Viper had no idea what had happened but to find a clean pistol that she was used to in her fingertips was more than enough to prove the point. Of course, she felt weird that there was some sort of message that appeared right at the corner of her eyes but right now, the priority was to survive.
She grabbed the gun, released the safety, and started to fire at the faceless goblins. The consistent sounds of gunshots had caused her to be the new centre of attention which allowed Moth to grab one from the side and smashed his hand through its body.
Moth was equally surprised but similar to Viper, a message emerged from the corner of his eyes indicating that his right hand had been fortified temporarily for a minute. "Is this your doing, Muramasa??" Moth questioned as he blew the innards out of another goblin."
"Do not question, just save the Defence Minister," Gen reported that he had yet another bout of fizzling headache seeing his Thought Points had gone down by one. At the same time, he quickly shifted his attention to Needle. Seeing that he was still well and alive, Gen did not bother about him since his main objective now was to get answers to what are these faceless goblins.
However, just because Gen had let his eyes shift away for a second, two of the Faceless Goblins started to merge together in an instant and grabbed Blaire. Both of the assassins who were facing the remaining Faceless Goblins were unable to react in time, allowing the newest threat, an even larger sized Faceless Goblin to put Blaire's head into its mouth and crush it.
The body was struggling initially but the moment the Faceless Goblin gobbled his head, the rest of the body contracted in spasms before turning lifeless. It was then the larger Faceless Goblin looked towards Moth.
"Shit!" Gen was unable to react in time even with this new mystical power that he had. Even though the job had been completed, he had no answers for the time being that this particular minister might have. While he could possibly dig out answers through the internet, it would be a lot easier hearing it from the minister himself.
"The mission is over. Commence Phase 3, retreat through the underground car park." Gen gave new instructions but the three Assassins simultaneously refused the command.
"The situation does not allow me to move away." Needle reported.
"Aye, even if we retreat now, that mysterious magical power is blocking our way." Moth said.
"You mean that big ass Faceless Goblin." Viper had managed to evade and stabbed the last small faceless Goblin with her heels and coincidentally released the final bullet of the first spare clip. She quickly reloaded the last clip and pointed the pistol at the large faceless goblin who seemed satisfied in eating the minister's head.
"System, can I break out my operatives from this magical power barrier?" Gen adapted quickly and asked this new foreign System that resides in his head.
"As long as you have sufficient Thought Points. You are able to do so." The System reported.
"Do I?" Gen asked once more.
"No. You need Ten." It was then Gen looked at the hologram that showed the status log of the thought points used and the remaining thought points as well as the regeneration rate of said thought points.
"Half an hour to full Thought Point regeneration."
There was no way they were going to survive for half an hour.