New ERA Saga

Chapter 05 – All Enemies Defeated

After eliminating the four cyborgs, Nouel sheathed both swords back in the sheaths that were behind her back, right inside her armor. He also looked around, using a hologram scanner to make sure all the cyborgs he was fighting were disabled, or indirectly it could be said to be dead.

The fight is certainly not over, the sounds of gunfire can still be heard clearly from a distance, whether its shots fired by the enemy or those fired by his team members.

Just finished doing a scan which indicated that there was no life from the enemies, suddenly there was a strong shake there along with a loud explosion sound.

“Tch.” Nouel then jumps towards the top floor, with the technology he has, he can jump more than four meters high, easily, Nouel can reach the top floor, then walks towards the hollow wall where he previously received an explosive attack.

Nouel immediately touched his communication device. “Report, what happened?”

“Captain, suddenly there was an explosion everywhere.” Veliant from across there replied.

“Looks like this building is about to be demolished.” Azrael gave a report, her voice panicked.

“What about the status of the rebels?” Nouel asked again, he walked quite casually, glancing around where the battle marks seemed to have a lot of damage and gunshot holes.

That's when there was another shock along with the sound of an explosion.

“Drax, what happened? Didn't I secure the trap?” asked Nouel turning to the man.

“Sorry, captain, this one is the bomb they threw.” Drax replied.

“Unlucky.”

“Me and Blaicer are working on this, we're outside the building.”

“Okay, you guys handle it.”

“Some of them retreated, the rest, they were like they weren't afraid to die, these troops... they kept advancing on us.” Veliant returned to report.

“Seriously, what creatures are they?” said Azreal asking a question, sounding very surprised.

Nouel then told them. “Those people are cyborgs, they are remotely controlled.”

“What?” asked the two men in unison.

Before anyone could wonder, Nouel immediately gave them an order. “Putting that aside, this building will likely be completely blown up, start evacuating your troops.”

“Copy that.” They answered in unison.

After giving orders to his subordinates. Nouel, who had arrived at the area where he first received an explosive attack, immediately found his weapon that had slipped from his grip.

“Here it seems.” After picking up the weapon again, Nouel immediately ran towards the source of the sound of the gunfire that was still going on.

Nouel ran so fast that in a relatively short time, he arrived at the location where I shot. It looked like Vera was being overwhelmed, she was being pushed by several enemies who kept shooting at her, the girl herself was taking cover behind a pillar that was quite large, though still, that part of the pillar was gradually eroded by the cyborgs' shots. “No wonder he didn't answer, apparently he was busy.”

Nouel activated aim when his advanced glasses operated, thereafter, without hesitation, he immediately entered the battlefield, shooting one by one the cyborgs who didn't notice their arrival.

Every shot Nouel fires causes the cyborg that is hit to collapse instantly, goes into a seizure as if being electrocuted, then stops moving. When three or four of the cyborgs fell, the other four that were previously focused on Vera immediately turned towards Nouel.

Instead of shooting at them, Nouel immediately put his gun to his back, then dashed over, he activated his shield just in time as the cyborgs fired successive shots at him.

“Thank you for coming, I thought I would die!” exclaimed Vera when she saw Nouel coming forward. She came out of hiding, then opened fire on the cyborgs to provide assistance from afar.

“You should use your cyborg abilities against them!” Nouel replied, when his shield was deactivated, he drew one of his swords, then immediately jumped looking at the iron beam on the floor towards one of the cyborgs, then used the sword to block another shot along with the iron beam that hit the cyborg.

Another cyborg jumped down from above in front of Nouel, once they were face to face, the cyborg fired continuous shots at him. Nouel himself dashed forward, slashing every single bullet that was fired at him.

Once within reach, he intended to cut the cyborg, but the cyborg man avoided it, turned around and then hit Nouel with his firearm. After hitting Nouel's head, the cyborg spun its weapon, then smashed it against Nouel's chest.

When the weapon was about to be released again, Nouel had already stabbed the cyborg's hand until it was red, then released a right kick to the cyborg man's chest, making him take a few steps back, then Nouel ran forward and released a slash that made the cyborg fall.

It didn't end there, Nouel turned his gaze then threw his sword at one of the cyborgs who were still above, the sword directly stabbed the cyborg's chest, making it fall down. Nouel himself activated his shield again when several bullets shot towards him.

Nouel walked towards one last cyborg while pulling his gun, the cyborg also moved forward while continuing to fire. The two of them kept walking while firing shots at each other, the cyborg's bullets kept hitting the armor Nouel was wearing, as well as the regular bullets that Nouel's weapon released, the bullets kept hitting the cyborg's chest, which turned out to be protected by quite thick metal.

The two of them continued to shorten the distance until, at about six feet away, they stopped shooting as each ran out of bullets.

“Tch, run out of bullets.” Nouel immediately put his weapon back on his back.

The cyborg threw away his weapon, then clenched it, he jumped towards Nouel about to throw a punch, but with a very fast movement, Nouel drew one remaining sword and then released a slash that split the cyborg's body in two.

“I'm sorry, I'm tired of fist fights.” Nouel mutters while twirling his sword around. Vera approached while carrying a sword that Nouel had previously thrown.

“Huh, all done. I didn't expect them to be too strong.” He muttered as he twirled the weapon around before sheathing it back into his armor.

 

“Captain, are you okay?” asked Vera as she threw the sword she brought back to its owner.

“Good enough,” Nouel replied as he caught the hilt of the sword. Then he sheathed his two swords.

“Why are you even fighting head-on? I thought you were going to shoot them all with that one.”

Nouel also showed his gun, the shooter. “It's just a prototype, a little risky for me if I overuse it.”

“Really?”

“That's it, that's why I did it manually.” His gaze then shifted to all the fallen cyborgs. “Besides, I have no preparation to fight the cyborgs.”

“What did you get?”

“Nothing, it seems the masterminds of all this have fled, I found a computer that had all its data wiped. There is no boss of these rebels, we got nothing, all traces, and records have been erased, whatever they are doing here, seems critical, bottom line is we got nothing.” Vera immediately provided the details that she got while Nouel was fighting alone.

“It's a little disappointing.”

“Speaking of which, how come we never heard of any other cyborg troop aside from us? Do they come from other groups who are also developing technology like us?” asked Vera, feeling curious because unexpectedly they were actually fighting the rebels in cyborg form.

“I don't know, what's clear is something new.”

At that moment, there was a shock which now made the ceiling start to fall.

“I think it's time for us to leave here,” said Nouel as he put his weapon back down.

“Agree.”

The two immediately ran out of the area together. Just five seconds apart from their escape, an explosion occurred. Because Nouel and Vera have faster running speeds than normal humans, they can run away of being chased by such powerful fire explosions.

They ran along the passage as fast as they could, in front of them was a huge window with closed glass, the window was still quite far for an ordinary human.

Nouel and Vera were sent flying by the massive explosion behind them. Both of them were thrown several meters away through a closed glass window, their bodies were thrown outside the building which turned out to be on the second floor, both of them landed on the street with a bang. Even so, they did not suffer significant injuries.

There was an explosion that immediately threw all parts of the building away, Nouel immediately created a shield as protection for himself and Vera, he was just in time when the rubble of the building was thrown towards them.

The building was blown to pieces, dust, and debris flying everywhere.

Nouel saw many victims lying helpless around the area of the explosion, including some members of their troops.

“Unlucky.”

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