Life Hunter

When Arimane saw the interior, he sighed in admiration. The inside of the jet simply looked like a luxurious hotel room with a bar and couches. Most of the squad went to sit on the bar and ordered drinks to the bartender. Arimane just sat down on a couch and looked outside from the window. Jin, Tieria, Tiria, and Erin also sat down near him, patiently waiting or the take-off.

The plane finally moved and started making work his reactors. But the strange thing was how a silent they were. Arimane observed from the window and spotted a cyan light under the plane"s wings, he just wryly smiled and laid back on the seat.

The jet took off without any disturbance or shaking, even the bottles of the bar didn"t move a bit. It seemed that this plane also was equipped with a gravity manipulation system.

Arimane ended up ignoring all of the other particularities of this plane and looked toward Moria who was coming back from the pilot cabin "Where are we going by the way?" He asked him.

Moria sat down and sighed like an old man "In the middle of Russia. Apparently, terrorist groups like to hide there" He answered "There"s a lot of s.p.a.ce after all and since the latest jamming devices arrived, it became the best kind of hiding spot"

"Russia, huh?" Arimane muttered then thought of the world"s map "It would take around an hour with this Eion plane, right?"

"Yeah, you can take a nap if you want to" Moria nodded and said. He then stood up and headed toward the rear of the plane "I"ll go sleep" He waved his hand and said before opening a door leading to a corridor, with small four bedrooms available.

"Arimane~" Tiria hugged him and called "Do you want to sleep with me?"

Arimane pushed her back "No. Could you stop hugging me?" He immediately rejected and Tiria sulked for a bit and then tried to drag Tieria inside one of the rooms.

"Are you drunk?" Tieria asked when she saw Tiria"s red face. She looked at the guys sitting at the bar "Did you actually give her something to drink?"

The squad members at the bar all looked away and refused to respond, they all knew Tiria was weak toward alcohol but they still gave some to her. Tieria sighed and she was the one who in the end dragged her friend to a room.

Arimane looked at the scene and shrugged. He just closed his eyes and laid back on his seat, ready to take a nap.

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He ultimately fell asleep and the plane arrived at its destination fifty minutes later. When it landed, Arimane stepped down while yawning. Tiria got out just after him with a sour expression and a big headache.

The place they had landed in was a sort of military base and an officer there led the squad to one of the hangars of the facility. When they entered that hangar, the members of the squad admired what they had in front of them.

Two big dark blue choppers equipped with heavy weaponry and multiple Eion systems "You will go to the objective on these. We"ll give you the pilots. But you won"t be able to use them for the operation" The officer who brought them here explained.

Moria just shrugged at those words, he knew that they weren"t going to give them those since it would be too simple. They would just have to bombard the enemy base and then leave. Apparently, the higher-ups really wanted to make them fight.

They departed a few hours after this and arrived at their destination after an hour or so. The choppers were then covered with an optical bash and the pilots stayed inside.

The squad was in a forest at the moment. Moria looked at the sun across the trees "Night will fall in a few hours too. We should get to the objective before that then attack in the middle of the night, the basic stuff. Let"s finish this by tomorrow" Moria declared and started running in a certain direction.

The squad soon followed him and Arimane looked at the hidden choppers for a second before catching up with everyone. Their speed was definitely not as high as a car or anything else, but with their enhanced body, they could still run at around forty miles per hour.

Arimane could even raise up to sixty per hour if he wanted to. And of course, it was their moderate speed. After thirty minutes of running, they stopped beside a small hill and observed the "town" that was a few miles away from them.

They set up a small camp there and hid their presence as much as they could. They also started equipping themselves. Arimane a.s.sembled the rifle and wore his coat. Then, along with some other people, started looking at the terrorist base with his binoculars.

"It seems that they are already rotating for the night shift" Tieria said as she spotted some armed men patrolling and others on watchtowers.

"You"re right" Erin nodded and looked at Arimane "Those guys in the towers, do you think you can take them out from here?"

Arimane nodded while looking through his binoculars "I think so. Between here and there, maybe there are around three miles. With the Eion rifle, I can take all of them out. But I would need at least thirty seconds between each shot" He explained.

"Scary kid" Gano who wasn"t that far from them, smirked and uttered. Erin just smiled and nodded.

"Thirty seconds should be okay. During the night, no matter who it is, people tend to get sleepy when they have nothing to do but watch an empty land. Some of them will likely really leave their post. Additionally, the area around the watchtowers are not really patrolled anyway and there"s only one person at the top" Erin said and everyone nodded.

Four hours later, the night had fallen and the squad had actually waited two additional hours to make sure most of them were asleep.

Arimane climbed to the top of the hill and laid down there with his rifle. And as expected, Tieria was beside him to act as his spotter. Meanwhile, the rest of the squad sneakily advanced toward the enemy base.

"First one, 30° to the north, 3650 meters" Tieria informed Arima and the latter pointed his rifle toward the target. He had also put a sort of huge silencer on the muzzle "Wind speed: 7 mph. Target"s elevation (If the target is higher or lower compared to the Arimane"s level): Nil, you are at the same level" Tieria finished and Arimane nodded.

He changed the settings of his scope a bit and put his hand above the barrel to move it slowly and carefully. At this distance, he couldn"t afford himself to be off by even a millimeter. After ten seconds, he breathed in and out and held his breath.

He put his finger on the trigger and pressed on it ten seconds later and a blue light escaped the barrel with a minimal noise. The recoil caused the biped to be buried in the ground but Arimane almost didn"t make any movement.

"Next" He said and pulled the bolt of the rifle. When the empty Eion bullet touched the ground, the reinforced gla.s.s of the watchtower was pierced and the head of the man in it exploded. And strangely, the gla.s.s didn"t make any sound as it just melted because of the Eion energy.

Tieria"s eyes widened as she looked through her binoculars and Jin, who had stayed with them, whistled from behind. He actually aimed for the headshot.

Arimane sighed and waited for the next instructions. He had just killed someone, and although he felt it now, the burden of having blood on your hands, he easily could withstand it "(Should I be happy that my first target was a terrorist?)" He wryly smiled and thought.

Tieria shook her head and looked at the next objective "+20°, 3750 meters, same wind, and elevation" She said after a few seconds.

Arimane nodded and shot a second time after twenty seconds. Meanwhile, the squad was approaching the town and only arrived when Arimane killed the last one of the three watchmen that could spot them.

Moria smiled and sneaked inside with the squad. They separated into two groups, each led by Moria and Erin respectively. Arimane looked through his scope one last time then put back the rifle in the case. Since the squad had entered in the town, he didn"t need to continue taking out the watchmen.

"Let"s go then" He stood up and said. Tieria and Jin looked at each other and shrugged before following him down the hill.

Arimane couldn"t help his squad from where he was, he could only allow them to enter without being spotted. He needed to go there now.

While they were running to join their squad inside the town. Jin suddenly stopped and looked at a small screen on his wrist. Jin was basically the technician of the group and he was also responsible to set up the drone which would probe the enemy"s position.

When that drone in question finished scanning the terrorist base, it placed itself above the area to observe the movements while sending the information to Jin. The latter looked through the data quickly at first and sent the information to Moria and Erin.

But he had suddenly stopped running when he saw something on the camera of the drone. Arimane and Tieria looked at him with confusion.

"s.h.i.t, that wasn"t in the plan!" Jin shouted then started running again "Quick! We need to reach that freaking town in five minutes!" He said to the two others.

Arimane and Tieria didn"t discuss and instantly began to run. They started sprinting and reached sixty miles per hour "What"s wrong?" Arimane then asked.

"My drone spotted five helicopters coming toward us! They"re not Eion propelled, but they"re armed enough to bombard this entire place!" He explained while sending the data to the entire squad "Furthermore, those choppers don"t have any official registration number. They"re most likely are on the terrorists" side"

Arimane and Tieria were shocked as they suddenly started hearing the sound of the pales. They looked behind and saw the choppers far away.

"Tch, five minutes was too optimistic, huh?" Jin muttered "Sir. Moria should send a call for help soon to the pilots, but they will most likely arrive too late"

The aerial vehicles in this world, particularly military ones, possess great detection systems. That"s why, "They are already pointing their weapons at us!" Jin shouted.

Arimane gritted his teeth and slowed down a bit until he was behind his two comrades. They were not that far from the town"s barricades. He put the rifle"s case on his back and breathed in. He kicked the ground very strongly, to the point it dug out the soil for a meter at least. He ran and caught both Tieria and Jin when he pa.s.sed by them.

He raised his speed to the maximum and started sprinting at a one hundred miles per hour "What!?" Jin and Tieria exclaimed when they realized what was happening to them.

At the same time, the machine gun of one chopper fired and touched the area behind Arimane as the AI didn"t expect a sudden rise in speed like this one. Even the men in the helicopters couldn"t believe as they saw some humans running at a hundred miles per hour.

In the end, Arimane made it in time and threw his two companions over the wall encompa.s.sing the town before jumping too, just after that, the aim of the machine gun was corrected and the wall was then scribbled with bullet holes. Fortunately, it wasn"t Eion but actual physical bullets.

Arima was panting violently and sat down. At the same time, an alarm resounded around the entire base and jolted awake everyone.

Moria clicked his tongue while he was cutting the throat of someone. And warned his group to disguise and spread around. The same order was issued by Erin.

Arimane rested and listened to the choppers while Tieria and Jin stared at him with a really strange expression. Arimane determined the choppers" relative position before running toward the closest watchtower. Jin and Tieria followed him.

Arimane opened the door of the tower and started jumping to climb it instead of using the circular staircase. When he arrived at the top, he saw one of the men he had killed and his headless body. His expression twitched and he gulped. He shook his head and opened his case.

He took out his rifle but a.s.sembled it differently this time. He took out a special bullet from a pouch and loaded it in the chamber. He pointed his rifle at the helicopter that fired at him and pressed the trigger.

Without the silencer, the noise resounded strongly and the bullet left the barrel. It reached the chopper in less than a second and created a huge hole on the front gla.s.s as the pilot died, and after that, the bullet that left the rifle was still intact and fell on the ground before making a beeping sound.

The men in the chopper were too focused on gaining back the control of the chopper that they failed to react.

Jin and Tieria arrived beside Arima just at the right moment to see one of the choppers exploding and taking two others with him, as the last two were touched by the shockwave and flew away in fear.