In a split-second, he was right beside Brandyn, and he followed up with a barrage of punches. Each punch had bone-crushing force and his unstoppable barrage forced Brandyn to the wall of the room. Even with the exoskeleton, his durability hadn't changed all that much. As much as he tried to handle the attacks, his block would get broken apart by the very high force of each attack.
"I can't stop it!!" Brandyn screamed out in his head, struggling to stop himself from falling back.
[HP: 19/60]
Brandyn received a warning about his HP, something that he hadn't seen in a long time. If he was to continue like this, he could possibly lose his life.
*VZZ*
There was the quiet sound of his eyes glowing more brightly and the man he was fighting even acknowledged this. However, he was not scared and just continued by throwing another punch.
*catch*
"grr..."
Brandyn made a low growl as he held the rocky fist in his palm. Now he had no care for the mission, or his opponent's life. All he had to do was win.
Using his Bolt skill, a spear of electricity grew in his hand and, viciously, he stabbed it into the man's chest. The lightning tore through his tissue, leaving damage at even the cellular level.
From this point on, the fight seemed to be more in Brandyn's favour. With the use of the exoskeleton, each movement and strike that he dished out was more explosive and destructive. The fight was close and both fighters were able to land several attacks of their own.
Brandyn, using his superior technique, slipped past 2 straight punches like a professional boxer then rose up to land an uppercut right on his opponent's chin. This sudden attack, that had landed just in the right place, sent him falling to the floor. Seeing this, Brandyn threw out a finisher slash, amplified with his Rejuvenating Slash skill to make his opponent even weaker.
With these 2 attacks in unison, his opponent lost consciousness and fell to the floor with still, dead-like eyes that stared at the ceiling.
Above this man, Brandyn stood like a warrior with clenched fists and bone-chilling purple eyes.
His rationality then soon came back to him. His archdemonic powers began to fade away and he then remembered what he was here for. Drawing too much attention would be unnecessary so he ran towards the locked briefcase that was just a step behind him now.
"It's locked! What am I supposed to do here?" Brandyn wondered, with heavy breathing as he looked around to find any openings in it.
This guy was not dead and he could tell, as he was still moving very slowly across the floor. He only had seconds and this was not a good situation.
"Alright. This exoskeleton enhances pure force the most right? Let's see if I can yank this thing open." Brandyn proposed as he snatched the briefcase off the desk that it laid on.
*VRRR*
The exoskeleton started to use high levels of force as he gripped the opposite ends of the briefcase, using all his force to just create a small gap in it.
"Come on, come on!"
*crreeak*
*CRACK*
With seconds of struggle, the lock cracked right open and flew right across the room. Luckily, it went past Brandyn's face, but he wasn't bothered about that. He simply wedged open the briefcase and saw more than 15,000 marks inside the briefcase. It was filled with 20-mark notes and each rack of notes had 2,000 marks worth of notes.
It took him a while to try and fit all of the extra notes on him but he had a lot of pockets and open space in his outfit, so he managed to steal 18,000 marks.
"Oh yeah! Alright, I must leave out that way. I'll just keep this exoskeleton, so I steal more." Brandyn said.
As he thought this, he was thinking about stealing another exoskeleton but there was no place for him to put them except for the one on his body.
Exiting through the main door, he just ran right back into the forest opposite the village then continued running until he was far from the village that he was just at. At his level of speed, he was able to get back to the outpost in just half an hour.
Reaching the locked door, he just knocked on the door and Carbine was there to open the door. Also, he didn't even look the slightest bit tired.
"Is the mission complete?" He asked, while looking around to check for any abnormal movements from the forest.
Brandyn, who looked far puffier than usual, just dumped out the several thousand marks that he had stored up inside his hoodie and pockets.
[Quest Complete!]
[+100XP]
[+1 Stat Point]
"You stole this much?! They really just had that briefcase I was talking about?"
"Yeah. It was pretty hard to get open, but I just used this exoskeleton." Brandyn said, while clicking the exoskeleton to get out of it.
"This is amazing! Here's 3,000."