Exploding Assassins

Detonate-Y/N

Y . . .

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM !....

The entire building shook for a while before dust came out from the ground floor.

Lucas also saw some bloodied corpses and vestiges flying away by breaking past the translucent windows. Lucas was immune to such scenes; he just turned around and started climbing again, but he didn't smile even though his goal was achieved.

Lucas wouldn't think much before killing his enemies, but that didn't mean he disrespected life itself. The guys that blew up down there didn't have a special feud with him, but to achieve success, he had to make sure they wouldn't bother him. That's why he killed them and observed silence so as to show his respect for the dead. If they were indeed his enemies, then he wouldn't even give a single thought about it, whether they were crushed or eaten alive.

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Alert!

Sensory implants are now active

Indicators:

Immobile - Blue

Mobile - Red

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Lucas knew basic programming which he had harvested back then from the underworld thugs, so he programmed his super watch to tell him which targets were mobile and which were immobile, so that he could differentiate between the dead and the alive.

He also made sure that if two sensory implants come very close to each other, they will be marked as a single unit so as to avoid the situations where two or more implants get stuck in a single person and on the map, there will be two red dots represented for him alone.

Lucas now had a clear understanding of the situation and after looking at the red and blue dots around, he was surprised to see that as many as 30 had survived the blast.

"Seems like they are the cream of the crop, but hehe, I still have another gift for you all."

But suddenly Lucas's brain was struck with an interesting idea.

"Hmm, if some guy survives the second explosion too, then won't it be a waste to kill him? Hehe, guess I will perform memory alteration on the survivors then."

This plan was indeed cruel, but the group of assassins were no innocents either. To become stronger, they too had made their hands dirty, so Lucas didn't feel guilty about it.

Lucas was now climbing above 600m. He removed his windbreaker as it was swaying with the strong wind, disturbing his balance.

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Alert! Sensor 'G' has been activated.

Detonate Y/N

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"Haha, seems like someone just reached the trap…Y."

Boom!

Another explosion, Lucas could also hear a scream which died down after a while.

At the ground floor a few minutes earlier -

The first group of assassins had just entered the ground floor, after which more started to turn up.

Some were more like mercenaries instead of assassins as they were here just for the rewards. Shiv was one such guy as he was ordered to complete this mission by the 'Velvet' organization.

He had planned to secure the central tower first, but after experiencing the explosions on the road which he barely escaped, he was on high alert. He realized that there were more fearsome people than him around.

The assassins were all eyeing each other to reduce their competition but had unknowingly entered a non-violence pact as they knew if they wasted time around, then the earphone guy would take away the prize.

So everyone was searching for staircases and lifts. Shiv was the first person to arrive, so he had already searched the entire place but couldn't find any leads. He was deciding whether to head out and search or to remain here, but just then his instincts ticked off, and he immediately started running out of the entrance. Just as he managed to reach out, an explosion took place.

BOOM!

He was blasted off due to the explosion. When he regained his senses and looked around, he was frightened to see corpses lying around. He went back again to check in, but there were very few survivors. He shook his head and steeled his resolve.

"Whatever happens, if I don't get the codex, then my mother will be …"

Shiv wiped away the tear that was formed at the corner of his eyes and looked up just to see a man climbing.

Shiv had the necessary means to climb, but given these scenarios, he was more than sure that the bastard who was climbing had more gifts for all of them.

So instead of climbing, he hid around. After almost 15 minutes passed away, another explosion rang in his ears. He saw a bloodied figure coming crashing down to the ground.

The scream from earlier was no more as the guy was smashed to pieces after crashing down. All the assassins climbing on the building were frightened after seeing this.

But Shiv, as if he was waiting for this chance, without any second thought, started climbing through the way from where the body had fallen down.

"Hmm, my guess was right…that guy did place bombs, such a dreadful bastard."