Chapter 519 - 512. Cat has nine lives
Leah clasped her mouth and closed her eyes, trying to coat her body in mana in an attempt at self-defense. The other reporters were starting to scream, but the others clamped those people’s mouths with their hands.
Get down and shut your mouth.
They remembered the scout’s words. Getting down to the floor, they closed their eyes and prayed to all the Celestial Beings they knew.
Whether it was because of their prayer, or because it wasn’t their time to die, they heard a loud clanking sound from the bridge. Leah opened her eyes and peeked from the back window. Her view, however, got blocked by two sleets of steel shields with black linings and array carving.
It was then did she realized the surrounding area was no longer as dark as before. She turned to look forward, to where the humvee was hastily going toward--the blinking beacon and shining purification device.
Again, dull and sharp clanking sounds could be heard from the bridge. The defender held the shields tightly as the fragment’s tail kept striking them, while its claws were occupied by Ron’s daggers.
The scout tried hard to parry the onslaught and pushed the fragment off the bridge, but it was already hard to avoid being thrown off himself. In the first place, it wasn’t a fight that could be won with only a four-star esper who wasn’t a pure damage dealer. The small injury he got was piling up and started to hinder his movement, and his stamina got sucked with every teleport he did.
But finally, he heard the screeching sound of a stopping vehicle across the bridge. Someone was shouting at the reporters to come out of the Humvee and duck behind the steel plate protecting the purification device.
"Go back!" Ron said to the defender holding the shield. "Fortify the post!"
"Yes, Sir!"
The defender took the shield, which was a part of the slate protecting the purification device, and ran back toward the outpost. He joined the other esper stationed there, who had been sending out an emergency signal to the main base.