Chapter 80 – Casino Raid
Meanwhile, inside the prison, Joan and her crews were watching the feed from their CCTV cameras.
When Joan saw how Mia destroyed the yakuza gangs, she began to sweat.
"I thought he should have only less than 500 VIT. How did he withstand all those bullets!?"
She turned around and glare at her crews.
"Only those with over 1,000 VIT is immune to 14mm! I want his status report from the admins!"
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The commotion and the gunshot sounds attracted the local residents in the anime district. Many curious souls rushed to the scene, hoping to catch a glimpse of the chaos.
Meanwhile, a silhouette of a young girl with an exoskeleton dashed through the night. She avoided all lights as if she was a ghost or a vampire.
The silhouette was Mia. He had already left the area, and he was heading toward the prison in the middle of this city. Crystal also pointed out the direction for him.
[Turn left at the next intersection. Ignore the grand building beyond the fences. That's their house of parliament.]
[See the concrete wall over there? That's a dummy prison to fool the local press. Don't jump in there!]
[The real prison is under the casino building with the billboard sign "I will survive." It's similar to the underground facility you had been, so the layout should be identical to that.]
[I don't have the visual. You will have to figure it out when you get inside. The entrance should locate in that casino.]
Mia looked around while he was dashing forward. At this moment, getting out of the crime scene took priority.
As he ran on the sidewalk, police vehicles flew over Mia, rushing at the area that Mia fought with the yakuza gang. Fortunately, no one paid attention to him.
Mia followed Crystal's instruction and got to the "I will survive" casino.
This "I will survive" was a hybrid of a casino and a hotel. It looked like a flat condominium with two wings, but there was an indoor stadium in the middle of them. The central dome was the main casino building while both sides served as hotel rooms.
Mia exhaled and increased his mental concentration, activating his battle mode once more.
When Mia's battle mode activated, all of his five sense sharpened, and his sixth sense flooded his brain with information about his surroundings.
Although Mia could still see everything like normal humans, he had another layer of vision on top of his sight as if he had a hallucination or a conscious dream. Life signatures, materials, and environment appeared in his mind as an infrared 3D-map.
Mia shut his eyes and concentrated on his 3D image in his brain.
Life signature of the people inside became clearer. The body heat of humans within the building's ground floor to the third floor and a story below moved around on the 3D map.
Mia began separating the civilians and prison guards, counting their number.
'355 ... 360 ... 367 noncombatants.'
'55 ... 70 ... 85 ... 87 armed guards.'
'Seven armed guards on the ground floor. 40 on B1, and another 40 on B2.'
'How many are there on the upper floors? ... Damn it, too many!'
"Hu."
Mia exhaled out a trail of fire and the flammable gas. His eyes transformed into snake eyes.
When Mia was in a psychic battle mode, his eyes usually glowed in a burning red color.
When Mia was in a casual state, his eyes became yellow as they were the eye color of the mutated.
Now, those two colors mixed together, turning them into orange, just like the current Tama's color.
Mia rotated his left arm, warming it up after he had healed the injury from the 20mm cannon.
"Tama, I'm going to go in fast. Don't bother drinking anyone's blood. Just focus on killing if you can."
*Mrrr* (No food? Lame.)
"You can eat them later once we secure the prisoner."
*Nom-Nom?* (Can I eat the prisoner, too?)
"… No. If you do it, there will be no jelly for you."
*Meh!* (Eh!? I'll call the PETA! Pet abuser!)
Ignored Tama's tantrum, Mia switched to a shooting stance and aimed at two guards in front of the door.
*BANG*
*BANG*
As he pulled the trigger, Mia dashed toward the entrance and kicked the door open. The muzzle pointed at another guard in the lobby.
*BANG*
Another bullet hole appeared on the lone security's head.
As soon as the gunshot sound echoed through the lobby, every bystander screamed and ran away from Mia.
He ignored all witnesses. Without allowing the remaining guards to fight back, Mia stormed inside the casino's first floor and hunted for the four men with weapons.
The securities in the casino were trained soldiers. Without an order from their superior, they took out their pistol and fired at Mia.
*PU*
*PU*
*PU*
All shells became flattened pieces of metals when they hit Mia's skin. Little did they know, their bullets were nothing but popcorn to him.
Mia simply stood still to bait for the shooters. Once they showed their head, Mia's muzzle was already aimed at the target.
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
All four guards went down. Their dying face also revealed a shocked expression, believing that Mia should have been dead before them.
Tama spread his five tentacles and reaped any human she found. Although Mia told her not to eat anyone, Tama snatched a few hearts from dead bodies and collected them without Mia's noticing.
After Mia had cleared the first floor, he rescanned the layout of this building with his sixth sense, using the 3D map image in his mind.
Similar to the previous facility, to get to the secret prison, Mia had to use a hidden elevator.
Unfortunately, it did not connect with the first floor. The elevator's door was on the top floor of the casino.
As Mia did not have the luxurious time for the dungeon climbing or adventuring in a demon lord's castle, he took a shortcut.
Looking around, the majority of ordinary people had already left the casino because of the gunshot sounds. Now, only wardens and guards remained inside the stadium.
He pointed his hand forward to the elevator shaft direction, fire gathered before his palm, creating a meteorite fireball.
Pyrokinesis: Fireball Level 100 + 1 activated.
As if Mia realized something, he pointed another palm upward and created another fireball over his head.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
Two fireballs were released and exploded. One of them destroyed the ceiling above Mia while the other created a hole in the walls, revealing the inside of the elevator shaft.
However, the explosive force was beyond Mia's control as a sea of fire devour everything on the first floor, second floor, and the third floor.
Series of confirmed kills flooded Mia's notification panel.
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Even though all kills increased Mia's EXP by a small amount, it added up when he slaughtered a hundred people at once. There were innocent bystanders and ordinary guests of the hotel, but Mia no longer cared at this moment.
"Hmm."
Mia groaned in his throat as he bathed the sea of fire from the explosion. The fire did not burn or harm Mia. Instead, he could feel that he recovered a bit of his breathing and his stamina.
*MEW!* (I LOVE IT HOT!)
Tama was busy eating cooked human bodies, but Mia did not notice it.
His concentration was on something else. In his brain, a simulation of physics formulas and a collapsed building sequences were being calculated.
Mia pointed his palm at the sides, aiming at main pillars of the dome structure.
15 more fireballs launched in a different direction at once.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
Flowers of fire engulfed everything within the explosive range.
*CREAK*
After the series of the explosion, a cry of bending metal resonated along with the symphony of burning tables, chairs, humans, and all materials around Mia.
In a few seconds after the scream of building mainframe, the entire dome collapsed.
Mia stepped backward three steps and stood still, watching the entire stadium to collapse on himself.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
Within five seconds, the cloud of dust mixed with the sea of flame, dousing the majority of spreading the fire. At the same time, the destruction killed everyone within the collapse zone, except one.
Mia's orange eyes glowed within the fog of grey dust. Surrounding him in the shape of an oval circle, Mia was covered in an electric force field.
[Mia, what the heck did you do!? Why did the building explode!?]
"Too many guards on the 2nd and 3rd floor. I'm cleaning houses."
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