toward the right corner, and made a poking movement with her index finger.
"Aahhh!" With a scream, an assassin in complete disguise fell down lifelessly.
At that time, three other assassins inside the room were scared off by her sudden attack, taking the life of one of them with no effort at all.
"She's a fucking monster. Run!... Run for your life."As they ran in three different directions, one of them shouted in an effort to escape.
No.2 managed to escape the house by breaking through window glass, and he wondered if his chance of escaping there was worth the lives of the other two. Then suddenly a seraphic presence spread toward him from behind, followed by an icy-cold killing intent that kept him stiff on the ground, and his legs wouldn't listen to his brain.
"You damn bastard. Dare to break my window. Argh!..." Make the assassin No.2 wetted his pants on hearing the scream from the behind.
As the lady walked out of the house, trotting step by step, she slapped the assassin's face. The head exploded and the assassin's headless body fell to the ground, lifeless.
"Hey, clean this mess up and come inside the house. You still have three bodies to deal with." Mia said and walked toward the house.
"But I can't enter the house." A male voice spoke from out of nowhere.
"I give you the permission to enter this once." Mia's cold voice came from inside the house.