Ashura wakes up with his eyelids wavering up and down and thought about what he had dreamt about. 'An echo of the past huh.' After getting up from his bed, he opened the curtains revealing a beautiful sunrise in the distance shining across the barren horizon.
"You awake Captain?" A loud voice came from the other side of the door
"What it is?" Ashura replied with a loud voice as well
"The commander is requesting your presence for an urgent job request."
"Tell her I'll be there in a few minutes."
Brushing his black hair that covered his eyes aside, he then picked up and put on his long black jacket, ankle height black leather boots, and walked out the door to the hallway revealing a triangular logo with the letters MRC. Ashura walked down the brick stairs and into a room that resembled a business office with a polished wooden table, leather patted chair, and a wooden frame window similar to the one in Ashura's room. A brown haired women was sitting in the brown leather chair, while my close companion Hayate was standing right beside me.
"Reporting for duty commander."
"No need to be so formal with just us three here. Anyways I'll get straight to the chase, a client sent us a request asking to get rid a scrapper group in the area. We have proof of them harassing local players so there shouldn't be any problems of killing them but there are a decent number of them so make sure they don't find out who you are."
"How many of them are there exactly?" Hayate asked
"About fifteen including their leader, and our scouts have reported that they use an underground hideout as their HQ as well as-"
"Why not just send a group of five to clear it out then?" Ashura asked
"The client is a close friend of mine and he is paying top dollar so he can pay them back for his friends that got taken advantage of. Also their HQ is within city zones so they will just resurrect at the cathedral after they're killed, so you two will be the most effective in destroying their morale. And besides, you guys are going to get first picks when we split the spoils" she said with a wink
"What are their levels and weapons?" Ashura asked with a heavy sigh
"Forty to forty-five but you two who can handle level fifty beasts shouldn't have too much trouble against them."
"Whatever, let's do this" Ashura said as he walked out of the room
"Make sure you don't show them your face." The female vice-commander yelled after him
"I got it." Ashura responded
"We'll be fine, I'll watch over him." Said Hayate as he left the room as well
Ashura walked back to his private room and began to pack his inventory. As he was packing he picked up a framed picture showing a teenage boy in all black clothing with a young brunette girl in a white and blue dress with blue ribbons and a black haired women in a red blazer and brown skirt.
The golden sunset gave off a feeling of the end of a day's of hard work and radiated off warm orange and yellow rays onto the land. The air was stagnant while the sounds could not be heard within eyesight. Two men were clad in metal plated armor similar to medieval knights were standing in front to the entrance of some sort building that was almost destroyed beyond recognition. However one could believe it was a museum based its historic appearance from its marble walls, tall rugged pillars, and its ancient architectural construction style. Behind them as well as the entrance was various fallen walls of buildings that used to be intact. Another man was perched in front of a hole on an old abandoned building facing the entrance, and was carefully keeping watch of the area. The mysterious entrance guarded by the three people was surrounded by dozens of old fallen buildings, destroyed intra-structure, and vehicles that was damaged beyond identification. The whole area resembled as if a ten tsunamis had assaulted this wasteland. Then one hundred meters from the two steel plated knights, two silhouettes were kneeling upon a tree branch five meters off the ground. One of silhouettes held up a long rifle while the other stood up with a large broad head spear.
"You ready?" Said the sitting silhouette
"Let's do this." Said the shadow that had stood up
As the two steel plated knights were still keeping watch, suddenly a person clad with two capes and two long grey side capes that was attached to his waist had fallen straight from the sky similar to as if he had dove from the clouds. As he made contact with the ground, he caused the ground to tremor and crack upon his landing. While unknown to the two armored guards, a loud bang could be heard from a distance. "What!?" Shaken by his unorthodox entrance, the two knights hesitated for half a second before both of them raised their weapons to attack this mysterious warrior. With closer examination the jet black suit that he wore had blue marine trimmings that resembled a human blood vessels. "I don't care who you are but you're dead!" said one of the guards. The black warrior with his head half covered by a dark grey helmet, his eyes being covered with a dark purple visor said nothing in return. The guard who shouted his words then lifted his two handed steel axe while the other guard followed after the axe guard's charge, charging towards the black warrior with a sword and shield in his hands. Despite wielding such a large broad head spear, the black spear warrior nimbly evaded the chop made by the axe and pushed back the advancing sword wielding knight. By using 'Spiraling Vengeance' the attacks done two knights were absorbed and knocked back despite wearing such heavily plated armor. The guards that were inside the armor staggered by the counter-blow. "Uhhhh.." An electrically charged bullet flew in from the horizon and struck the knight wielding the axe, thus he became stunned from the electricity and collapsed to the ground. While the axe knight was stunned, the sword knight continued to fight the mysterious black warrior however despite the knight's attempts to attack, defend, or use skills his techniques was countered every single time "Dammit." As they had kept on fighting, the sword knight went on to use 'berserker's slash' while the black warrior used 'wild strike' to counter. Sparks were lighting up the air as these powerful skills came into contact. As their weapons had entered a deadlock, the black warrior saw an opportunity at this time, so he pushed and swung his opponent's sword in vertical circle similar to a counter-clockwise rotation, lifted his blade out of his hands, and had launched it into the air. Baffled with wide eyes, the knight looked towards the sky as his while the black warrior saw an opportunity. "AAAAAaaaargh" Screamed the knight. The huge spear had skewered his body, the damage he had suffered reduced his Hp gauge above his head from full down to two thirds remaining. The black warrior then slowly lifted the sword knight off the ground with his spear still impaled as the axe knight had recovered from being stunned. Then two more bullets flew in from the distance was aimed towards the black warrior, just before they reached their target the tips of the bullet split apart revealing needles as the tip. The two needle tipped bullets struck the black warrior on the neck and the thigh. "Uoooohhh" he lifted the sword knight at an amazing rate compared to moments before. *Slam* the charging axe knight was smacked by the body of the sword knight, causing them to crash to the entrance of their hideout. The sound of bones cracking could be heard from a distance, the two knights gasped but could not vocalized any words out of their mouths. The sword knight now had about a third of his Hp remaining while the other axe knight had about two thirds remaining. The black warrior then spun and held his huge broad headed spear in the air with his right hand and whispered "X-ray Penetrate". The huge spear began glowed with a dark purple light and the words 'Final Advent' could be heard by the black warrior from his Arkkle. "Ughh….","Ahhhh…" The two knights returned to their senses and saw a purple beam was brightly lit in front of their eyes that was aimed upon their necks. "Execute" was heard and the black warrior threw his spear like a ray of light, severed the two knight's necks, and struck a deep hole on the two inched thick steel door to the hideout guarded by those two. The warrior in black retrieved hi. A man with a long rifle then walked up to the black warrior.
"Did you take out their over watch?" Said the black warrior.
"Well I wouldn't be here if I didn't." Responded the marksman.
*Sigh*"I hate it when you bring sarcasm to the field. Anyways let's hurry up with this mission." With that said the black warrior separated his spear shaft from his spear head revealing a one handed sword similar to a sword that was drawn out of its sheath. While the spear head split as two pieces while it was still attached to the center that resembled a sword sheath and contracted together like a shield. "Synergize" At that instant the garments wore by the black warrior began to warp, the capes began to join together revealing a sleeve-less black trench coat. His jet black jump suit morphed into obsidian shoulder guards, dark grey arm and shin guards with black trimmings, a grey chest plate with overlaying pieces over the abdomen, and black leather boots. The dark grey helmet retracted the purple visor upwards and changed shape into an open top leather helm with three horns that was attached to the strap wrapped around the forehead. The marksman took aim, *Bang* and *Bang* the locks were shot open and the door being angled inwards fell inwards. Inside the remote hideout was illuminated with dim yellow lights. If one did not know better it could have been easily mistaken as a jail or dungeon. "Who's there?" Came a voice from a deeper section of the hideout. "Two Hostiles, one spear and one archer. Get your knife ready, 'Shadow Sanctuary!'." A cloak of transparency covered Ashura and Hayate just as, a man with a steel three pronged lance ran from what seemed to be an underground passage up into the room followed by a woman equipped a wooden bow. "Show yourselves!" the man shouted. *Hack* *Gack* 'Critical Hit'. "Very well." The woman was slit in the throat and slashed in the back by Hayate while the spear was stabbed in the spine twice by Ashura without any signs of hesitation. *Flop* The bodies land on a large pool of blood.
"You and your sarcastic comments." said Hayate as he gave a wry smile
"Well he got he wanted, and from what I surveyed earlier those five should have been all there were. The objective should be downstairs from where those two came from."
As they wandered through underground floor of the hideout, a girl was seen with her arms being hung up by chains. Her scarlet red hair that flowed down her back was a mess, while the lavender blazer with purple trimmings and the black thigh socks that she had on were split and torn. In addition her face and body seemed to be battered with bruises.