Chapter 32
I've made some revisions on chapter 20 (story number 21 on the list). Enjoy!
At the same time with the previous chapter, inside the Thanatos Tower....
Beelzephir The chaos was seen sitting in front of Albert Gahn, they were seen playing chess (again). This time, they played in the guest room, where darkness covered the room. "So, Gahn. Is it true that Lethe Guild has been defeated by Sagaramore and Palamedes?" The white clothed high wizard started the conversation.
"Apparently, yes my lord" A short answer from the black clothed man. Beelzephir sarcastically replied, "So, it's official then. Valdomir Kingdom has lost its touch". Albert Gahn didn't give any respond. He realized any other respond would probably angered the high wizard.
After some moment of silence, Beelzephir calmly gave his command, "Call the rest of the guilds here. And tell Eremes to gather the Quarter Kings. I need to tell them something. Something very important". Albert Gahn nodded as he quietly vanished in darkness, leaving the white high wizard alone in the dark room.
At the same time, somewhere not far from Einbroch....
Emilio Barragan was seen standing in one of the hills near an abandoned city in a warm night. The city was once an industrial town, mainly used a steel mill and mining area of coal. Since Valdomir Kingdom attacked Juno a year ago, the city has been left abandoned and ruined. The military of Einbroch received some information regarding the sight of several Valdomir soldiers inside the city. Ropera Squad has been sent there to exterminate their enemies.
"Captain Barragan!" Emilio turned his attention to a tall blond girl who was running towards him. "I've found the latest info about the Valdomirs hiding in the steel mill. It's Vesper and his Juperos" Emilio received some papers from the girl and carefully read it.
"Thank you, Martina. Now, I'll commence our move. Gather the soldiers" Emilio told the girl named Martina, who quickly commence to the rest of the squad to gather and listen to their captain's plan.
Once the soldiers have gathered, Emilio start explaining his plan, "OK, guys. Here's the plan. I'll take 3 of you with me and the rest will surround the city. My group will force the idiots inside Juperos to come out from their nest, and all you have to do is light them up. As for Vesper, if we still have some time left to take care of him, his mine. Do I make myself clear!?".
"Yes, sir!" His squad answered.
"OK. Martina and Clyde, you'll come with me" Emilio pointed the blond girl and the other one, a brown haired man, around Emilio's height, nodded and joined the ordered team. While the rest of the squad were preparing themselves to surround the city, the guy named Clyde asked his captain, "Captain Barragan? You said a you would choose 3, right? Who's the third?".
"Don't worry, Clyde. I already assigned 'The Silver Sniper' on her usual position, that makes three of you. OK, let's get moving, guys!" The captain ordered loudly.
The soldiers marched to the appointed position as the Emilio and his two gunslingers marched inside the city, heading towards the steel mill. "So, Captain Barragan. How's vice-captain Sinclair doing down there? Is he still alive?" Martina asked the lanky captain. "Well, yeah. He helped Sagramore a lot. Yesterday he asked me whether I could send him some reinforcements down there. I'm currently thinking who will I assign for his request" Emilio answered while rubbing the back of his head.
"Well, I'm available 24/7, captain" Clyde offered himself for the request.
"Hm, 'The Throttle' offered himself for a mission, huh? You really enjoyed working with him, Clyde?" Emilio asked while looking back at his soldier a bit, "Well, of course! The main reason I joined Ropera squad was because I wanted to see and work with The Angel of Darkness by myself. I wouldn't waste any chance if I could work fight alongside him".
"Well, Elraven has a big fan up here. If I'm not mistaken, your sister is also a big fan of Elraven, correct?" Clyde nodded answering his captain question as the three approached the large steel mill. "Captain, I see something approaching us!" Martina shouted as she saw 5 dozens of Dimik approaching them. Martina quickly readied her shotgun, Gate Keeper. Emilio pulled out his soldier grenade launcher when Clyde picked his double revolver, soldier handguns.
"Clyde, go!" Clyde ran towards the Dimik as Emilio ordered. The dimiks start shooting their bullets as Clyde jumped and quickly appeared between them. He bombarded the dimiks with the 'Desperado'. Several dimiks exploded after receiving the quick attack, but before the dimiks can counter the attack Martina already attacked them with the 'Spread Attack'. As more explosions occurred, Emilio towards the dimiks and aimed his grenade launcher right in front of the face of one of the little robots, and destroyed him with a single shot. Emilio furthered his attack as he shot the 'Scatter Mines', destroying a dozen dimiks.
The dimiks were shocked to find out they already lost half of them in less than a minute and tried to ran for their lives. But Clyde was quick to anticipate this and again appeared between them, shocked them with another desperado. As Clyde quickly pulled himself from the shocked dimiks, Emilio and Martina threw them two grenades, destroying the remaining dimiks as the grenade exploded.
"Well done, as always!" Emilio said as he clapped his hands seeing the action of his squad. His two underlings packed their weapons and continued further inside the steel mill. Inside the steel mill, they found a deep hole in the center the mill after several minutes of walking.
"If our information is right, this hole will lead us to Juperos, the headquarters of the robots. Here's what we gonna do. First I need tell you that they must have some kind of aircraft engines if they could take this gigantic robots factory to the sky without being noticed. Our men are currently waiting outside, so we'll only need to find the engine they use to float and fly the Juperos to the city, or at least above the city so our men could light it up. Got it?" Emilio told his gunslingers as they prepared to climb down the hole.
"Yes, sir!" And the three climbed down the hole, finally reaching the top of Juperos after fifteen minutes climbing down. "OK, our priority is to fly this thing, not to defeat Vesper or his guys, now Martina and Clyde you go to the left side of Juperos, I'll go to the right side" Emilio commanded his gunslingers but Martina seemed disagree, "Captain, wait! You're going alone? What if they discovered you?!".
"Easy, the silver sniper is with me the entire time. You know, this is her style. Moving unnoticed" Emilio ensured his safety as the female gunslinger nodded. And they separated to the pointed directions. "Not defeating Vesper, my feet! I'll take care of him by myself!! That'll make my name bigger!!" Emilio grinned as he made his move inside the Juperos slowly. He take a look to at least 10 dozens of robots guarding Juperos gathering inside.
"Wow, a lot of guards. But, Vesper is the only one I want. I wonder where is he?" As the gunslinger talked to himself when he noticed a large tower like machine in the middle of Juperos. "Hm, leader usually hides inside the deepest level of the dungeon, that must mean Vesper is in the core. If my intuition is right, I'll have to go to the core!!". The ambitious gunslinger directly tried to find a way to the core.
On the other side of Juperos, Martina and Clyde were doing their best to find the aircraft engine, although they didn't really progressed that much by sneaking secretly in the corridor. "We will never find the aircraft engine this way! Do you have some suggestion, Martina?" Clyde tried to find an advice but he didn't hear any answer.
He turned his face to see the female gunslinger was wondering on her own mind. "Martina, are you worrying our captain?" Martina nodded as Clyde sighed, "Martina, he is Emilio Barragan, The Sphere of Death, I don't think just a dozens heap of robots can kill him. It takes more than Juperos to bring him down. There's no need to worry. Didn't he say my sister comes with him?".
"Um, yeah. I kinda worry about him. But, I don't underestimate him or such..." The blond replied.
"Well, I think he just want to defeat Vesper all by himself. Isn't that why he sent us to the different side of Juperos, cause he doesn't want us to interfere? He's always like that. Maybe he uses this opportunity against Vesper as a bet with General Barragan or to make name for himself like he always does, right?" Clyde asked with a smile to the worrying gunslinger.
"You're right. I'm sorry I worry too much" The female gunslinger gave a smile for the cheer.
Clyde chuckled and talk again as they continue their sneaking, "Do you remember when vice-captain Sinclair is still around? They used to swipe the entire battalion all by themselves!! That was amazing, right? I though at some point the two aren't human!".
"True! Especially our vice-captain, he's indestructible! I agree with you, maybe he's not fully a human at all. But, you and your sister adore him so much, right?" Martina turned her head to see his comrade's reaction.
"Yes, he's everything I want to be. He's strong and he's a cool adult. But my sister adores him more than me. If there's any chance she can marry our vice-captain, she would. Too bad, my sister usually faints just by standing near him", Clyde answered with a burning face.
"Hahahaha! Did you remember during the new year's party? She fainted when our vice-captain offered her a dance!!" Martina continued the conversation.
But he still replied nonetheless, "Well, yeah. And my sister fainted too when Captain put her on the same team with vice-captain during a mission at Juno, thanks god she didn't get herself killed". After half an hour of sneaking quietly, the two finally arrived in some kind of an engine room. The room was huge but the two gunslingers didn't notice anyone was guarding the room.
"Weird, this room is like an engine room but nobody's inside" Clyde commented the awkward situation as his female comrade nodded. The two carefully sneaked inside the room as they suddenly felt some presence around them. Martina who possess stronger senses, shouted as she pushed Clyde, "Clyde, watch out!".
Thanks to the push, both of them were saved by something fell from the above. It was a gigantic robot, around 10 feet tall. He looks like Apocalypse but much bigger. Three ball like devices were floating around him. "What is that? An apocalypse? But, he's much bigger than normal apocalypse!!" Clyde said as he and Martina rose from the floor.
"And he's not alone" Martina warned Clyde as 5 dozens normal apocalypse quickly entered the room. "So, it's a trap from the very beginning, huh?" Clyde cynically asked as he and Martina prepared their respective weapons.
"That's right. Our surveillance engine took reaction when you and your captain arrived at the top of Juperos. We waited for a situation when you finally showed yourself inside Juperos. It would be easier to kill you that way rather than playing hide and seek", The gigantic apocalypse explained.
"So? It's not like we're not ready for battle!!" Clyde dashed towards the mass of apocalypses as they prepared to give him one hell of a fight.
Meanwhile, in the other side of Juperos....
Vesper was seen standing with his dozens of apocalypses as Emilio who was surrounded by them , clapping his hands. "Wonderful, wonderful! What a trap to let us in like that. Thank you for the explanation, Vesper. Now, I can kill you without wasting too much time!" He said as he finished clapping his hands.
"Don't act too confident, gunslinger!! There's no way you'll live fighting this much of an opponents!!" Vesper bashed Emilio for acting too sure.
"Oh, there's always a way, Vesper. There's always a way" With that being said, Emilio Barragan pulled out his Destroyer.
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Coming up, the battle of Juperos!! Hope u enjoy!!