Escape to Riverdale?
"Open Instant Skill Shop."
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[INSTANT SKILL SHOP]
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× DASH — INCREASE BASE SPEED BY 20% [200 GC]
× SHIELD — BLOCK ANY TIER 0 ATTACK FOR 1 SEC [500 GC]
× COMBO — INCREASE ATTACK SPEED & PENETRATION BY 20% [1000 GC]
× LEVITATE — FLY IN THE SKY AS YOU WILL FOR 3 SEC [1000 GC]
× STEALTH — BECOME INVISIBLE & SILENT FOR 5 SEC [2500 GC]
× BERSERKER — ALL ATTRIBUTES INCREASE BY 90% [150000 GC]
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[TO USE SKILL, SAY BUT WITH THE NAME OF THE SKILL. TAKE NOTE TO HAVE POINTS FOR CERTAIN SKILL OR YOU MIGHT DIE DISAPPOINTED]
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Syd gave the Screen before him a thorough scan. Everything was simple and could be easily understood. Every skill that was on the Screen was like a boost to one's physical prowess. Giving it a thorough briefing, Syd nodded while closing the Screen, diverting his attention back to Lysa.
"So you were using [Levitate] earlier?" He asked. Lysa answered by smiling.
"The Instant Skills are quite useful. If you know how to utilize it well in a battle, you can gain the upper hand in the battle against an Hostile ten levels above you."
"That's that. What are we doing now, keep grinding?" Syd questioned Lysa while taking a quick glance at his surroundings. "There aren't even any Hostiles to kill..."
"Don't worry about that... I've got us covered." Lysa's expression had a 180-degree change — the smirk of the proud.
At that moment, a black grenade-like item. "Let me introduce you to Screamie Aggie." Syd eyelids twitched a bit at the uncanny announcement of Lysa. "Screamie Aggie is a 200-meters aggro puller. She releases high-pitched sounds that acts as banes to Hostiles, that is, places Hostiles in Negative States for 10 seconds."
"Screamie Aggie is also a growth-type item and has a cool down period of five minutes. Cool, ain't she?" Lysa explained with a smug smile... Syd facepalmed.
"Alright, let's get this over with."
With the draw of the pin, the cap above 'Screamie Aggie' popped off. Unceremoniously, a very loud, high-pitched sound, louder than Syd's expectation, filled the air. Lysa stood undeterred by sound, with her expression classifying it as a slight disturbance.
Fifteen seconds after, buildings began to shake from their foundations, the ground began to tremble heavily. The sounds of footsteps aggressively banging the ground could be heard from a distance. Syd took a step back and glanced at Lysa with a perplexed gaze.
"Was your Aggie meant to make Hostiles this aggressive?" Syd could not decipher the emotion which Lysa depicted. From shock to restlessness, panic, and back-to-back roller coasters of emotions.
"Shit! My Map is picking more than fifty Hostile signals. How the fuck are we going to fight them!!" Lysa's dam of thought broke as she saw more than fifty Hostiles heading towards them.
Syd, swapping his Karvok SMG for his brand new Lord-30 AR and reloaded its magazine with new rounds. He steeled himself at heart ready to fight the incoming hoard of Rogue Mechanoids.
Suddenly, with a bell ringing in his head, "Toss every grenade you have at them." Syd yelled at Lysa who stood frozen like a statue.
Summoning the grenades in [INVENTORY], Syd quickly unpinned them and sent them flying one after another in the direction of the Rogue Mechanoids.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Mechanoids flew around like Ragdolls with either their limbs being dismembered or their torso torn from their lower body. Notification alerts kept buzzing in Syd's ears as the explosion alone had given him more than ten-thousand XPs and a thousand-plus GC. Lysa herself wasn't doing bad as she kept hurling grenades and flashbangs at the Rogue Mechanoids. The more than fifty-plus number of Mechanoids dwindled down to just fifteen.
Lysa, who had just heaved heavily as a sign of relief, almost had a heart attack as the numbers of red dots were ever increasing.
"Well... Your Screamie Aggie has outdone herself." Syd said in a sarcastic tone that unfortunately made Lysa's expression darken.
"FUUUCK!!!" Syd was caught off guard by Lysa's sudden outburst. "How do we get out of here? Damnit! Fuck Screamie AGGIE!"
Syd would have had the luxury to make fun of Lysa, but with their current situation, time was of great value.
Syd's brain was overworking like a clock, thinking of a way to escape their current predicament. Just then...
"Calling Zephyr Bolt XR5." The Panel Screen appeared before Syd's eyes. It was showing the location of the bike that was currently speeding towards his location.
VROOOM!
The loud sound of the bike echoed throughout the vicinity as it appeared before Syd twelve seconds after contacting. He hurriedly placed the Main Helmet above his head and hopped on the bike. Lysa, frozen like a mannequin, gawked at Syd's XR5 in amazement. Syd facepalmed the helmet.
"Are you done staring at me and getting on the bike or you're willing to become a robot's lunch?"
"Oh!" Snapping out of her stupor, Lysa got on the bike and wrapped her hands around Syd's abdomen.
"We are heading towards Riverdale. North, South and East are all blocked by the Mechanoids, so hold on tight!"
With the starting of the Zephyr, Syd stepped on the gear pedal, initiating the ride. Lysa hugged her body against Syd's rear as the bike was gaining momentum. More or less, she didn't forget the problem at hand. She tilted her head sideways to take a look at the Rogue Mechanoids, absurdly, the Mechanoids seemed to have gained speed unlike their former self. They were sprinting like athletes who were on steroids. A thousand-meter race would only take them three seconds at least. Well, Syd was doing a great job by maintaining the gap or slightly increasing it as he changed gears.
Vrooooom!
The Zephyr Bolt XR5 crossed the exit of Lupus Garage and sped onwards at the dirt road.
"Zzzzzz!" A buzzing sound caught the attention of Lysa. Unlike the Rogue Mechanoids who were still hundreds of meters behind, the sound was clearly nearer to them. With her head tracing the origin of the sounds, her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"They can fuckin' fly?!" Above them was a Mechanoid with metallic wings propelled by boosters to aid faster flight travels. The Mechanoid had a rifle at hand and... There was not only one but seven of them!
"SYD! SPEED UP!" Syd diverted half his attention from the road and tilted his head slightly to hear what Lysa said.
"What!?"
"I SAID FUCKIN' SPEED UP! THERE IS A MECHANOID FLYING TOWARDS US!" Lysa yelled again, further explaining the situation to Syd whose face held a shocked emotion, but Lysa couldn't see it due to the fact that he wasn't facing her and there was a helmet covering his face. She took his lack of speech, motion or reaction as that of an apathetic one. Yet, earlier than Lysa's almost outburst, the Zephyr Bolt XR5 gained more speed as Syd switched the gear pedal to four with the XR5 speed indicator showing that its speed had surpassed 400KM/H.
"WOA-!!" Lysa nearly lost her balance causing her to clutch Syd tighter.
On a normal ride, Syd would have been grinning from ear-to-ear as a lady hugged him tight with all her bust pressing against his back, except the truth was that he couldn't have the frill to enjoy such action at the moment.
Ta! Ta! Ta! Ta! Ta! Ta!
Bullets rained down upon them as the Flying Mechanoids sent a burst of bullets at them. The Zephyr Bolt XR5 speed sold them the chance to painstakingly evade the volley sent towards them. Syd's face was covered in sweat as he was barely dodging the bullets by swerving from left to right.
[MAIN HELMET — SEVEN WINGED MECHANOIDS LOCKED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTACK, SAY SHOOT BLADES, TO CALL THEM BACK, SAY RETRACT]
"SHOOT BLADES!" Syd said in a panicked tone. One thing for sure he knew that was going to happen if the bullets touched his bike was that, it would go — KABOOOM!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
One of the compartment by the side of the bike opened and a row of neatly arranged knives appeared. As per the order given by Syd, seven blades shot out of the compartment. Controlled by the helmet, seven knives attacked the seven Winged Mechanoids. Caught unawares, the knives pierced in the core of five Winged Mechanoids whilst the remaining two had one of their metal wings sundered.
[PLAYER SYD SNOWFALL HAS SUCCESSFULLY KILLED FIVE TIER 0 LEVEL 35 WINGED MECHANOIDS]
[+10000 XP | +5000 GC | +475 AP]
[ACQUIRED — 3X LV. 35 SMITER-X ASSAULT RIFLE, 2X LV. 35 POLAR-0 SNIPER RIFLE, 5X LV. 35 WINGED MECHANOID CORES, 17X AR ROUNDS, 22X SNIPER ROUNDS, 14X LV. 35 EXPLOSIVE THROWING BLADES, 1X RARE-LEVEL DISRUPTOR, 1X INSTANT TRANSPORT UPGRADE, 1X RARE-LEVEL METALLIC WINGS]
[REWARD FOR KILLING HOSTILES TEN LEVEL HIGHER — 1000*5 = +5000 XP , +1000 GC]
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