"Hey, what kind of armor is that?""No idea… It sure looks strange."
Inside the capital city of Rochdale 2 guards made small talk as they guarded the eastern gate that lead from the low cla.s.s residential district to the area were more influential citizens lived. How they were talking about was a strange looking monster hunter that was walking around half suspiciously, in fact the only thing thing that made the guards able to identify the person as a monster hunter was the black tag hanging from her neck.
"Excuse me, I have a question I"m hoping you could answer for me"
As the strange hunter approached them she waved in a cutetsy manner and spoke in a bright girly voice that the 2 guards somehow couldn"t outright dismiss.
"What is it?"
"What"s behind that gate? Is it some kind of tressue?"
Pointing to the solid metal gate behind the guards still keeping up her cutesy appearance even while carrying a sharply loaded a.s.sault rifle dressed in full combat gear with and wearing a black mask with a skull painted on it Lux managed to somehow charm the guards.
"Ah, you must be new here. This is the one of the gates to the inner city."
"Oh~ Can I enter?"
"Sadly not."
Faced with a flat out refusal Lux"s smile grew wider under her mask.
"Is that so... Are all outsiders banned from entering?"
"Yeah, to enter you"ll have to register as a citizen and pay about 10 years of taxes to receive an upgraded citizen status."
"Okay…"
Looking quite dejected Lux started walking away, befores stopping as if she suddenly thought of something.
"Then what would happen if someone like me jumped over the wall? Just hypothetically?"
Seeing it as nothing more than a slightly awkward joke one of the guards responded in kind.
"Then a lot of highly skilled guards will most likely try to restain or kill you so don"t do that please~"
"Well that"s perfect then, don"t try to stop me please or I will kill you without mercy."
Completely dropping her act before she did a few quick jumps in place before pulling off her bullet proof mask and giving the guards a bloodthirsty smile that completely froze up being subjected to that kind experience.
"Then I"ll be off, goodbye~"
Bending down Lux took a short deep breath before she shot off leaving deep cracks in the ground as she leapt over the 6 meter tall wall with ease. As she reached the peak of her jump Lux quickly surveyed for possible landing areas and found what looked like a small spa.r.s.ely populated market and a smile formed on her face as she lit up the att.i.tude control system.
(Time to pick a fight..)
Landing in the middle of the market Lux kicked up dust as she broke the stone pavement below her.
"Wha!?-"
"HIIII!!"
"Mommy!"
Understably the crowd was quite freaked out when something came cras.h.i.+ng down from the sky without warning as some of them were even hit with rock fragments. Waiting for a bit of the dust to clear Lux killed her emotions as she took a deep breath before switching over to pure air supplied directly into her bloodstream by various cybernetic implants.
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"Over here! Someone"s hurt!"
Proving their elite status serval knights and guards arrived only a minute after something had landed in the middle of eastern marketplace just before noon. Spreading out and surrounding the area the guards quickly evacuated all affected citizens as they inquired about situation.
"What is going on here!?"
"S-something fell from the sky! I just managed to see it before it landed and it looked like a person!"
Getting a response out of one of the less injured sellers the knight captain leading the quick response force instantly made his decision based on years of experience.
"a.s.sume anti demon formation! Mages ready anti personnel spells!"
As the last dust cleared the some 20 guards mages and knight had encircled the crater as the person that made it came into view. It was a slim figure wearing solid military boots that looked to be made out of pure metal with clothing that looked like high cla.s.s armor and something more alien at the same time. Joints and its chest were heavily armored while only little attention were given to extremities with a strange black and white skull mask on the creature"s face.
"LAST CHANCE TO SURRENDER!"
Following his training to the letter the knight captain made the mistake of allowing Lux the first move.
["Interesting, it"s been almost 500 years since someone told me to surrender. Normally when they seem my mask they just pray for a quick death or make pace with their G.o.ds."]
The creature spoke mocking words in a strange distorted voice that made the knight captain certain that it really had been that long since someone asked it for mercy as a chill went down his spine and his vast experience told him that he could not face this creature without backup.
"CALL FOR BACKUP! REST OF YOU RESTRAIN IT!"
"""SIR YES SIR!"""
"HII! Yes sir!"
Shouting to the young recruit next to him that ran with all her might away from the scene the knight captain and the rest of his crew sprang into action.
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"Hey Dax?"
In the middle of a lesson on emergency sealing of s.p.a.ce suits the archangel Solaris suddenly spoke up with a serious look on her face.
"What?"
"You said that some bugs had shown themselves to your adorable second in command."
"Yeah I did, what"s your point?"
"Shouldn"t you, you know, crush them?"
"Nah, no need."
Having a far off look on his face Solaris got even more curious.
"Why?"
"Because they managed to p.i.s.s off my adorable second in command, a commendable, but ultimately completely foolish achievement that they will very soon come to regret."
Felling Dax had something more to say Solaris kept quiet as Dax continued.
"There"s only a handful of people that had ever matched me in a single field of combat, not to talk about serval. Lux has an terrifyingly good sense for close combat after completing her training. I"ve only ever managed to fight her to a draw while keeping strictly to that type of engagements, and above all she"s downright terrifying when she has a grudge against the enemy."
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["A element found to be in connection with this sad excuse of a kingdom has targeted the Galactic Empire, as such I will purge all opposition. This is the last chance to surrender, throw away your weapons, get down on your knees and put your arms behind your head and you will not be harmed, resist and I"ll have to pick parts of you out of my armor for the next week."]
Speaking in a voice that reached the entire city in the same time while seeming to chill the entire local atmosphere around Rochdale by several degrees.
"HOLD THE CREATURE BACK AT ALL COSTS!"
As knights charged in their heavy armor, guards worked hard at evacuating surrounding civs and mages channing lethal attack spells time seemed to slow down for Lux as she affixed a bayonet to her rifle while she spoke in a almost disappearing voice.
"I"m sorry."
Completely cracking the stone pavement below her Lux seemed to skip frames as she disappeared from sight. Her first target didn"t even manage to react before his skull was completely crushed by her knee as the guy next to him had his throat opened by a bayonet and the guy behind him got his neck broken by Lux simply using him to break her momentum before she crashed into a building and stopped in place as she exhaled all the build up carbon dioxide in a single heavy breath before she launched off and completely smashed the building she set off from.
"s.h.i.+t!"
Noticing last second that he was the monsters next target the knight captain hit the dirt and swung his sword with all his strength at the same time. Feeling his sword connecting his arms immediately became numb as he felt his trusted partner fall out of his hands he was just extremely happy to actually survive after he had confirmed that he still had his arms.
"Interesting… Guess I gotta start talking this seriously."
After having decimated ¾ of the knights and guards the remaining opposition started proving problematic in a straight up melee. Switching off the safety she brought her rifle up to her shoulder and turned it to fully automatic before squeezing the trigger.
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"Sounds like she"s started.."
Picking up the faint sound of gunfire in the distance from inside a bustling monster hunters guild Lilly wore a difficult face as she turned to Terra that didn"t look like she had an issue with what they were currently doing.
"Are you really okay with this?"
"Of course not, this is per very the definition terrorism."
"Then why exactly are we going along with this plan?"
"Because I don"t have to agree with it, I just have to follow and hope he made the correct decision, and up till now he has every single time. Or at least that"s what Lux told me when I asked her the exact same question last night."
"I see…"
Looking like she was thinking over a bunch of things Lilly fell quiet as she taught about a bunch of things before answering with a determined look on her face.
"Then I guess I"ve got to ask Dax a bunch of questions when I see him again."
Looking like she had more or less accepted the current situation Lilly once more focused on the surroundings and scanned the guild with mana before she froze up completely.
"We have contact."
Turing Terra"s attention she only just managed to see what looked like some sort of throwing knife that she only just managed to block with her arm.
"s.h.i.+t! Lilly!"
Immediately ripping out the knife as her body started healing Terra drew her sword as Lilly formed a gathered up wind at the tip of her feet and kicked the table they had been sitting at towards their attacker as she formed blades of compressed air.
"Iris we contact!"
["Busy!"]
"s.h.i.+t! Lux we have contact! Iris too!"
["Same here! Draw out the fight I"ll be there as soon as possible!"]
"f.u.c.k! A simultaneous attack huh?"
Regretting that she didn"t bring her rifle after all Terra dodged another knife meant for her face as she closed the range sword in hand.