The hivemind is conquering for me?-Chapter 664: Hunters And Prey
"Interesting. Where do you think they have run off to?" Sigfried asked Francesca, who stood up as she looked in the direction the two ran off to. "I don’t know, but let’s find out. I want to see what’s going on!" Francesca asked as she ran ahead.
Sigfried then turned to his other two companions and asked. "Are you two coming?" The duo then shook their heads in unison and then spoke in unison. "To many people, dear Sigfried. We shall wait in this shade."
Sigfried simply nodded before getting up and ran after Francesca.
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"Lady Valerica? What’s happening? You said we could watch and now they have run off, can we observe where they have gone?" Francesca asked, slightly alarmed as everyone turned silent to look at her."
"This another one of the group, my lady?" A man asked, prompting Valerica to nod. "Yes, This one the one coming in now and the two in the distance under those trees are all your new battle brothers and sisters."
A chuckle of amusement permeated through the surroundings before Valerica addressed Francesca. "I said you could observe the duel, but the next part you cannot observe, it will give you an unfair advantage for your training. That being said, it’s a wonderful day and all these fine individuals are going to leave in a moment, why don’t we have some friendly duels just between us? Don’t worry, I won’t pull any suns out of my pockets, you have my word."
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Sapphire was lying in the garden, resting. She was a bit bored and wanted to sleep in the Mindspace the moment her master came back. Just as she began daydreaming about the master again, she suddenly felt a tug in her link. The master was calling her, urgently.
Sapphire sprang to her feet faster than she has ever done and began sprinting with all her might towards Apollo. He needed her!
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I was booking it. Running as fast as I could, jumping over patches of terrain that were too treacherous to traverse and yet I felt a sense of foreboding in my surroundings. Valerica wasn’t lying. One among that group was a tracker, and a seriously good one as even though I had been running for twelve minutes and they had not given chase yet, I could tell that one of them somehow knew exactly where I was.
’Troublesome.’
My only plan for now was to keep running and hope my backup arrives in time. I decided not to call Onyx, as I knew this was still only a test. I could handle a beatdown, but if she got involved, people would die and I wasn’t ready to do a runner from the world yet, I was quite enjoying myself.
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While Lady Valerica distracted the other fresh meat so the surprise wasn’t ruined for them, the group then rolled out as the time struck fifteen. They calmly walked into the jungle and once out of view from any onlookers stopped.
"Status." The woman with the half shaved head said, prompting a man with a decent amount of metal augments to speak up. "The woman is furthest away and is heading directly into a predator’s nesting ground. She should clear out herself once it lets out its warning. We can begin to skirmish her then. The man however, has slowed down and entered a cave system, but I think he realised I was onto him, so I am confused why he would do so."
A member of the group then walked forward. " A cave system? Show me on the map." The augmented person then pointed at the location causing the man to laugh. "Ha, I hid there during my trail. There are two exits that are both visible from ground level. One in the ravine nearby and one that connects to the lake’s shallows."
The lead woman, the hunt leader, then nodded her head. "Good, Five to each exit with one group to follow in after him. Melee will go underground after him, the rest spring the ambush, Those who are going after the woman, predict the path and keep to Lady Valerica’s warning. Bubble, do your thing."
"Ok, did everyone take the anti nausea medicine?" The man nicknamed bubble asked, prompting nods from everyone. "Alright, locking onto coordinates you have sent tech. Happy hunting all."
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"They infected the air around me? That is quite the trick." I couldn’t help chuckle at the unique Psionic ability. I then expelled all the air in my lungs before forcing my armour to depressurise while I was still inside. New air was then brought into the suit and I breathed in relief. Hopefully that does it. Now come on Chonk... I need you."
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Tamara was sprinting with all her might, she didn’t care about covering her tracks, she was making distance, she knew there was a stretch of plains a few dozen miles away, once she got there and the distance was surmountable, she could then be sneaky and lose track of them.
She had to last longer than the perverted cheater and distance was the best bet. ’Ugh’ Just the thought of him pressing himself up against her back like that to ’suplex’ her left her feeling disgusted. ’How dare he touch me so lewdly. I hope they break his sorry excuse for a dick off for that.’
As she ran that thought left a smile on her lips, he was probably already caught, all he had going for him was cheap tricks, veterans wouldn’t fall for them, the only reason she did was because she didn’t expect a pervert to be even slightly capable of using their brain. In the next fight she could break him. She would...
*ROAAAAAAR*
Tamara stopped in her tracks, forcing her to tumble. There was something ahead... That roar. It almost shook the meat off her bones. She also felt an unnatural fear attempt to take hold of her, but she resisted that.
Still, she knew that roar was a warning and if she went further that warning would turn hostile. ’Shit, I need to get out of here. Shit that wastes time. SHIT!’
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Mere meters away from the aforementioned cave entrance, an opaque bubble suddenly materialised and then popped. Within the bubble were fifteen people who wasted no time and began running to their respective assigned locations.
The hunt leader looked around as her group all went to their designated locations with swift efficiency, all except one. "Bubble? What’s up?"
Bubble gulped and began to tense his augmented arm, unsure how to explain what happened. "My tag, it’s gone. I don’t know how, but the tag for the Apollo man is gone."
"It’s alright bubble, we will find an opportunity to reapply if he escapes our ambush." She then spoke into comms. "Target Alpha broke lock on. Be wary, most likely he has a high Psionic sense. Hunt leader and squad going under."
She then turned back to tech support. "Bubble tag us all and go find an overwatch." The man then nodded his head and ran away from the hunt leader.
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Retracting my Psionic aura, I resisted the urge to keel over, having pushed my sight well past my previous best. However, I was reinvigorated as I felt the Psionic energy that was around my body previously applied to their group and more importantly the one who had the ability. ’Gotcha bitch.’
I then stood up and took in a deep breath, it looked like the most elite had followed after him into this cave system while the others had gone past my vision, most likely some exits I had yet to find. ’Oof, I am going to take at least some damage here. Well, maximum effort.’
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Hunt leader held her hand up in a fist and crouched down slightly after only making it a short way into the cave system. "Something is off. Hunt team 2 and 3. Anything on your end?"
"Nothing, hunt leader. We have set up a kill box in the ravine and an electric trap has been set in the lake."
"Copy that, though stay alert I have a bad...Feeling, what is that?" She said gesturing ahead at the two glowing purple dots that had appeared in the distance. "Matchstick."
"On it."
A man in the group suddenly stepped to the side and manifested a bow and arrow made of Pyrokinetic power. He drew the arrow and fired in the direction of the purple lights that were definitely getting closer.
The arrow flew but then abruptly went out, but with a flash of light and that’s when they saw it approaching. "Battle positions!" Hunt leader yelled, manifesting a golden lance in her hand as the hulk of armour barrelling towards them became audible. "Hold position!" She declared and the hunt team did just that, all branding their respective weapons. Once the target became visible to the group, Hunt leader grew perplexed as to why it was charging them with an arm extended and realised just in time. "Down you fools!"
A sword suddenly emerged from behind them, one of the hunt team did not react in time and his shoulder was sliced through, the rest were fast enough, though hair was clipped.
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I doubled my speed, grabbing Zircon on the fly and charged through the bulkiest man while his centre of gravity was off, splatting him against the wall and struck out at the man who shot me with an arrow, cleaving deep into his arm as I ran past. I then felt something pierce deep into my shoulder blade from behind, but ignored it and the female scream that followed.
"You ruined my hairdo punk! I’m going to break your legs!"
Once I was on the surface again, I looked around for the tracker and found him quite easily as he began shooting at me from quite the distance. I then smiled under my armour and ran in the opposite direction and shouted with Psionic amplification.
"Sapphire! Maim the augmented one!"
