Chapter - 12

Prophet in the meantime was taking it slowly, he knew very well that zig-zagging was an excellent way to avoid getting shot but that only applies when the one shooting isn't a super-soldier with an AI that can trace movements and bullet trajectory.

The AI integrated into the nanosuit analyzed Kallen's movements and started tracing a trajectory to hit the girl's vital organs while Prophet nocked the arrow, the world around him came to a stop as his eyes found the spot that he will hit. He let go the arrow which flew in the air at incredible speed before stabbing itself into Kallen's thigh causing the girl to fall on the ground.

Kallen grit her teeth and looked at the destroyed chopper. She was used to fighting more straight forward enemies like the Honkai or Shenzou warriors but her current enemies was something else completely. She was fighting a silent assassin who had the most advanced equipment of his civilization, she knew that he had more experience than her and fought scarier enemies but this didn't help her to feel any better. The fact that Kallen saw his memories didn't help either since he probably saw hers...

She tried to pull herself up but it was to no avail. The bolt had struck her nerves but that wasn't the major problem. Due to the strength of the impact, the arrow has managed to tear through her flesh and leave. Kallen hadn't realized how bad her situation was, especially due to the adrenaline that made her forget about pain, the grass around her was slowly turning red as blood kept pouring out of her wound.

Finally, the realization of her conditions made her extremely frustrated, she tightened her grip on her guns and raised them towards the tree lines, her breath became heavier and her skin sweaty and pale though the last one could probably be a consequence of her bleeding.

The white-haired honkai fighter scanned the trees for anything resembling a human figure, she wanted to land at least one hit on the bastard before going down...That thought caused a chill to run down her spine. She was sure that Prophet could kill her at any moment, there was no cover around her nor there was a way for her to get away due to her leg, and yet nothing was happening.

Was she was going to be defeated like this? Just like when she fought the immortal? Without even lending a single hit?

Kallen had no problem with dying again, her problem was dying without accomplishing anything, if she dies right now Theresa will have to fight Alex and Prophet and she'll lose and probably die...

She cursed her breath as she felt so powerless in front of the invisible warrior...she closed her eyes for a few seconds before re-opening again and tightening her grip on her handguns before opening fire against the shot down chopper's fuel tank causing it to explode and ignited the vegetation.

The fire quickly spread around the wreckage and then to the trees where Prophet was. Kallen reloaded her guns and then pointed them to the now on fire tree line hoping to see Prophet silhouette but instead, she found someone else that caused her heart to stop...

Meanwhile...

Theresa lifted up the oath of Judah as Alex came down from the sky swinging his massive biological sword. The relic took the hit but the force of the attack was strong enough to send the small valkyrie flying and crashing against a tree. Theresa quickly got up and threw her javelin at him aiming for the head but to her horror, the thing simply bounced off Alex's armor. She quickly summoned her chains and wrapped them around her opponent hoping to hold him down.

"Oh? That was a very poor choice" He said before turning his arms into hammerfists and pulling the chain with all of his strength.

Theresa widened her eyes and was about to drop the chain from her hand but it was too late. A sickening crack ringed inside her ears before an immeasurable amount of pain filled her being, the chain had broken her arm and now she was flying towards Alex.

The bioterrorist smirked as Theresa flew towards him before he rammed his Hammerfest in her belly. Theresa almost lifeless body fell to the ground with a thud, blood was pouring out of her mouth as tears of pain fell from her eyes. Most of her bones were completely broken if not gone, even breathing was causing her pain, soon her remaining organs will give in.

"Oh? Valkyries sure are though" Alex said as he turned his right arm into a blade again and removed the armor "Back in my day, a soldier would just explode to a hit like that one" he added as he placed the tip of the blade on her neck "well, not that I was taking you seriously "

Theresa couldn't reply but could hear him very well, she wanted to get up and fight but everything hurt...but there was something she could do...

"Ju...da...h" she whispered as the massive cross stabbed itself on the ground and started launching javelins towards Alex.

The attack seemed to be successful as all of the javelins stapped themselves inside their target.

Alex looked at the spears inside his body and chuckled "I'm sorry for making fun of you" he said as his tendrils removed the javelins.

Theresa looked at him as sadness filled her being, she lost...no she never stood a chance against him and now she was going to die in a very painful fashion while also losing her sister forever...

Unknown to her, a stigma appeared behind her neck and cherry blossom's petals appeared out nowhere. A giant fox bit Mercer and threw him away while a girl with pink hair with fox ears in a Miko dress gently lift Theresa up and took her to a safer location.

The girls caressed her cheek with a pained expression while looking at Theresa's body, a tear fell down her eyes. That was the last thing Theresa saw before blacking out.

Sakura sighed, her eyes darted around analyzing the ambient near her, she could feel the ground shaking because of the battle between the 12th Herrscher who had kept her company for a very long time and the being called Alex Merce. Her hears perked up when the sounds of gunshots filled the air soon followed by an explosion. She made sure that Theresa was well hidden before rushing towards the source of the gunshots, as she got near the source of the noises the temperature got higher and fire started spreading around her she widened her eyes, her heartbeat stopped when her gaze meet Kallen's.

Time had stopped for the two of them but it didn't last long as Sakura's ears perked up something else, she blurred in front of Kallen and swung her sword only to deflect one incoming arrow before looking at the attacker. Prophet was standing a few hundred meters away from them with his bow pointed at the two, the vegetation around him was burning thanks to Kallen's actions.

Sakura placed her hand on the hilt of her katana and blurred behind him. To the untrained eye, she seemingly just teleported behind him but in reality, she already attacked him. The fox girl quickly dodged as Prophet started throwing punches at her. Sakura knew that her attack was blocked, she knew it when her katana with Prophet's skin since she felt like hitting a brick wall.

The fox girls parried, blocked, dodged the man's punches, and each time counterattacked with a series of quick swings of her sword or punches and kicks. Finally, after a few minutes of fighting Sakura felt like Prophet's skin softened to the point where cutting him was now possible.

The pink-haired girl placed a kick on Prophet's chest sending him stumbling backward and finally performed a vertical swing aiming for the head...Unfortunately, Prophet was able to predict such move and grabbed Sakura's hands with his and simply started crushing them with his strength.

Sakura at first tried to contain the pain but simply couldn't, she tried to escape the soldier's grip but it was useless.