It had been a whole day for us doing the job of exterminating the vicious deathodds. We had been doing it continuously after going in different location to increase the speed of our mission. Because there are only hybrid and advance deathodds, we have been at ease this whole time. It is our fortune that we did not have to deal even with an advance stage deathodd. Dealing with hybrid is much easier and safer for newcomers like me.
Our aim is to rescue all the poor people that are stranded in this affected area. Killing the deathodds is our second priority. Our first and foremost mission is to rescue the people who are left in this disastrous area.
Well, talking about those stranded people, together with Hoover, I have only rescued three people. When I saw them, there was a weird feeling in my gut, I don't know how to explain it, but it was quite similar to the feeling I got on the last day of my world. We escorted those three to the rescue camp that was being run by the overseers of our Heinsberg's branch.
When I asked Hoover if he thinks something is strange about those people, he asked what am I talking about.
Emma divided our group in three teams. Hoover and I were sent into the north-east side of this area. Andre, Melora and Brock were sent to the south-east area. Emma, Ellie and Albert decided to go into the west-east area. These were the only areas remaining where still some deathodds were roaming.
"Hey Auri, it's good that you are stuck with me, huh!" Said Hoover after slicing the torso of a deathodd he was dealing with on a rooftop of a building with his axe.
"Yeah, it sure is!" I looked up with no particular expression on my face.
"You don't sound happy about it!" Hoover lowered himself to look at me.
"What should I do to prove my happiness?" I looked straight and unsheathed my Devil's fault after completing my sentence. There were three hybrid stage deathodds walking towards me slowly. The concrete road was destroyed from the middle, so they had to jumped to be at my side.
The deathodds were as big as a lion but with mouth like a dragon. Their body was of black colour and it had some cracks on it. They were growling as they came closer to me.
"You have to deal with three at once. Are you sure you can handle them?" Hoover asked me mockingly.
"I can handle you every night so what are these things to me!"
"Huh!" Hoover moaned in an orgasmic voice.
To deal with the adversity in front of me I activated my caliber, ['Achievement' one who spars with storm king is chosen.]
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that my caliber calls Hoover storm king. At the same time, one of the three deathodds jumped at me, I rushed toward it with firmly gripping my Devil's fault. The achievement gave me great boost to my reflexes and also increased the overall strength.
I reached the advancing deathodd faster than he could reach me, as soon as the four-legged creature came to my face,
Swish!
I swung my Devil's fault to the left in a flash. The head of the advancing deathodd flew in the air and his torso fell to the ground.
Seeing their fellow deathodd getting murdered, the other two four-legged creatures flinched and took some steps back. Their growling also stopped for a moment before they again started to advance towards me.
I activated my caliber and voice ['Achievement' one who survived the deadly flames.] and ['Achievement' one who created flames] ranged in my ears.
My eyes started to glow yellow, and my sword was enveloped in orange flames. Devil's fault enhanced the power of the flames and one of the stars on the handle of sword started to glow same as my eyes.
Growl!
The two creatures came at me while growling and spit falling from their mouths on the ground.
Swish!
I swung my sword in the air toward the right direction without letting them get near to me. A wheel of fire with many blades on its circumference was created and emitted from the blade.
The fire wheel rotated in the wind and went straight for the deathodds. The fire wheel cleaved through the torso of creatures and divided it into two with their legs dropping in forward and their heads falling backward due to air resistance.
The fire wheel and the flames on my blade extinguished as I deactivated my caliber. I sheathed my sword and sighed slightly.
Hoover flashed near me in an instant and whistled, "Man you sure can use your power effectively, huh!"
"All thanks to you, my son."
"I will kill you, you son of..."
..........
"Hurry the fuck up! Why the hell are you so useless, run fast if you don't want to see your ugly head on the ground."
"You bitch! Control your tongue, who said you can talk to me like that."
Brock returned the foul language to Melora while running across the road after she said those words. He was running from six same lookalike deathodds, Seth just killed.
"Stop it, Brock! Focus on running away. There are six hybrids at your tail." Andre shouted from the top of a building standing beside Melora. He was trying to get a perfect aim with his gun.
"Hurry and get out of the firing range, I will take the shots." Andre added to his words.
Heeding to Andre's words Brock ran desperately and with the help of tight suit he was able to run on the mirrored walls of building.
Andre aimed at one of the deathodd's head and fired a round from the rifle. The space style rifle shot a beam of light from its mouth which pierced the neck of targeted hybrid, its head fell on the ground.
The remaining five hybrids looked around in fear because of their instinct. Brock did not miss this chance and took his sword out from its sheath and jumped towards one of the feared hybrids. He attacked the head of the hybrid and was able to make a faint wound on its face. But, as it did not do much damage to the creature, it jumped towards Brock with a bleeding face.
Growl!
The wounded monster tried desperately to bit into Brock's right arm, but all of its struggle went to vain because the tight suit played a crucial role in protecting the inner forearm of Brock. The surface of jumpsuit was much flexible and rigid and did not allow the teeth of scarred creature to pierce through.
"Shit!" Brock said as he shook his right arm with all his might. This caused Andre some trouble to take a right aim at it, so he changed his target after saying few words for his friend.
"You dumb asshole! Stop being such a scaredy swine and use your sword again to decapitate it." Andre screamed at Brock.
Hearing the words of Andre broke Brock's heart because he had just promised Brock that he will not curse from now on because Clawford had personally asked Andre to correct his behavior.
As Brock did not have much choice, he simply lifted his sword up, with his left arm, the double-edged sword gave an illuminating shine because of light. He sliced the neck of biting four-legged monster by striking the sword in the downward direction.
Sliced!
The black blood flew in upward direction and the head that was trying to bite into the arm of Brock fell on the ground with his mouth still open.
After slicing the head off, Brock immediately turned his head straight to deal with the remaining deathodds only to find a single deathodd running away from Melora. Melora had stooped down from the roof of building to save troubled Brock.
Melora used her rifle to shoot down the monster because it had run quite far away from her.
Shoot!
Melora put her rifle again on her shoulder as she took the final shot. Brock came toward her with sheathing his sword, and his gaze set on the ground downward feeling shame because of him being useless and coward.
"Hmph!" Seeing Brock reached her Melora pouted in anger and trotted away.
Andre also jumped from the roof and landed on the concrete road.
"Let's search for the distressed ones!" He exclaimed with no particular expression, brushing past Brock. Brock knew how Andre was from the inside, but still it didn't mean that he liked Andre being that way.
Brock silently followed Andre with eyes directing downwards in shame.
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Emma was looking at Elizabeth who was suspended in air with the aid of her caliber, waiting for any sign of incoming trouble. Elizabeth rotated 360 degrees to see if there was any remaining deathodd nearby.
After founding no sign of those vicious creatures she looked downward and shook her head in denial. After receiving the sign Emma sighed in relief and looked on the road with both of her hands on her waist. Emma's black short hair were stuck to her neck due to the sweat her body had produced during the killing of deathodds.
Her boots were drenched in black blood of deathodds and there were corpses of four-legged creatures lying on the ground beneath her feet. Some corpses had their heads missing, some had a giant cavity in their stomach, while some only had legs remaining.
There were four people sitting on concrete road near Albert who was lying on a rock lifted slightly upwards. He had a small piece of wood similar to cigarette stuck in his mouth. He was laying on his back with his arms behind his head.
Emma looked at him with furrowed eyes, "Why are you the one resting when you did absolutely nothing?"
"You think it is easy to calm all these people down!?" Albert replied nonchalantly.
"How many people you think there are? There are only four people."
At the same time Elizabeth who was in the air moments ago landed on road and walked towards Emma. She eyed Albert and rolled her eyes before giving report to Emma.
"There are no deathodds near us, but I don't know if we can say the same about people! It would be better if we could continue our mission of finding more people."
"You are right about that. I will give our division a command through this earpiece to look further for people if they are done with the deathodds."
Emma walked away from Elizabeth to give a command to everybody in her team demolishers. Elizabeth crossed her arms to wait of Emma to complete her order and looked at the rescued people. There was one girl who was a teenager and two girls and one boy of single digit age.
Emma came after giving the order and eyed Albert.
"Hey, if you are done with your rest then I would like you to escort these people to the refugee camp."
"Tch, why should I do that? Do you know how outrageous the distance to that camp is!?" He complained.
Hearing his complain Emma's and Elizabeth's scowled.
After receiving the intense gaze sweat dropped from Albert's smooth skin and he stood up with saying, "If there was an older girl in these survivors it would have been fun for me. Get up I will escort you all to the refugee camp."
After he walked away Emma shouted, "Try to hurry, we will move forward after you have returned."
Albert just showed a thumb's up without turning his head behind and kept walking forward, holding the hand of the youngest girl.
Elizabeth looked at Emma who was looking at the dead bodies of the wild creatures.
Emma turned her head from corpses to Elizabeth and said in a worried tone, "I have asked both teams if they have faced any advanced deathodds, but all of them have affirmed in negative."
"Only we have faced two advanced deathodds, huh! Well, I don't know maybe our luck was not with us." Emma kept quiet so Elizabeth continued, "But I know what you are worried about. I know you picked this direction because you knew here would be most dangerous deathodds. I saw you talking to Clawford about what types of deathodds are found in what direction, when we were still in our training institute. You are a kind soul, huh!"
Hearing those words made Emma's face red, similar to a red apple.
"Wha-what do you mean? I am not kind."
"Yeah... Sure you are not."
Elizabeth sighed with a chuckle.