Book 1: Chapter 86.4: The Outer Station Part IV

Book 1: Chapter 86.4: The Outer Station Part IV

Scarlet

I clear my throat before turning to the kid and asking, Anyways, why are you here?

He points at himself, and I cant help but add, Yes, you. So he answers, I was here because of my dad.

That has me raising a brow.

This makes two Demonic Assaults in a row that he was caught in a Fracture during.

You have bad luck, I state with a firm nod of my head, convinced of my words before turning around to face Belle again while saying, Belle, your parents are both currently dealing with a Class IV Fracture, and the rest of the Associations Guardians are all busy at the moment. So well have to deal with this on our own- I pause with a glance towards the kid -and with the help of any other Guardians who got caught up in here. I turn around to look at Michael as I ask, None of them were reported to be above Class I though, right?

He nods, making me frown.

Looks like were gonna have to protect the people from the demons until backup can arrive, Michael adds before taking the lead, lets first bring these three to one of the bunkers. Then we can use Scarlets hearing to find any people who arent already in a bunker. He pauses for a second before nodding his head towards me and adding, And you can kill as many as you want along the way, of course.

My frown turns into a grin despite our situation.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.

Damned instincts.

No use fighting your instincts, Tar says into my mind, both him and his brother having vanished at some point during my squabble with Arthur. Especially since theyre only going to grow stronger the closer you get to being a full blooded blood lycan.

My mouth parts slightly at that, but I close it again without making a response.

Thats true. But I do need to fight them in some situations at least.

Anyways, we all begin to make a plan for dealing with this Fracture. And by we all, I mean my team, leaving the others out. Since a Fracture with zombie spawn in it is not a good Fracture to start out with as a new Guardian. And especially not a good place for the civilians

Just because I have incredible hearing doesnt mean that a single light touch to my ears should send shivers down my spine like that. Its just way too much.

I can practically feel the amusement in the tanukis next words as he says, If you say so.

The moment I step out of the train and find a bunch of lower leveled zombies lumbering around, I cant help but follow my instinct to hunt them all out of irritation, just ripping them all to shreds with my claws both my shifted and blood ones. During this process though, I am snapped out of my bloodlust by the realization that blood boil doesnt do anything to these zombies.

Then theres also the fact that blood thirst doesnt seem to activate when killing zombies that were turned.

So I pause and focus on the others, who had left the train as well and are dealing with zombies as well, with Belle actually helping out a little with her barriers. Not that they are doing much. But its probably netting her a lot of EXP nonetheless, so whatever.

I also notice that Emily is frowning, so I move back to meet up with them again, surprising them for a moment as I ask, Emily, are they immune to your skills?

Her frown grows wider at that, and she nods her head, saying, Viral Inducement isnt doing anything to them, and theyre just plain shrugging off the necrotic needles.

Yeah, thought so, I mutter before adding my bit, they seem to be immune to blood boil too. And they dont have any life energy to drain.

Michael steps back, his treants sending a zombie flying as he says, Looks like thisll be tougher than we thought then. He then glances at me and adds, And you might actually need to stay closer in case I need to heal you.

I begrudgingly nod my head at that, only to frown when I notice the pleased expression on his face. One that actually seems to be shared by both Denise who is straight up torching the zombies in a rather putrid smelling battle several meters away despite having likely heard us and Emily.

What has you so happy? I ask while narrowing my eyes.

Oh, nothing, Michael says, trying and failing to smother his grin as his eyes glow green, signifying that hes sharing his vision with his hawk, just that this means youll finally truly be working as a team with us instead of going on a rampage when there arent any stronger demons around.

I hear snickering coming from the three people were guiding to the bunker.

Deciding that silence is the best choice here, I dont respond and instead begin joining Denise in killing the demons close to the group. But while being a bit more careful in regards to taking wounds this time, since I cant just life drain them to heal anymore. Even if the blood moon is out and shining through the skylight straight on us.