Chapter 87 – Rampaging Hydra
"HYDRA!!"
Screams and panicking cries came from people behind the collapsed wall as a twin-headed hydra appeared.
Staring into the city and the chaotic scene, Amro hesitated if he should eat these people. They did not suit his appetite.
"So many foods, but they're too weak."
Krastel had another idea, "Food."
"Eat them if you want. I'll go after the strong one."
"Food!"
Krastel drooled as he watched the crowd of soldiers gathering in front of them.
Unable to resist his glutton drive, Krastel activated his psychic skills, and his eyes glowed in red light.
Temperature drastically reduced from the 30 degree Celsius to minus 200 Celsius within a second, which turned all moisture and liquid in the radius of 100 meters into condensed glacial and snowflakes.
A team of soldiers, who stood within the range of Krastel's skill, stopped moving as their blood had been frozen.
Once the soldiers turned into ice statues, Krastel extended his long tongue, coiling one of the men and dragging him into his mouth. He chewed the solidified human as if he was eating ice cream.
Amro clicked his tongue as he disliked cold environment. His eyes ignited on fire as he activated his power, which he used to destroy the wall. It took him ten seconds to gather his strength into his eye to fire another [Blast] shot into the city.
*BOOM*
Instead of hitting everything before him with an invisible flaming cannonball like Mia's [Blast] version, it was more like a short-range laser beam.
Everything in his line of sight disappeared and replaced with a sea of fire.
As the origin of Mia's "Blast" skill, Amro's firepower surpassed him by Miles!
"Now, I'm hungry."
Amro strolled into the city, passing the glacial area which was on fire. Tentacles on his back began doing the work, collecting every living being. Within a minute, he rounded a total of eight soldiers with each of his back-arms.
"Food," Krastel looked at the struggling people, wanting to eat them.
"They're mine. Catch your own food."
"…"
The hydra stopped proceeding into the city as they feasted on the captured humans.
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The local military forces brought their mechs and their tanks to surround Amro.
20 Robots, armed to the teeth, and ten tanks positioned around Amro in a half-circle.
Another 15 mechs, which had exited the city through another gate, stationed behind Amro and kept the distance of 500 meters away.
They were getting ready to the assault on this intruder.
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Meanwhile, Mia and Brim left the government house and were on their way to the recycling factory. Once they could get to the junkyard, aka the extraction point, Thorn and other Tautog mechs would escort them back to their base.
That was the plan.
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In this apocalypse world, everyone understands how deadly mutated monsters are. Among the top of the food chain among beasts, one of them is the hydra race.
Now, Amro, the two-headed hydra, has breached the wall of Mafdet City. If no one can stop this monster, this Mafdet City will become another ruined city among the wasteland.
Hydras are the common enemy of mankind and mutants. Work together with them and eliminate this threat, or Shelter 88 can be its next target after this city fall.
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- Kill Amro, the first-head hydra
- Kill Krastel, the second-head hydra
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- 100 Diamonds for participating.
- 500 Diamonds for last shot award.
- 500 Diamonds for the MVP reward.
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Because of the quest notification, Mia's concentration slipped for a few seconds.
That few seconds proved fatal. Over twenty flying drones at the size of a car, armed with 20mm cannons, dove down from the dark sky and surrounded them.
Both Mia and Brim had to stop their feet as a shell from these cannons could easily kill them.
Mia was frustrated. He had detected and tried to avoid these drones, but they seemed to know about his location.
*Mowow?* (Eh, little miss, did you have something against these locals?)
The corner of Mia's mouth twitched, "Maybe. Those bananas hate my family and me."
The stalemate lasted for less than a minute as an APC came. The vehicle parked, and a familiar face female officer stepped out.
Joan took a loudspeaker and shouted, "Uriel Mia! You should have received the message from the higher-ups! Let's stop fighting and come with us! We wish to work with you!"
Mia frowned in disbelief.
'Is she drunk?'
The Joan Mia knew usually yelled at him in a forceful tone. However, her tone at this moment was different.
"We don't need that friend of yours. Your friend and go and leave the city, but we need you here!"
Now, Mia was surprised, "Wow, is that a new trick?"
Brim looked around in a panic, "M-Miss, do you know her?"
"Sort of, she was my trainer before I converted."
"Ah, she's quite kind, isn't she?"
"Will you say the same if I tell you that she's the one behind your abduction?"
"That bitch deserves a thousand butt slaps! That fat ass has to be shaken to the point they sagged like grand mamma's boobs!"
"…"
Sam used one of his tentacle mouths to bite Brim's butt.
"OUCH!"
*Meow!* (No vulgar words!)
Mia ignored Brim and Sam's bickering. Looking around and feeling everything with his sense, Mia believed that he could get away from the drones. However, he would be the only one surviving as Brim might not make it through the barrages of multiple cannons from all sides.
Judging from the changed attitude of Joan, Mia decided to take risks. If Brim could get away from the city, he could always fight and run away later.
Mia passed the earpod, his wristwatch and the bottle of potion, which had been unsealed, to Brim.
"Use the earpod and the wristwatch to ask for help. Also, take this medicine to Crystal."
"Are you going to surrender!?"
"No. I'll be having a talk with that woman. You go back first, and I'll find my way home later."
"Miss, you must not! They torture mutants like us like we're Frankenstein! You can't go with them!"
Mia took a deep breath, "Brim, I'll be frank. You're a dead-weight. I can always escape by myself, but you're dragging me down. Get your banana ass outta here when you have a chance!"
Without waiting for a response from the shocked Brim, Mia walked toward Joan with his hands above his head.
"Let him go, and I'll go with you. If you play a trick, I'll fOOking bitch slap you like a wet banana!"
Joan's face turned dark as Mia's words were too resemble Uriel Min. She was so furious that she wanted to kill him right now.
Unfortunately, Gabriel Lobmak forced her this duty.
With a cracked voice and a stiffed smile, Joan proceeded with her negotiation.
"Okay. He can leave. You definitely have to stay."
"Fine. Then what?"
Joan grinned as she fiddled with her transparent game panel, "Come closer. Don't worry, I won't bite."
"Open a path for him first, then we talk."
Thinking for a while, Joan waved her hands. The drones opened a path for Brim as they withdrew from the road.
Mia turned around to look at Brim, "Go."
"Err …"
"Go NOW!"
"O-Okay!"
*Mow* (We'll see you later, Miss. Take care.)
Brim ran away as he put Crystal's earpod on.
Looking at the running Brim, Mia was still concerned about Joan's scheme. He kept looking at Brim until he could not sense this clumsy pilot anymore.
"It's just us now. Get in the vehicle, and we'll talk."
"Disarm your drones, and we'll talk."
"Geez, you're a worrywart. Fine!"
All drones moved further away from their location as Joan signaled her soldiers in the APC.
Mia steeled his heart and followed Joan into the vehicle. Once they got inside the back seat of the APC, Joan displayed a picture of a mech with her game panel.
"Have you ever seen this?"
Mia's frown deepened. It was an ancient Prometheus-Series Armored Mech of the 30th-century, which was considered outdated in his world. However, its performance was still better than the local mechs in the game.
"This is our Prometheus Prototype. It's a mech from the 30th-century."
"And how does it have anything to do with me?"
"Here's the problem. We can't import everything from the original model because of the tech tree restriction. However, we created a pseudo robot by using a loophole in the game."
Joan glared at Mia with jealousy and envy as she continued talking.
"Because of that loophole, no human can pilot this machine … but all members from the Golden Generation can."