Dante's P.O.V
The moment lance shot out from the trees in front of me and duke, he was accompanied by a towering figure that its size could easily surpass the surrounding trees.
Duke and I were frozen in fear by the overflowing dark mana that was flowing out of its very being, in which the creature had a very similar figure to dante of a humanoid hamji, but instead had multiple arms about 3 in each side and it had a very skeletal facial structure… just like boa's corrupted form. I tried to move but was stopped by duke, who just kept his intense focus on the colossal monster in front of us.
"…dante, don't move just yet." Duke told me with a very dead serious expression on his face, as the humongous hamji in front started to stare down at them and remain silent… watching them… as if waiting for them to make a move like a predator watching its prey. "Every action we do emits mana… these Yoma's can't sense minor mana signature, but if you even dare getting it's attention, then you're done for... so again, don't… move."
I nodded and remain in my current position, not daring to make any sort of movement… as before we know it, the Yoma started to retract away and was about to move past us…
'hmmm… so basically they're technically too blind to notice things that are very little… almost just like their height… dwarfing the surrounding gigantic tree, they can barely notice the plants or even grass.'I thought well about it, understanding the situation at hand… until, duke spoke up while releasing a sudden quick sigh of relieve.
"Alright, so let still try and remain quiet, as we try and help lanc-." Duke was suddenly caught off by a fast-moving object, that seemed to be heading towards the chest of the yoma, instantly gaining its attention and driving it some few meters away. The dust cleared to relieve that the object thrown was lance's spear, as I turned to back to see lance in a after pose of a throw. He's gears really messed up and a very ticked off expression on his face, after the throw he sped directly at the yoma prompting me and duke to call him back from the sudden charge."What are you doing you idiot, that's a yoma for god's sake." Duke tried to call out his name and get his attention… but lance was so determined, managing to dodge the Yoma's large claws that who brought down on lance, in hopes of crushing him, but lance immediately roared out and brought his fist back and with a big push, he jabbed the bottom of his spear facing him, while still impaled in the chest of the yoma.
"Sacred arm: dark strike!"
lance called out, instantly enlarging his spear to push back the yoma, while a massive amount of voltage flowed through the spear, also electrocuting the yoma as it made an impact at the side of a nearby mountain. When lance landed close to us, with his spear now back to normal, he almost collapsed to the ground, but just before I could help catch him, he sent a glare at my direction and brought himself up.
Duke walked to us, and immediately brought out his gun in his right hand, pointing directly at lance's head, with a very stoic look on his face.
"Before I blow your brains out, how dare you go after the other teams, you rat." Duke spat out, as his gaze turned icy cold, but lance just stood there and returned a furious glance at duke before removing the gun pointed at his face. "Get the heck out of my way bastard, I have to go back to my team-."
Lance was caught off by duke, who still brought his gun back at lance face, clicking the trigger and ready to shoot. I went towards duke and proceeded to touch his forearm that had the gun, but instead of duke stopping, he just sent a glare at me and spoke out.
"Get your hands off me dante, if you don't also want to collect a round of lead straight to the head." Duke threatened but I kept on, hardening my gaze… as a very dark silence filled the area… but then, in a flash. Lance pushed the gun another way and tried to stab duke at the chest, but duke counter with a block from his left gun and managed to maneuvered himself to shoot lance with his right gun, close to lance face, as lance had dodged it. but just as duke was about to take another shot at lance, lance stabbed the ground, projecting head of spears to erupt from the ground, in hopes of impaling us, though duke frowned at this and shot a glowing bullet that emitted a dense amount of mana to the ground below us, instantly destroying the spears below him, while I used the aurora drive, sensory enhancement to predict the directions of the spikes and instantly dodge them all.
"Damn it, sacred arm: missile!"
Duke shot a barrage of bullets that started to chase lance around like heat-seeking missiles, as upon impact. A very loud explosion erupted, though it had seemed that lance was able to use his spear to stop the attack, before he suddenly jumped up high in the sky, then pointing the bottom of his spear towards us.
"Sacred arm: fallout!"
lance roared out, as I knew what was coming next, I tried to tell duke to leave out of its vicinity, but instead duke told me to go and proceeded to glow in an ominous blue aura, covering both of his guns. I felt him and kept some distance away from the impact… but I still remained close, just in case I needed to intervene. As lance spear shot out at us at full speed, with the size constantly enlarging with every proximity it was from duke.
"Hmmm what a drag… sacred arm: infusion"
lance started while bring up his two guns at the bottom of the incoming staff with a gigantic magic circle appearing just in front of the two guns, and with a click at the trigger. Duke shot the two guns at the same time, with the normal bullets entering the magical circle and coming out the other side as a very large energy bullet projection that moved at the incoming spear with full force.
"Grand shot!"
Before we knew it, the two-attack collided, cancelling the effect of each attack. As the shockwave spread around the nearby trees, almost reaping them from their roots, though I managed to take covered while still observing the display of power from the two. 'Damn it, this is getting to far!'
I thought with a frown on my face, as the impact of the two attacks were making it harder for me to keep track of what's going on, with the sound of guns and the clank of weapons hitting each other… but then before I knew it, a chilly realization came into my head.
"Oh no… damn it." I cursed under my breath, cloaking myself with a dense layer of red-purplish mana and then zooming off instantaneously to towards them, I seemed to have passed right in-between them, gaining their attentions, as I began to see the looming shadow over us. The smoke and dust began to clear to reveal the yoma, ready to pound us all with a fist… but seeing this on time, I drew back my fist and glared at the beast with a frown.
"YOU GUYS SHOULD STOP FIGHTING AND LET'S TAKE DOWN THIS DAMN YOMA ALREADY, AURORA TECHNIQUE: WILL"
"GOD FIST, TENFOLD!" I roared out and clashed my fist with the yoma, the impact managed to push the yoma back, as I then landed on the ground… staring at the yoma, as it started to gain it's footing and then resulted to roar out in a very thunderous manner, shaking the ground beneath my feet. Though even still, I kept my footing and still glared at the gigantic beast.Duke and lance made their way to each of my sided, with lance at my left and duke at my right, ready for combat.
"let's just get this over with." Lance called out while re-coating his form in his dark mana armor once again, with his spear emitting a very dense amount of mana.
"Yeah, so that I can get back to kicking your ass." Duke comment in a stoic tone in his voice, with his form evolved in a very deep blue mana cloak that also coated both his guns.
"Alright then, a temporary truce… let's get this started." I said with a grin on my face, as the yoma brought down its eyes at us and charged at us.
--back at dante team's location—
Third person's P.O.V
"Well, that was fast." Mark said with a bored sigh, as he hung one of the other unconscious team members on a tree branch. "Hang in there buddy."
"Now that's over, let's get back on with our mission-." Trinity said, with the rest nodding in agreement, but just then… a sudden turmoil and release of a very dark mana presence, similar to that of before, filled the area. And the sky above them was starting to turn black and had purple lightening lighting the heavens, as the pressure the mana got even worst. The sudden shift of situation, started to make them worried as to what was going on… and most importantly, if dante was alright.
"This doesn't seem good… a gate is open." Rin said with a worried tone in her voice, with the sudden appearance of a gate way, serving as an indication of someone is getting corrupted and is about to transform. But just then, the screen projection appeared in front of them, to reveal the general with a very worried look on his face.
"ALL REPRESENTATIVES TO THE HQ, THE ASSESSMENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN EVENTS, AS THIS IS NOT A DRILL, THIS IS A CODE VOID… YOMAS ARE APPROACHING THE SITE, SO ESCAPE THE VICINITY IMMEDIATELY!." General Arthur announced, as the screen projection glitch away with rin, trinity, luca and mark sharing a similar look of panic, but then turned back at the other team unconscious.
"Damn it… a whole hoard of city destroying hamjis… all, about to appear here… right now." Luca commented with a frustrated smile on his face, but raising his head up to trinity. "What do we do now trin… you heard the general."
"And we can't leave these guys here." Mark said with a firm look on his face.
"Alright then, will retreat back to the facility and drop off these guys, then we will go back and look for dante alright." Trinity decided, as the rest responded with a nod. With each of them carrying one of the other team members while mark carried two on each of his shoulders "okay then, let's go now."
"Alright!" they all roared out and proceeded to follow her lead, with all of them heading back to the HQ