Terror Infinity Side B
Chapter 17, H.O.T.D 2
At the compound of Commander C.
There, waiting outside a ways away was the last strike team consisted of Shin, Hikari, Drake, Kohta and Alice, and the thirty elite soldiers under their command. Commander A, Commander B, and the Mayor (Hikari couldn't look me in the eye as she confirmed the Mayor's death for whatever reason) had fallen to the combined efforts of the Team Japan and Walking Dead Unit. Word of the purge had yet to reach this compounds ears, so no one was expecting them, giving this small, yet powerful group the chance to overcome a much larger force than their own.
Shin: "Now all that's left for us to do is wrap up this place and we're finished. Here's the plan. I'll infiltrate the base alone first, and take a page from a certain Warlord to set up bombs outside the housing of Commander C's elite forces. Once I've finished and two minutes pass, Kohta, borrowing, and I mean just BORROWING my Gauss Snipe Rifle (The damn nerd keeps hugging my rifle like a Anime body pillow... I miss Lala) and snipe Commander C. The Gauss Rifle can totally shoot through the walls of the compound with ease and Hikari will guide your aim with Psyche Force Scan and Soul Link. The resulting gunshot will be too loud to ignore, so the base will then go on high alert even if they don't realize that their boss is dead. I'll activate the bombs as well from my end to kill the elite forces. Kohta, will next destroy the watch towers after you kill the commander. Drake and Alice, the two of you will march into the compound and make a big scene. Hikari, it's finally your time to shine and cause some death and destruction of your own. Protect Drake and Alice, and use your remote control weapons and destroy everything that looks important. I'll cause some mayhem of my own till everyone in the compound either surrenders, or dies."
Shin finished explaining the plan set off alone under the darkness of the night. Activating the Dark Walker skill Eyes of the Cat, his vision adapted perfectly to the darkness of the night and felt as comfortable as taking a walk in the afternoon on a sunny day. Shin using Instant Movement sped forward like the wind, yet he silently approached the compound by entering the Third Stage to simulate Sachi. Even while moving so fast, crossing dozens of meters across the earth with each step, copying the fundamental way Sachi moved swiftly yet silently allowed Shin to not make a sound to alert the soldiers on patrol watching out for possible night raids. In addition his Hidden Class had a stealth ability which made it even less likely to be spotted. From watchtowers shining down power beams of light to catch any suspicious movements, but with his own eyes and Hikari's scans he avoid them with ease without alerting suspicion. When Shin reached a fence that surrounded the perimeter of Commander C's Compound, with Void Movement, he jumped high and lightly kicked the air propelling himself over the fence, and kicking the air a second time towards the earth allowed him a soft and silent landing.
Shin: (Good I'm in. Now like Solid Snake, I'll sneak my way past security!)
Shin feeling some excitement at his first stealth mission ran towards his destination while avoiding all wondering eyes utilizing Psyche Force Scan and the Third Stage. He couldn't help but think that he honestly preferred direct fights and not sneaking around like this, but sneaking missions had their own amusement to them and so he just embraced it. He could only feel this way since he didn't fear the soldiers or even the high level Enhancers living on this military compound. One on one, or one against a hundred, Shin felt that he wouldn't be challenged no matter how they came at him. The strongest individual in all of Tokonosu City Survival Camp was mostly likely Takashi. This was a acknowledged fact from countless rumors his team had picked up and from the respect and admiration he had personally seen in the eyes of many military personnel as they looked at Takashi, so his experience fighting him boosted his confidence. Of course, what he was doing now was a surprise attack which gave his team the advantage, while a open battle where they knew he was coming would be all but suicidal alone, but-
Shin: (Even so I don't think that I'll die. My power after the last session of exchanges shot up by a lot. The Dark Walker's Gift of Darkness III bestows me great advantages at night. Fifty percent boost in all stats and I can merge with the darkness with stealth. This is superior to the standard buff I received from my old magic armor. If I wanted to couldn't I just kill everyone here by myself?)
Shin knew this line of thinking could be dangerous, but he couldn't help but indulge in such thoughts as his ultimate goal in this realm besides building a harem was to become a OverPowered protagonist from the bottom up. Especially as he Hikari notified him of a group of soldiers moving about in a nearby building. He didn't have to enter the building on his route to the housing of the elite experts, but the windows faced that building, so-
Shin SL: (So it's better to get rid of them before I set the bombs. Got it!)
Hikari SL: (You're having too much fun here, otaku.)
Shin Sl: (That can't be helped, Hikari. Without fun, Anime, Manga, and women what's there to live for and get up in the morning for!)
Hikari SL: (Why are you putting women below Anime and Manga!? You good for... Stop. Stop it Hikari! If you keep responding to him like this people will start calling me a certain annoying character type!)
Despite saying this Hikari showed Shin exactly where the soldiers were for him to take them out. A big group of seven soldiers on the sixth floor. According to the scans they seemed to be chatting happily as they were walking towards a room at the end of the floor occupied by... little kids. Both girls and boys alike. Without clothes and bruised all over were lying on the floor. Hikari at this moment was boosting her Psyche Force with her Persona Adrasteia, so her scans were so detailed to such a high level that it even picked up the soldiers wicked smiles and the conversions about what they were about to do and the vacant dead eyes of the children.
Shin: (THAT'S IT...EVERYONE DIES!)
Beginning to feel what was probably the insanity of the apocalypse which drove Yue Zhong into a mad tyrant in his tale, Shin's previous good mood was shattered by the reality in front of him and his own blood lust boiling to the surface. Shin knew that he was no hero of justice and nor did he desire to become one like Shiro Emiya, yet what angered him angered him, and his anger right now almost blinded his rational to not just incinerate the soldiers through the wall with Fire Bolt which he knew he could do easily. He also knew and had to remind himself that such an attention grabbing action could ruin their already flimsy plan to attack the military compound. His side was winning one battle after the next, but this was only possible due to swiftly taking out the enemy command structure and the element of surprise. Knowing this Shin settled for something more up close and personal as he charged into the building.
Not intending to allow those vile men to see their victims, Shin rushed through the halls in a beastly manner on all four and climbing the stairs. Shin had long since forgotten about stealthy action, but his speed was truly lightning fast and didn't allow anyone a chance to notice him. In just ten seconds he reached the sixth floor. The room with the children and the soldiers was down the hall to the left of where he appeared. Shin's face was filled with rage as he entered Unlocked Mode and then jumped with Instant Movement down the hall. Since he jumped out at such a high speed, he was heading straight toward the wall at the end of the hall, yet he landed on the wall then made another jump and charged into the group of ten soldiers in an instant.
The men were not on duty, were unarmed, not expecting combat till the zombie legion arrives, and were about to partake in some *Fun*, so when the first person lost his head, the others naturally surprised stared at his neck in shock. It wasn’t until another person’s head flew off before they came back to their senses. They were all Level 20+ Enhancers after all who had gone through numerous bloody battles. Unfortunately, it was already too late and they didn't even have have the chance to yell for help. Shin was in the middle of the group with the Z-Saber and he was like a tiger among a flock with this Sci-fi weapon, high physical stats, his Ki, and the combat instincts from the First Stage of the Unlocked Mode. It was not even a battle. It was a slaughter of Shin swinging his peerless and sharp Deltoid energy blade over and over again that lasted just one second. Body parts and blood splattered the hallway for a instant yet in the next there was nothing. Not even a red stain on the floor.
Hikari SL: (...Why did you put their bodies in the Dimensional Belt?)
Shin SL: (I didn't want to alert anyone with the smell of blood. The main characters told us the strongest enhancers around, this Junpei and his group, is second only to the Walking Dead Unit, so maybe one of them has sharp enough senses to notice the bloodbath. That's why I took their bodies into the belt.)
Hearing this, Hikari was both surprised and frightened at Shin's calm and sharp judgment despite just moments ago flying into a rage. She was happy that he had not become a pure berserker, yet was worried if that was a bad thing if he was becoming something more or less human. Despite her worries, she didn't vocalize them since this wasn't the time to do so and maybe perhaps in this dimension such a change was to be expected or better yet highly desired if one wanted to survive.
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- *BANG*!!!
- *EXPLOSION*!!!
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A few minutes later the next part of the operation began. Guided by Hikari, a delighted Kohta wielding the Gauss Sniper Rifle with a loud bang released a terrorizing bullet. It shot with immense kinetic force through reinforced walls and straight into Commander C's head over 5,000 meters away as he slept in bed. This gunshot did not go unnoticed in the dead of night as countless soldiers on guard became alerted or those off duty sprung out of their beds, but that sound was all too soon overshadowed by the next sound of a loud explosion at the heart of the compound. The housing of the elite experts of Commander C were swallowed up in a blast from bombs set up by Shin.
Watch Tower Soldier: "Enemy attack! Shine down the spotlight and-"
Two soldiers were posted on top of each watch tower, and just as the soldier ordered his comrade to shine down the spotlight to find the enemy, *BANG!*, a large hole appeared in both soldiers chest.
Kohta: "Double tap, baby! Hahahaha! Gauss Sniper Rifles are the best! Bang!!"
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Kohta with a mad glee in his heart and an ecstatic expression on his face turned the Gauss Rifle towards the other watchtowers and fired one round after the other. Even from a distance the bullets reached their targets long before anyone heard the gunshots going off and then seeing more soldiers trying to repay the ones killed Kohta used the power of the Gauss Rifle to destroy the watchtowers themselves. The Gauss's rifle in his hands was also a infinite ammo model, so he never needed to stop shooting to reload.
The entire military compound was in disarray from the endless sniper kills. They wanted to find this deadly sniper who took out all the watchtowers, but so much was going on and the chain of command was broken. The strength of an army lied in its organized ability to act together and putting the whole over the one, but now there was no such organized command structure and everyone was beginning to just think about themselves. As they were now they were less threatening than a unorganized gathering of zombies and evolved zombies without a Z commander type present.
Soldier: "I'm getting out of-"
- *BANG*!
One soldier tried to escape and abandoned his post, but foolishly doing so in front of a commanding officer he was shot in the back of the head without hesitation by the officer.
Captain: "No one leaves! Anyone who tires will be subjected to military law! Shit, it hasn't even been confirmed that the Commander is dead, yet all of you can only think of-"
And it was then as a few captains and experienced soldiers were trying to bring back order did a new disaster befall them. From the East of the compound and demolishing the perimeter fence and casually strolling in were two human and a small animal. A man in his late thirties with a strong build wearing a tank top shirt with vermilion color hair, a small cute girl with red hair, and her even smaller dog. Drake, Alice, and Zeke. Over a few dozen soldiers saw them walk in without a care in the world, but obviously releasing killing intent, so they without hesitation they opened fire on them.
Hikari SL: (No one cares about Drake, but not even minding about shooting a little girl is too evil! Defensive Force Field!)
Just before the bullets reached them a translucent and wide wall appeared out of thin air floating in front of the intruders. The bullets struck this wall and each one was repelled. The wall held strong and showed no signs of shattering. Only a barrage of rockets or a even more powerful weapon could hope to break through Hikari's Defensive Force Field which had ranked up to B tier. A few smart ones understood this immediately and tried to run to the armory to find such weapons, but spotting this through her scans how could Hikari allow this? So just as they were about to reach the building housing the majority of their weapons and ammunition, a remote controlled machine the length of adult male's arm flew above the armory. This remote controlled weapon, one of Hikari's three Psyche Force controlled DRAGOONS gathered energy and from the muzzle tip a pink light of destruction was fired. A beam weaker than the deceased Kampa's destroyed B tier sci-fi weapon, but all the same still powerful melted through the roof of the armory and reeked havoc inside.
- *EXPLOSION*!!!
The beam attack caused a chain reaction inside the armory. Bullets flew in all directions and bombs were set off, and the whole building blew up in a grand explosion claiming the lives of everyone inside and those nearby. From there the remote control DRAGOON set off with two more of its kind controlled by Psyche Force and darted across the military compound. From their attached beam cannons shots were fired which decimated building after building and for those unlucky few who received a direct hit from a beam cannon had half their bodies incinerated.
Drake: "Well look at that! Our Psyche Force user is actually one of our top combatants! Now, Alice, it's for us to go all out as well!"
Alice: "Sure, but please do not talk to me. Hikari and the others said you were a good guy, but a no good pedophilic exiled priest who already has a teenage girlfriend, so..."
Drake: "..."
Drake did his best to ignore those words and focused on the task at hand with Alice. Hikari's recent attacks made some forget about these two and that was a big mistake. Drake raised his right hand that was equipped with his Innocence weapon. In its current form it looked no different from a normal green ring around his middle finger that covered his his finger from the base up, but upon activation the ring expanded across his skin into an arm length green metallic gauntlet that went all the way up to his elbow. Carved on the palm of the gauntlet was a religious cross which now glowed with a bright green light. The light of the holy weapon known as Innocence. One of the enemy soldiers lucky enough to get a hold of a machine gun during this crisis was unlucky enough to draw Drake's attention. The soldier's body glowed faintly with the light of Innocence, was lifted up a few inches off the ground, and finally came hurdling towards Drake. The soldier smashed hard into the now closed fist of the gauntlet crushing his ribcage as Drake now opened his palm.
Drake: "Innocence Activate! Hand of Polaris!"
Drake said the name of his Innocence out loud and now a dark green light enveloped the crippled soldier and was sent flying 500 meters away and smacking hard into a group of soldiers. Hand of Polaris was a Innocence with the special ability to pull and push objects or people. Shin back in the Terminal Lobby when he first saw it commented that it wad similar to the strongest combat ability of the Rinnegan from Naruto which had the power to control gravity or the esper ability of Academy City's strongest LEVEL 5 through vectors, but Drake didn't completely agree. He wasn't under the impression that he was controlling gravity, but using Innocence to take control of special imaginary vectors. Although it was hard to explain, but the best way he could was to describe it not as ordinary vectors, but those that could even move the soul. Hand of Polaris at this time could only push and pull, and was only centered around his right arm, but he had high hopes for this power's future development knowing his weapon was still only B tier.
Drake went on a warpath causing havoc while under the protection of Hikari's defensive shield, and that was when the young girl Alice made her move. In a similar manner to Hikari, Alice buffed her dog Zeke with many spells that boost his specs, and then as an added bonus Hikari did the same upon Alice's request. Now over a dozen magic buffs were now enhancing Zeke who glowed brightly with a rainbow of lights, and ran out from the protection of the defensive shield and-
Alice: "It's chow time, Zeke! Get them!"
And the carnage began. Zeke's muscles and bones wiggled in a grotesque manner as it grew larger and larger by the second, and what was once a cute dog was now a great mutant beast drooling spit that was acidic eyed the cowering soldiers with a bottomless hunger. Zeke transformed into a Type 2 Mutant Beast that was far from the monstrosity that was Aqua's Silver Fang, but for all of these hardened soldiers now cowering at the sight of Zeke. A true monster had appeared before them. Zeke rushed out with speed greater than even S2 Evolved Zombies killed everyone in sight. The mutant beast would claw at, stomp on, or just devour the upper bodies of soldiers one after the other. Zeke had a beastly, yet joyful expression on his face as if this was a game that allowed him to catch food, but for those watching...
Shin: "Yep, I don't want a dog like this when we officially get married, Hikari. Aqua's transformed state still gives me nightmares to this day and Zeke would only be a bad reminder. What kind of pet do you want? I think our children would still love to have one."
Hikari SL: (...It's nice that you're not a man who can't envision a future with a family. It truly is in this day and age where modern men get scared at the word commitment and can only see themselves getting married and having kids after they turn 30 or 40... but long as that vision has more than one wife... I'll leave it as, No Comment. Also, get your act together! This is the battlefield! Why is the girl telling you this?)
Shin SL: (Why? Aren't we just about done?)
Shin said this as he looked down from the highest building still standing in the military complex. He had a relaxed expression on his face as he looked down to observe the battle, but his defocused eyes showed that he was still in the battle state of Unlocked Mode. While everyone else was fighting Shin went out to deal with anyone he considered too strong and dealt with them along with those nearby. As proof, behind him and being strangled by the neck by his Kagune were eight experts belonging to Commander C. They were all above Level 30 and one of them was even an Evolver with a nasty skill who could possibly have killed Drake or Alice if he had somehow gotten close to them. They weren't in their housing when Shin bombed it, so he set out to take care of them. These soldiers held by Shin's eight Kagune tentacles were still alive and struggling to free themselves, but it was no use. After exchanging for the SS Rated One-Eyed Ghoul Genetic Mutation, his Kagune has upgraded by a tier in quantity and quality. He could now summon eight tentacles, two more than before, and the concentration of Rc Cells increased several fold and allowed him to use a more powerful and durable Kagune than ever.
Shin: (Eight Kagune tentacles allows me to cover all blind spots and increases my attack options, but the best part is the increased RC count. Without additional reinforcements my original frail Kagune can block a hail of bullets with ease! The striking power and attack speed shot up along with durability, and I'm still adjusting to this new mutation! Hahah! I wonder just what will SSS and the final One-Eyed King rated ghouls mutations will be like! And the day I can 100% adapt to them with the Fourth Stage... Hahaha! Just how powerful will I be at that time!?)
Shin fantasized about his future prospects just as one of them soldiers behind him being strangled by his Kagune raised his hand towards Shin's back. He was going to cast a fireball spell enhanced twice to burn him alive, yet it wouldn't work. Even without relying on Hikari's scans he was well aware of what was going on in the space around him in Unlocked Mode. Plus he felt movement through one of the tentacles giving him ample warning. Shin didn't even bat an eye at this incoming danger and just hurled the caster and the others strangled by the neck with his Kagune off the roof. Those soldiers didn't even have the chance to scream before they hit the ground below busting open their heads with brain matter and blood now staining the ground.
Hikari SL: (...There's something wrong with me feeling attracted to how ruthless you can be. Ah, not only do I have bad taste in men, my mind has now been... Anyways, Shin, we have a problem.)
Shin SL: (What is it? Far as I can see everything is going well. Everyone is alive, and the soldiers we borrowed are now moving in to subdue the everyone who has surrendered. Hasn't everything been wrapped up nicely in a blood stained bow for the Takagi faction?)
Hikari: (...Do you remember the experts you bombed by planting bombs where they were sleeping minutes ago. Well, it seems like some of them survived somehow and escaped through a hidden tunnel under the building. I count about 40 or so experts. I thought that they were dead and missed them till just now and they just escaped Kohta's shooting range. They took a few cars loaded with heavy weaponry and ammunition and are fleeing to the South. What should we do?)
Shin: (...Hikari, coordinate the operation here and call me if anything happens. I'll head after the escaping experts on foot with Instant Movement.)
Hikari SL: (Alright, but will you be fine alone? I'm not very skilled at telling how strong someone is, but even through my scans I felt that they were all at a high level. Especially the one who seems to be the leader.)
Shin SL: (I'll manage. Besides, this is a chance to really go out and test my new level of power after the exchanges. Takashi was strong, but we weren't really trying to kill each other despite how it looked. We never attacked each other without a certainty that the other could survive somewhere in the back of our heads. That's why... I'm looking forward to this!)
Shin revealed a somewhat childish smile filled with anticipation for the upcoming battle. Long as it wasn't a battle that had the certainty of claiming the lives of his comrades and he was up against enemies who were certainly villains, he was all for acting out the role of a mainstream protagonist, so he jumped off the roof of the building and chased after the escaping experts of the Diamond Dogs Unit on foot.
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Proofread by Deltoren
With how easy these battles have been I've realized how bias I've been about God and Devil World, so next chapter I'll have Shin fight a hard battle against some elite Enhancer and Evolvers for some reason. Also, I'll won't be doing double chapters as much. From here on the chapter lengths get much longer, so you won't be losing out in content. I will do it for like the one short chapter there is. We are almost half way through the arc.
Editor Deltoren: I think a high-level mutant or zombie combined with a high-level enemy team would be better