The Universe is Innately Just - Chapter 312

After that event, he found himself obliged to seek truth in the middle of the battlefield. And when teams had been formed by the armored force that arrived in the Core, he had been one of the first to engage himself.

To the past member of the police assault team, his body turned restless the moment he found nothing to do, especially when that habit was aggravated due to his current state of mind.

He made the engine of his MechSuit screamed to the top of their lung, and his shining figure glinted to the sky as a vast trail of glinting energy was left behind him. The other MechSuits followed shortly after his flight, one left and one right as they both tried to circle around the towering creature.

Their figure disappeared among the factories beside the highway, where the jeep shaped vehicle advanced. Inside of Leov’s scope, the towering scarlet creature grew bigger in his size as its flaming fur glinted in the distance. He directed his aim as he waited for the best moment to act. His shot wouldn’t be executed with the intent to kill, but to assist.

“MP.R, when will you make contact with the unit?”, Leove exclaimed calmly as he coordinated himself with the flying Ronnie.

“We will be in positions in less than twenty seconds.”

He received the answer shortly after his question and began gazing at the feedback given to him by his AI. His surroundings were clear, and the type of weapon in his hand wasn’t the kind to be bothered by the wind trajectory or friction with the air. He only needed to aim his shot to assist the two pilots to the best of his capacities.

Nonetheless, that didn’t mean that his job wasn’t important as it could be said that the life of his comrade laid in the grasp of his hand. Whether the towering creature would tunnel vision on the two MechSuit or be controlled by their tempered attack depended on him.

Time ticked quietly as their preparation ended smoothly. Each second that passed made the incoming confrontation loom in the heart of the soldiers, and before long, the two armored combatants and the jeep shaped vehicle prepared the launch of their coordinated attack.

But before that even happened, Leove felt a gaze land on him as a horrifying sensation of being watched spread through his body. This wasn’t the first time he felt this instinctual feeling, but that didn’t lessen his panic as that sensation always came with a bullet streaking in his direction. Just as he prepared himself to alert the ready-to-fight MechSuits, he heard a silent whisper in the back of his ears.

Cease your attack.

The voice was hollow and seemed to have traveled with the wind from a faraway land, but that whisper drilled through his ear and entered his brain, causing him to jitter out of his aiming form.

Leove turned around him in panic, and the surroundings of the advancing vehicle, but it was to no avail as his AI didn’t sense any life form nearby.

“Do not engage!”, he ordered swiftly as he felt dread in his heart. The only reason the squad leader had managed to not lose his calm was due to the fact that he didn’t sense any negative intent in that voice. Only a simple order that asked him to stop the operation. “I repeat, stay on standby, and do not engage under any occasion.”

The other member of the squad gazed at him with puzzlement in their glances, and only the driver didn’t seem to care about the change of event as the woman in front of the wheel focused on her task.

Nonetheless, the two MechSuit users listened to his order as they repositioned themselves. They didn’t leave the sea of factories but continued flying through them with lessened speed as they neither abandoned their positions nor did they drift of their initial path.

Leove’s tilted his head slightly to the right as he nearly glued his eye on the scope of his weapon. The towering creature entered his sight. He connected his sight to the AI as he began zooming his view thanks to the influence of the bio-technological chip. His face turned white the moment his eyes landed on the head of the towering creature.

There he saw what appeared like a vague figure under the forced zoom of his war assist AI. The vague figure seemed to be looking at his direction; his eyes, in particular, seemed to be looking directly at him through his scope.

“Who are you…?”, he muttered in a shallow tone that oozed of disbelief. His voice had been low, but every member of the squad was connected through their AI, and had thus managed to hear the confusing sentence.

None of them understood what he meant, as the only thing visible from their position was the towering monster in the distance. Doubt about the sanity of their leader flashed in the minds of the soldiers, but they quickly brushed that possibility off as the man leading them was well known for his sharpness of mind.

“What is going on, Chief?”, asked one of man controlling the two drones but the only thing he received as an answer was the sound made by the friction of the wheel with the asphalt- floored- highway. He opened his lips, in an attempt to once again ask for clarification, but no word left his mouth as he saw Leove get up in a standing position on the advancing vehicle.

Under their high speed, the wind whipped at the soldier’s face but didn’t manage to force him into shutting his eyes. Nonetheless, they turned into sharp slits that gazed at the distance. Leove waited patiently as the jeep advanced; time ticked, but he didn’t give any order during the rest of their advance.

The only thing he said was a simple ‘stop’ toward the driver that immediately executed himself. The towering monstrosity was less than a kilometer from their position, and the two armored soldiers could be seen flying nearby the standing still vehicle.

A shadow flashed out of the vehicle as Leove skillfully passed over the opened top of the vehicle. He walked dozens of meters forward before coming to a stop. Calmness could be seen from his relaxed state, but the hand clenched around his weapon had turned white from the strength it exerted.

Strangely, none of the soldiers in his team questioned his action. A few tried, but the moment they did, they saw the towering creature stop in the distance. After that, their eyes opened widely as they clearly saw a black dot rapidly approach their position from the sky.

The dot fell on the ground, and the next moment, a black haired youth was standing in front of Leove.

“What the h*ll?”, roared one of them as he jumped out of his seat due to the release of his acc.u.mulated stress.

“When?”, mumbled one man who was controlling a drone. He couldn’t understand how the figure standing across Leove had managed to move this fast, all along bypassing the detection of their drones.

Every pair of eyes was glued on the black haired man, and only after a few seconds did those same eyes shift from the young man to the humongous beast standing dozens of meters behind him.

“He was using the creature as a mount to travel!?”, that thought appeared at the same time in the mind of the soldiers.

Their shocked mind caused their tongue to roll in the back of their mouth, and the next few moments that passed were spent in utter silence as they even lowered their breathing in front of the black haired stranger.

“Who are you?”, asked Leove as he found the man’s figure particularly familiar. He felt as though he had already seen the youth behind, and that caused the squad leader to feel a grating sensation in his head.

Fell’s lips moved as he was going to open them to answer the man, but he stopped midway as he didn’t know how to answer Leove. That silence caused Leove to turn even more restless, and a few of the soldiers even thought that the situation was going to shift to a dangerous one due to the lack of reaction.

But their heart calmed down the moment the youth spoke. It was a youthful voice that seemed to contain power and vitality, but also gave them the impression to be lacking something, and that thing wasn’t something they could precisely pinpoint. The only thing that came to their mind when they heard his voice was that it was captivating yet emotionless.

“I’m just a citizen from the Core.”, he mumbled softly as his eyes glowed with a confusing glow. It was as though the youth was falling in the reminiscence about the memories he knew, but didn’t seem to be able to find them in his mind.