OLD-WORLD EXTRA

Chapter 195: Road Block II

Chapter 195: Road Block II

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Hello.

I'm not someone you know but...

I need to ask you something.

Can you tell me why?

Yes, you, the one reading this.

I beg you, tell me... why is this happening?!

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?!

WHY?!

"... Would they tell me?"

"No, not when asked like that."

"That was a bit... rude."

"Let's start over."

125, May, Day 11.

Hello, reader.

Listen to my story.

It looks like I survived another day at this shithole...

Man, I just don't know what to do.

I only wanted to help, but now I'm too deep to get out.

They called themselves Earth's Saviors, but they are the exact opposite of that.

I mean, why would they attack this random hunter?

What did he do?

They explain fuck all and expect us to understand.

Higher power this, higher power that, just shut up!

This higher power did nothing to help us, actually....

It's the main cause of our fucking problems, and now look at where it landed us.

A shitty-ass brotherhood.

GODDAMMIT!

"AUUGGGGH! FUCKING WHY?! WHY THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT HIM?!" The man roared.

His blank eyes soon left his terminal and gazed upwards at the ceiling as if giving up all hope of surviving.

"Calm yourself, recruit; this mission is of utmost importance. We can't have you distracting the others with your screaming."

"Keep in line or be killed."

The man looked at his new captain for a moment and then spoke, his voice laden with fear: "Are you seriously saying that? Do you not see our target?! LOOK AT HIM!"

Just as his words echoed in their compartment, the man began feverishly pointing at Emir in the distance.

"HOW CAN WE KILL HIM?!"

"He's..."

"....He's terrifying."

Frightening, insane, cold.

The man couldn't count on his fingers how many words would fit their target today.

And his captain, who appeared calm on the outside, felt the same as his cohort member.

They stood quiet for a while; the only sound present was their rapid breaths as they observed Emir....

Simply unable to take their eyes off him.

They watched as he took hold of a Fiend's foot, twisting and stabbing it from underneath, gutting it in the process.

He was killing all that was around him, and his twin swords made easy work of the monsters as their blood splashed on him.

Making him out to be a specter of death.

But that stillness was suddenly broken as someone entered their compartment with heavy steps.

"You both seem to be really scared of my friend over there..."

Both men stood in surprise and looked back in shock as they immediately saluted their leader

in unison.

"Liberation Army, New Recruit, Sir!"

"Liberation Army Cohort, Captain Sir!"

Shrugging his shoulders, their leader gestured behind him.

"It's time, brothers. C'mon, let's go; we've got a big fish to catch."

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"Lyra, I've got your back!"

"And I've got yours!"

Emma and Lyra stood back to back, with Emir joining them after killing a few more Fiends on

his way.

"You think they'll make their move soon?"

"ICE BOLT!"

Lyra shrugged her shoulders while Emma screamed:

"I WISH! I'M SICK OF CHANTING ICE BOLT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!"

Emir snickered while crushing a monster's skull with a single upward kick.

"Don't worry, you'll learn how to silently chant soon!"

"ICE BOLT!"

"Or maybe not."

"Fuck you too!"

Lyra chuckled at their banter and began a spree of cutting off ants' antennae.

She then proceeded to stab her gauntlets into their human-sized heads, killing them one by

one.

"EEEKKKKK!! GET THEM AWAY FROM ME!!" Emma screamed as she shot out a few more ice

bolts.

"What the hell is Jake doing? He should be getting rid of the weak ones." Emir complained as The stuffed a frog with its own tongue.

After stabbing its eyes, which were as big as his head, he looked behind him and jumped up, dodging another tongue-whip, this time filled with poison.

'Man, it's so weird fighting this many animals....'

'They would look normal if not for their massive size, weird body structure, unique colors,

and combination of other animal types.'

'Actually, they wouldn't be normal at all!'

Showing a smile, Emir turned to Lyra and rushed forward as he smashed his body through the

ant to her right, flinging it away.

"So?"

She broke off one's antennae and began skewering the other ants with it.

"He just said that he ran out of ammo and is now reloading the mags with our ammo crates."

"I see."

Emir nodded as he copied Lyra's move, killing another row of monsters.

"So the turret is out?"

"Yep." They both jumped back, as the place where they were just turned into a wall of ice.

"I got her."

Emir stepped forward and placed Emma on his shoulders.

"Enjoying the view?"

"Hell yeah, I aMMMM! STAY STRAIGHT!"

"I'll do my best."

He said as he jumped over the heads of countless monsters, running atop the horde.

A second passed, and Emir looked back at the volley of elemental spells that materialized at

their previous location.

"ICE BOLT!"

"We would've been cooked, haha!"

Emir tapped the mad woman's thighs, which squeezed his neck, and dodged to the right,

avoiding another volley of spells.

"Don't get too excited, Em; the real fight didn't even start."

"I know! I know! Can't you just let a woman express her joy?!"

He scoffed and threw her to the ground, an area clear of the many spell-casting monsters.

"UGH!"

Heh~

Lyra arrived next to them and giggled while helping her off the ground.

Emma scowled at Emir for his mistreatment but then turned her attention to the approaching

monsters.

"FIRE WALL!"

A wall of fire appeared before the monsters, burning all that dared to rush past.

Emir used that fire to his advantage and lured the monsters into its clutches.

Meanwhile, Lyra remained next to Emma, killing all that reached them.

But then a sudden beep echoed throughout all their neural networks, signaling the arrival of

the mastermind.

"Lyra?"

Emir asked as he kicked away a feline's mouth, shutting up its constant roars and killing it in

the process.

"Jake is there." She answered his unspoken question as she pointed southward.

He nodded and then stepped towards them.

Quickly picking them up, he placed them on his shoulders while turning around, facing the

south as per his HUD.

"Flash Step!"