Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 16, H.O.T.D 2

The scenery outside City Hall occupied by the Mayor of Tokonosu City and his loyal staff... had transformed into a scene straight out of hell. Not a biblical landscape of the fires of hell, but a winter hell world where life was not allowed to grow, but stand still for all eternity. The grounds and steps leading up to the building were covered in a layer of ice making it hard for soldiers to move around and would continue to slip. Cars used by government employees trying to escape had large boulders of ice smashing the hoods of the cars and killing those within. There were also human beings encased in solid ice still alive and slowly suffocating to death. No where else was the surreal scene taking place in the city. It was just the outside of the City Hall, and at the center of it all was a lone youth in his late teens wearing a wrinkled blue jacket grasping a magic staff.

Jin: "Boring. Like I predicted the defenses and military of the Mayor's faction shot down to hell and the few experts he had left are guarding him inside City Hall. Perhaps just killing the weakened Mayor as a example would have been enough to unify the city under one banner? Whatever. What's done is done and I'm bored out here. Rei and Sachi who went inside get to have all the fun. I'm trash, an existence not worthy of taking a single breath as a member of such amazing team and fighting alongside such cool main characters, but this treatment is too unfair! There's nothing that much fun about bully the-"

- *CONTINUOUS GUNFIRE*!!!

Five soldiers who stayed hidden snuck up behind Jin. They had to walk carefully as to not slip on the ice on the ground, but that just made them extra cautious. Once they found the ideal timing they raised their assault rifles, took aim, and showered him with bullets. Jin's body should have been riddled with holes and turned into a bloody mess, yet not one bullet reached him. Jin knew someone was trying to sneak up behind him from Hikari's scans and only pretended to be unaware of the approaching threat. He was just playing around with them. He activated Mana Shield a split second before the attack arrived and the blue orb shaped translucent barrier covered him and stopped the rain of bullets.

Jin: "Frostbolt!"

Jin's eyes showed no excitement, yet a smirk appeared on his face as he twirled his magic staff, The Arrogant Water Dragon King, pointing the end with the crystal towards the five soldiers still in shock. From the crystal a blue ray shot out and enveloping the soldiers, and in the next moment they were encased in a solid rock of ice still alive, and like the others were slowly suffocating to death.

Jin: "And you don't get points for this. Probably because God set us on the side of humans in this mission."

Soldier: "Die!"

A soldier in hiding ran out from his cover behind a destroyed car and charged towards Jin and in the man's hands was a rocket launcher. Jin had previously killed a man who had brought out this weapon with Frostbolt, yet the weapon wasn't frozen in place but fell on the ground where this soldier picked it up. The lone soldier felt he was the only one still alive outside City Hall and not expecting reinforcements he chose to act alone. He aimed the rocket launcher, pushed the trigger and the rocket flew out with the speed of a bullet, and seeing all this Jin was mildly impressed as he entered Unlocked Mode. Not even his Mana Shield was strong enough to completely withstand a rocket just yet, so he avoided it all together. Ice gathered and encased his feet just before the rocket reached him and with speed impossible for him he shot out of the way. The rocket missed leaving the soldier stunned in place which turned into a fatal mistake. As if leading a river of ice as he shot across with floor with impressive speed, Jin traversed behind the soldier. Jin didn't bother with turning the guard into an ice sculpture and took out from a holster the Mana Gun firing twice, one drilling a hole into the guard's back protected by Type 2 Mutant Beast armor, and the second then his whole head was blown off.

Jin: "Ice Stream, a technique to forge a path of ice below ones feet to achieve high speed travel. The description even says it can be used across oceans and the very sky in a similar manner to the guy from that one live action movie, but seeing as I haven't gotten a notification... I haven't reached Skill Mastery just yet. What a-"

Hikari SL: (Jin! Someone is starting up a helicopter on the roof of City Hall!)

Jin SL: (Oh, is it the Mayor trying to escape!? Hahaha! Lucky! At last a chance for this pathetic existence to show off his worth by finishing off the-)

Hikari SL: (Sorry, but no. The man fitting the description of the Mayor I was giving is cowering inside his personal office ever since word of an attack reached him. He had his guards fill the hallways to stop Rei and Sachi, but they've made it impossible for him to escape. It's probably just someone trying to escape, but I'm warning you to be careful since the helicopter has a high powered rotary cannon attached. Even my Defensive Shield would shatter under continuous fire after 10 seconds.)

And as she said this the helicopter could be heard above City Hall and was now trying to fly away. It was getting further and further away by the second.

Jin: "A helicopter has such high combat potential. It could have been of much use to us, but you fly away with it? Unacceptable. Ice Missile!

Jin pointed his magic staff with its blue crystal top changing in color into a deep dark red. The Arrogant Water Dragon King was now his Supporter increasing its effectiveness by many folds. Then charged with the Mana Jin acquired from his B tier enhancements Warlock Mutation and Advance Rank Magic Power, multiple lights shot of the tip of the magic staff and flew towards the escaping helicopter already three miles away. This was all within the range of Hikari's scans, so it was more than possible to target something so far away with the coordination of Psyche Force Scan and Soul Link. The lights smashed against the helicopter encased the entirely of it in ice and it fell to the ground below.

- SKILL MASTERY REWARD!

WITHIN 70% ACCURACY YOU HAVE EXECUTED THE FOLLOWING SKILL - "ICE MISSILE"! ONCE YOU RETURN TO THE TERMINAL LOBBY YOU CAN EXCHANGE FOR THE COMPLETE "ICE MISSILE" SKILL FOR 1/10 OF ITS POINT VALUE AND D RANK REWARD!

Jin: "Oh! I finally hit skill mastery for Ice Missile at last! I've collected quite a few skill masteries as of now, so once I get back I should just exchange for them all to get it over with... or maybe I shouldn't bother. I think I've more than 100% mastered a few of... Wait. I didn't hear an explosion when the helicopter fell... Hikari! Are the others okay in City Hall?"

Hikari SL: (Yes. They are closing in on the Mayor now. I doubt they'll have any-)

Jin SL: (Hahahahaha! Good! Then show me where the helicopter fell. Everyone has been nice to us so far and we've even been given those two modified Humvees, but I doubt they'll lend us a valuable helicopter which can fly and travel fast, so this is a chance! Show me where it is and I'll sink it into the ground with Quagmire to hide it and later have Shuai resurface it with Gnome. From there we'll have Shin take it into his Dimensional Belt and when we get back to the Terminal Lobby we can fix it up, and just like that we will have our own helicopter!)

Hikari SL: "(Jin, on this team, only you would have the idea to steal our friends valuable resources during a political purge. Whatever, it's a good idea so I'll show you the way.)

And like so Jin set off with his mind full of new possibilities for Team Japan.

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Inside City Hall was a milder, but similar a scene of hell. The electrical system was sabotaged and the entire building was shrouded in an ominous darkness. Bodyguards and soldiers borrowed from the 5 Military Heads littered the floor of this government building as well. Half had thin needles sticking out of the hearts and the nape of their necks, while the other half had fallen to the floor from a single stab wound, yet mysteriously their mouths and eyes were burned back from the inside. With the exception of a few guards still protecting the Mayor in his office, the other still living soldiers were captured by fear and unable to act. Five such men who had abandoned their post were hiding in an office trying not to make a sound to stay safe, yet the occasional echoes of dying men and women frightened them more than anything else.

Guard 1: "I'... I'm scared?"

Guard 2: "I... I can't take it anymore! I'm getting out of here!"

Guard 3: "I'm with you! They aren't paying me enough for this!"

Guard 4: "No! Don't leave me behind!"

Guard 5: "Wait don't-"

But he couldn't stop them. Three of the five guards rushed out of the office frightened out of their minds. Even knowing that even if they escaped the building there would be an Enhancer with terrifyingly powerful ice magic waiting for them they couldn't care less. They just wanted out. No one had even seen the face of the assassin who hid within the darkness and one by one killed the guards of City Hall. The assassin who had alternated between two styles of killing from silent kills with needles reaping their lives, or out of nowhere men would flail about as if their souls were on fire, screaming as blue flames shot out of their eyes and mouths. It was a different kind of fear that they have never experienced before. The fear of the unknown so great they would gladly face Zombies and mutant beast than stay locked up in this building, but in the end...

Sachi: "..."

As the three guards dashed through the halls littered with the bodies, unnoticed they passed just under the assassin hanging from the ceiling masking her existence within the darkness. The assassin had her eyes closed as they were unneeded, feeling at home within the darkness, and without hesitation she let go of the ceiling with sharp fingers able to stab through strong materials and kicked the ceiling shooting herself down without making a single sound. The guard running in the back of the group before he knew what really happened had already left this world. Using only her fingers tips which were as sharp as knives she silently slit his throat and his corpse was gently placed onto the floor as to not alert his comrades.

Sachi: "..."

The assassins trained senses allowed her to pierce through the darkness of the hall and locate the still unaware two guards fleeing, with or without her eyes open. She silently reached into a metal case in her pocket retrieving two long, thin, yet unbreakable Adamantium Needles and threw them towards the fleeing guards. They shot through the space between them and all too easily pierced through their back, cutting through their hearts, with the tip of the needles coming out their torsos.

Sachi: "..."

Hikari SL: (...When you're serious you are scarier than any zombie. I'm glad that Shin is too afraid of you to add you to the harem.)

Hikari said all this to the assassin Sachi through Soul Link, but she didn't get so much a telepathic response from her. Sachi was in Unlocked Mode and far too focused to respond to Hikari. Sachi silently went towards the left open door of the office. To afraid to move to close it the two remaining guards were keeping a vigilant watch on the open door, yet with speed from the reinforcement of Intermediate Ki and her bloodline, and the assassin technique to erase one's presence, Sachi entered the room unnoticed and stealthly moved behind them. Sachi's first move was to stab her dagger into one of the two guard's head. Blue flames burst out of the man's mouth, nose, ears, and eyes. There was only a short scream before his head was burned into just a skeleton. The last living guard was shocked at the scene and tried to scream at the top of his lungs a but a needle dripping with a strange liquid stabbed into his back. The needle oddly didn't strike anywhere fatal, so in desperation he tried to flee, but almost immediately he fell to the floor as in excruciating pain coursing throughout his body.

Sachi: "...It's not too powerful just yet, but Basilisk Poison is fun to use and has room for improvement. See you."

Guard 5: "W... W... Wait! Please... Please kill me!"

Sachi didn't bother to turn around as she left the room to rejoin with Rei laying siege on an upper floor of City Hall where the Mayor was hiding. Then seventy-two seconds later all the while experiencing excruciating pain... The last guard died of shock from Basilisk Poison.

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- *BANG*!

Guard: "Gyhaaa!"

Rei: "Just two left!"

Rei saying this started to sprint down a hallway with a bayonet rifle raised and a spear tied to her back. Throughout the hallway were countless bodies of guards killed by Rei alone and on the other end of the hall were two guards protecting the sole door to the Mayor's office. The two guards pointed Submachine Guns at Rei hoping that they would finally be able to kill her, but this hope was shattered. Rei's agility and reaction speed as an Evolver over Level 40 who had unlocked the First Stage was inhuman and a skill of the Soldier Class, Projectile Prediction, she saw through and predicted the aim of the gunfire using that knowledge to zigzag through the hail of bullet reaching the two guards. Soldier Class skill, Z Shake. From the outside it looked like she merely swayed in a Z shape, yet doing so with lightning speed and precision was all it took to avoided the bullets. The blade of her bayonet rifle stabbed through the neck of one guard, pressed the trigger, blowing the guard away dead with two new holes in his body. The other guard became pale as a ghost at this brutal scene which delayed his own response, and so he followed the same fate as his companion. Like the wind and with only one arm she retrieved her Level 3 Treasure Devil Spear and beheaded the guard in one motion.

Rei: "Don't blame me. Go complain to your boss in hell when he arrives. It won't be a long wait."

Sachi: "Aren't you having fun. Can I join?"

Startled, Rei suddenly heard a voice behind without sensing a presence and swiftly turned around with both her spear and bayonet raised, but calmed down having seeing that the voice belonged to Sachi. She wanted to complain about her suddenly appearing and disappearing out of thin air without a sound, but was glad she was here. Sachi had helped Rei get into City Hall unnoticed and helped her deal with a few troublesome guards inside, so she was happy to for her to have her back. Hikari then contacted them both relaying that no one was left alive within City Hall, so it was alright to proceed. Rei and Sachi now stood in front of the reinforced door to the Mayor's office and with one hard kick they broke the doors down. The man inside saw the two breaking into his office and went for his window. His office was on the fourth floor, yet he felt it was better to take the risk and jump, but he was no allowed to escape. The man met the eyes of one of the woman as he escaped, which made him think of a snake, and felt his body become numb and he fell to the floor. He was then unable to move even a pinky, much less try anything to save his life.

Sachi: "These eyes are pretty good. When they can't control their bodies anymore and can only wait for death... Ah, how wonderful."

Rei: "Hey, I know we're not exactly the good guys since we're carrying out a political purge and I'm here for revenge against this man, but you're really making us look like the villains here... I kinda like it."

Sachi rolled her eyes at those remarks, and so Rei moved on to the feeble Mayor lying on the floor of his office. Sachi's Basilisk Eyes paralyzed him. Her eyes weren't as powerful as a true Basilisk which could cause death or indirectly looking at their eyes causing petrification, but at the very least her eyes could temporary stun non-enhanced weak organisms. Only at A tier Basilisk bloodline could she cause stone petrification and at AA instant death. Rei looked down at the Mayor wondering if he knew who she was, what he had done to her, and the grief that he caused her proud father to cry for the first time in her life as he apologized for getting her involved in his official police matters when the Mayor had ordered his son to hold her back a year in school. She wondered if he knew any of this, but she didn't care if he did or would it change anything. Some, if not most people would tell her that holding a grudge for so long after the actual apocalypse was pointless. Deep down Rei knew that it was, but-

Rei: "...In the end I can't forgive. You're going to die anyways, so..."

Sachi: "Oh, torture is it? Let me help out."

Mayor: "No no no no no noooooooo!!!"

Together Rei and Sachi in acted a scene so gruesome that it forced Hikari keeping watch with her scans to look away and just surveyed their surroundings. First they cut out hid tongue, lips, then gouge out the eyes, next they cut off his arms starting from the tip of his fingers up to his shoulders, and both legs fell to a similar fate. Then finally Rei borrowed an Adamantium Needles soaked in Basilisk Poison and stuck it into the Mayor's torso. Neither Rei not Sachi blinked at the evil they were committing or as blood splashed on their clothes. Rei had seen and done far worse since the apocalypse began and so she was no longer that innocent high school girl she once was, although she wouldn't let her beloved Takashi see her like this. As for Sachi she was a trained assassin with a preference for slow and agonizing deaths.

Rei: "We'll have to burn down the building to hide this. I have a ring equipped on me with the Fire Ball Skill, so we'll be good. It's best of others don't see this side of us, right?"

Sachi: "Doesn't matter to me. I'm not trying to look pure for my boyfriend. I'm just curious which will come first. The Mayor burning alive in his own home, or dying from my poison."

Rei: "*Giggle*! As they say, mystery is the spice of life. That's what my mother taught me. We will always have this memory to cheer us up when we are feeling down. Let's go. I spotted some tacky flammable drapes downstairs for us to use."

And like so the two left City Hall in a lifeless state and now set ablaze. The only witness to this event with Jin having gone off to hide a helicopter was Hikari and Hikari alone, but she swore to herself to forget everything that she saw. She also promised to try to treat Shin nicer for having the good judgment to not include Sachi in his still growing harem. Any man who could see the danger of getting involved with such a person is worth respecting, harem or no harem.

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Proofread by Deltoren

Deltoren:I feel like Sachi could be better at torturing considering she is a sadistic assassin. Hell to a guy like that I would do way worse than her... then again I am a sadist