A week passed, the resistance laid low from government surveillances as well as the White Sword while fooling around. But now they have waited long enough, Alden asked Carmilla to find out what and where the fourth demon is, but for now it's time to kill the third demon, an Earth Eater known as the Stygian Worm.
But the problem is it's confined in a military compound where security will be more heavy compared to last two missions. So they require more firepower and be on the full offensive.
Alex is seen on the rooftop overlooking the compound while Sara is driving a tricked out pickup truck facing to the front gates.
"Reaper here, I'm in position." Alex said through the comms
"Okay, Ready Akindele?"
"Ready when ya are!!!"
"Ok.....NOW!!!"
And with that, Sara steps on the gas at full speed and lowered the metal bar on the front of the hood designed as a battering ram. She broke down the gates then drifted sideways while bumping a few men along the way. The truck stops and Akindele bursts out from the back, dressed in some kind of bulletproof armor, and starts shooting with his heavy machine gun, while Sara shoots with two guns as well.
They military and soldiers from White Sword were shooting back as well, then out of the corner Alex came out with his scythe and kills them one by one.
Seeing Akindele and Sara playing the diversion well, he makes his way to the door. Upon entering, there were plenty of soldiers, as well big-ass parked military vehicles. Getting up close with his scythe may get difficult so he has to improvise.
Killing off two guys in two slashes, he picks up an assault rifle on the floor and starts shooting at them. Each of them, falling like flies, despite taking a few bullets himself, then picks up another and starts lighting them up until there are like 18 of them. Alex drops the gun and decides to kill them up close.
Alex pulled out his scythe and killed three guys in a three strikes, he deflects the shots from the fourth guy and kicked him and slashing the fifth then the fourth. He then spins to the sixth guy and upper-sliced the seventh. He ran toward three guys and jumped while spinning to kill three guys in a single slash and did a landing pose.
The remaining men began shooting which Alex rolled to the side and picked up a gun shot four guys until it ran out of ammo. He threw the gun at the guy and slashed him then to another and another until one was left standing, he decided to run but Alex couldn't risk him bringing backup so he threw his scythe at his back, killing him.
Alex went to retrieve his scythe but he was suddenly knocked backwards to the ground. He gets up and saw two men in white jumpsuits. One guy's was emitting lilac fire in his hands while the other guy has a green glowing orb floating at his hand.
"This is Reaper, I've encountered the magic enhanced superhumans." Alex said through the comms alerting his fellow comrades.
"Can you handle it?" Sara responded.
"Yeah, I'll make something up as I go"
The first guy threw his lilac fireball which Alex rolled to the side then backflip to avoid to second fireball. He then ran to the wall which he then wall run before tossing his scythe to the fire guy before dashing to him, grabbed his scythe and brought it down overhead which the guy dodged back. Alex blocked the second guy with the orb then slashed horizontally which the guy dodged again.
He knew it, he could tell these guys may be magically enhanced due to the experimental Mystic Serum however they may not have much battle experience.
The first guy threw his fireballs and dodged to the side and spin my scythe to try to deflect. One fireball got caught in the blade and redirected it to the wall. Alex takes a look at his blade for a second and it gives him an idea.
He spun his scythe then enters the stance, the guy with the orb runs to Alex to attack but Alex parries him attack by attack, then another guy threw a fireball but Alex turned around just in time to catch the fire with his blade and used it to hit the guy with the orb.
The two kept throwing their magic at him but he dodged, parried, deflected every single blow and none of them even touched the reaper. Alex slashed down the orb attack followed by an upper slash then slice horizontally at his neck which choked before falling down then 180° horizontally slash behind him, catching the incoming fireball, spinning the scythe before redirect it back to its shooter, knocking him back.
When the fireball guy recovered, he was shocked to see the reaper suddenly appeared in front of him with his bloodied scythe and in a pose as if he just the slash, it was the last thing he saw as his head falls off the floor.
After Alex decapitated the fireball guy, he gripped his scythe with two hands as he face off the orb guy. He lunged forward, attempting to hit him with his orb but Alex rolled past him and dug his scythe to his back, killing him.
Alex took out his blade and the guy falls down.
"Problem solved, I'm heading in deeper to the compound." he said through the comms as he heads for the stairs.
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Elsewhere in the government's headquarters, Governor-General Strahm was sitting at his desk. He had received a notification on his device indicating an update, this update shows a map of the city with a pin on top an abandoned school, the resistance's hideout and base of operation. A victorious smirk appeared on his face as he dialed his snivelling assistant in a hat.
"Cypher! Ready the men!!! We got them just as planned."
Strahm sticks on his phone for a while before responding.
"No, leave the White Sword out of this, we'll be the ones to take them ourselves."
Then his smirk grew bigger.
"Also....send her in. I want to give their dark and brooding psycho a little surprise."
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Cutting down anyone in anyone in his path, bodies littered the hallways, Alex comes face to face with the Stygian Worm.
It's a giant worm as tall as a tree. Brownish colored scales but littered with cuts, Four orange eyes and a flowered-mouth with so many teeth. Technically this demon isn't really the problem since it's all chained up.
The real problem is the men and a couple of of magic-enhanced superhumans defending it, they kept shooting at Alex as he deflect bullets and running to them and slice them. Deciding to ignore them, he dug his blade to the worm as it screams and jerks from the pain.
Alex then continues to climb and dice, and when he reached the top he digs his scythe at the mouth repeatedly as the defenseless worm shrieks in pain. He maneuvers himself to the eyes and slashes one of them, he raised his scythe to strike again but one of the magic-enhanced superhuman and blasted at him.
Alex notices this so he moves out of the way, falling and landing to the ground. But the blast hits the restraints and destroys it, and now that the chains are weakened, the worm struggles through the restraints, falling off one by one until it breaks free.
The Stygian Worm gave an angry roar then dives to its torturers. The demon moves around, decimating everyone in the room. But when it comes for Alex, he springs off the wall to dodge the worm that was going to eat him.
Alex recovered to see the demon looking back at him with its remaining eyes, the standoff felt like an entire minute before the worm dives down and digs a hole to crawl into. Alex tries to run after it but he's too late, he could never be fast enough to follow it in the tunnel.
"Dammit!" he cursed himself.
"Crowe! Can you read me?!!" Sara said through her comms as Alex puts his finger on his earpiece.
"I read you, I'm sorry, the demon got away."
"Forget the demon! Our school is under attack!"
"What!!!"
"We need to retreat now!!!"
".... Understood."
Alex sprints to the exit to regroup with the others, first the Stygian Worm got away and now the resistance base is under attack. After two mission were successful, the third victory would be too good to be true.
He'll worry about this later, for now he needs to rescue his friends.