MMORPG: Rise of the Interstellar God - Chapter 158: Fight Spirit

? Construct

║ ╰?[Name]: Assault Mecha Vk.5

║ ╰?[LvL]: 100

║ ╰?[Firepower]: 100,000

║ ╰?[Construct Type]: Mecha

White stood with her team at the top of a destroyed skyscraper, observing the looming machine with a pair of optical binoculars. This location gave her an incredible view.

Unfortunately, that was because the city had undergone heavy bombing.

A captain, Roland, approached White. “What did Hulk say?”

White lowered her binoculars. “We have to regroup near the Temple of Valor. We’re going to organize a raid on this assault mecha.”

Roland was shocked. “Seriously?! We’re going to fight it face-to face?! That’s insane!”

White shrugged and began walking away from the edge of the building. “These are the orders of the mission leader. We’ll obey them.”

Roland shouted, “To hell with orders! Only Apophis could take one of those things down!”

White didn’t even look back as she answered. “I don’t think we’ll succeed, either. However, there’s a hierarchy in this guild, and we will respect it. Hulk is our mission leader, so we’ll follow his orders.”

Roland let out a contemptuous puff of air. “Pfff!”

White quickly communicated with the rest of her team. “Well, time to get moving. As you know, we’ve spotted quite a few ambushes from up here, either by Imperial troops or by groups of players. Be ready at all times to either flee or fight. Let’s go!”

Roland and White’s team had been personally selected by White herself. Each member had a well-defined function. However, they each had one detail in common: each was a Hunter.

Hunters were, without a doubt, the most versatile and easiest-to-play class in the game. Specializing in ranged weapons was a huge strength, but they also had a wide range of useful Skills.

Offensive Skills, defense Skills, buffing Skills, tanking Skills, and even healing Skills, though these were mostly designed to heal their combat pets, not other players.

Because of this versatility, the team had multiple layers of redundancy. Any single player could die, and their role would still be filled by someone else.

Moreover, White was a brilliant strategist, and was especially good at tactical planning. Therefore, she carefully managed her team’s formation as they began traveling towards the Temple of Valor.

The players formed a cluster surrounded by all their combat pets, so that in the event of an ambush, the players themselves could react without any danger to themselves.

***

They walked tensely for an hour without trouble.

However, at that point, a player named Yarra said, “My mutant eagle sees three players about 300 meters to the north-east! Most likely an ambush.”

White responded, “Shit! Well, I guess it was going to happen at some point. All right, Yarra, you and your brother Yarro will go to the 30th floor of that skyscraper. Set up a good overwatch with your sniper rifles.

“Roland, you and your pet act as bait. The rest of you, prepare your pets to swarm the enemy when they appear!”

Roland went forward alone for about two minutes with his pet, which was a giant rhinoceros. If one looked very closely, a faint shimmer could be seen surrounding Roland.

Suddenly, his pet stepped on a landmine!

It exploded, creating a crater ten meters across! The shock wave hurled Roland back, landing him on top of a nearby car.

Three players emerged from a nearby building: a Boxer, an Engineer, and a Warrior.

The Warrior said, “I hate landmines. They’re such a fucking cheap Skill.”

The Engineer answered, “Why didn’t this moron die? He’s just a Hunter. Their defenses are supposed to be as weak as Espers, right?”

The Warrior stepped forward in front of Roland. “Sorry, my man. This is nothing personal. But we lost two levels and all our money on this shitty planet. Gotta make up for it somehow…”

But before he could attack Roland, a powerful beam of green energy charred the Warrior!

The two other enemy players were terrified by this and hurriedly backed away.

White had just used her Legendary weapon, [Staff of the Prophetess], that she had won in the dungeon of Messiah’s Path. This was, in fact, the first time she’d used it in real combat.

Everyone was stunned by the power of the attack, especially since all three enemy players were LvL 23, barely two levels below her.

But before the remaining enemies could respond, Yarra and Yarro finished charging their DPS Skills and killed the Engineer with shots to the chest and head.

Only the Boxer survived for more than ten seconds. He immediately fled, terrified and hoping to go unnoticed by the players he had intended to be his victims.

The Boxer slipped behind a sheet of metal that was hidden in shadow. He sighed in relief, thinking that he had escaped—

But the pack of Hunter combat pets was of a different opinion.

Birds, bats, rats, and even a lion ripped him from his hiding place and devoured him alive.

It was an overwhelming victory.

White’s team hadn’t suffered a single player loss, and only Roland had lost his pet and suffered minor injuries. This was thanks to one of the powers of White’s staff, which had placed a protective bubble around Roland, absorbing 90% of the explosion’s damage.

The rest of their journey went well…

…Until White came face to face with Ceasar.