Book 3: Chapter 24: The Hunt Part I
<strong>Scarlet</strong>
Without any hesitation, the Garden begins to descend at an incredible speed towards the ground, stopping with the bottom of the ind just barely not touching the walls of the orphan sector. Then Ava immediately shouts while manifesting a spear in her hand and ayer of blood armor around her body, Enforcers,e! We restrain the Fracture here and now!
A loud roar echoes from the Guardians on the Garden, making me look back to find a woman seemingly about thirty years old spreading her hands out and letting out a roar akin to that of a tiger. She then begins transforming into a ck tiger spanning three meters in length and an entire meter and a half in height, her ws digging into the stone of the Garden. Only for that stone to fix itself when she begins charging off towards the edge of the Garden.
Meanwhile, simr events start happening around the Garden where each of the ss V Guardians prepare before leaping off of the floating ind and into the orphan sector. But when I turn around myself, I feel a hand on my shoulder, bringing my gaze to find the blind seer of the Garden. Avas second inmand. And as I look back, I also notice the rest of the members of the Garden heading down towards one of the tunnels leading underground.
The woman smiles at me and says, Come.
So I follow her and the other Guardians underground until we end up at a hangar which is housing severalrge hover tforms magi-tech structures meant to transportrge objects through the air. And everyone is currently climbing onto the tforms.
The seer lightly pushes my back towards it and says, Hop on.
I smile at that before nodding at her and jumping onto one of the tforms alongside over a dozen other Guardians, almost all of which on this tform are ss II, leaving the majority of the ss IIIs and some ss IVs on other tforms entirely.
Something I do notice is that none of the ss Is are here. In fact, Im pretty sure they all stayed above ground.
Guess theyll be bombarding the demons from the ind with ranged skills or equipment? Probably for the best since they wont be able to do anything to the demons down there even if they helped. Theyd just end up in danger.
Either way, there seems to be one ss IV Guardian on each tform along with the ss IIs, likely here to defend us from the higher leveled ss III demons. But since we wont be given anything by the System should we not be at risk at all, theyre probably only going to defend us from ss III demons above a certain level.
After were all on the tform, each of the tforms begin to float off the ground in the hangar as the hangar door opens, soon letting us all outside. The tforms then start floating in the direction of the ground, with the ones with ss III and above Guardians on them going all the way down to the ground, while the ones with ss IIs on them like my own stay up in the air.
Out of nowhere, the tform turns see-through, giving me a better view of the ground below. And what terror it is.
Normally Fractures dont generally appear in Tier 3 cities. Not even very many appear in Tier 2 cities, in fact.
Most of the time, only one Fracture happens every one to two months inside of each Tier 3 city, the Demonic Assaults being rather limited in reality energy, as the researchers call it, not letting them form many Fractures here. Which also leads them to believe that reality energy is generated by living beings. Probably only sapient ones. Meanwhile, one Fracture tends to happen every two or so weeks in Tier 2 cities. And with the general rarity of Fractures, ss I and II Fractures are the mostmon ones seen in the lower Tiered cities.
And even with those, the cities lose tens of thousands of people with each Fracture. Something thats only made up for with theck of people dying to diseases, along with the enforced birth requirement on the people.
But what Im seeing down there right now is a massacre. And since there arent many barriers or bunkers in Tier 3 cities, with none of them being in the orphan sector, and all of the buildings down there only being one story and in rtively poor condition, most of the demons are out in the open. And theyre all ughtering the humans in the city like bugs.
I feel my fist clenching at the sight before I start using skills from up here on the demons down below. Starting with blood boil and life drain, and then moving on to using blood manifestation to send attacks towards them, along with making various null magic fields to bother the demons attacking both humans and Guardians. But after a few minutes of this, I use my blood shadow and have it jump down to the buildings below to start targeting one of the weakest demons I noticed in the corner of the mayhem thats targeting a couple orphan kids. A demon that should still be strong enough to rip me in half.
If its my blood shadow though, I should be able to safely attack it. All itll mean for me is some painful bacsh if my blood shadow is killed after all.
Out of the corner of my eye, I find the other Guardians on the tform all sending ranged attacks down on the demons as well, meanwhile the Guardians on the ground are starting to tear their way through the swarms of demons. I even see the ss Vs already having killed the general and sealed the core, making it so they can shatter it at any moment. And by now theyre floating up into the air and using widescale skills to stop any demons from killing the civilians with some rather great sess.
I also cant help but notice some random shes of white here and there before demons just randomly disappear right as theyre about to hurt a civilian.
Whites doing, no doubt.
But shes not just ughtering everything. Only protecting civilians who are about to get hurt or die.
My attention returns to the ss III demon that my blood shadow was fighting the moment I feel bacsh from its death, making me almost lose my footing on the tform.
<strong>|Demon Vanguard Subspecies: Taracht Level 253|</strong>
The same demon that was used in my very first ranking tournament at Lions Heart as the ss III demon.
Damnit, I <em>will</em> kill this thing!