[X] Plan Enjou
Your very first act of rebellion saw you commanding terrorists into fighting back and winning against the world's strongest superpower. The power of the world's genesis flows into your veins and those of many of your associates.
"Wise advice." You raise a hand, pointing with a finger at the approaching ghosts. "In that case I-"
Two blurs shoot past you. Two blurs that turn out be Akio and Akito as they slam into the horde like an armored truck running into a mob of civilians.
That is, body parts and assorted gore start filling the air.
Your finger drops. "-Was going to suggest a plan, but it's a moot point at this point."
"I'm sorry!" Leila quickly bows to you before marching towards Akito, reprimanding him even as she crushes a ghost's head without even looking.
"If it can help, I am still willing to listen to your idea Zero." Nadir pats your shoulder in a friendly matter.
Looking around, and seeing the others display the same interest, you decide this is salvageable. "Listen well. Right now the best choice is to maintain a box formation. Melee fighters will deal with small groups of hungry ghosts and other low level threats, staying in range of the main group in case they need to retreat and fire support is needed, and will being backed up by two Anuhles each to prevent them from being overwhelmed and look out for ambushes. They will rotate in this duty, always keeping one of them close to the main group in case of trouble. Avoid firing any loud weapons if you can. Peer Yelena," You address her. "you will have direct command of your own group, but I advise you to follow the same strategy."
"It's a good strategy." She acknowledges with a small smile before starting to give orders to her followers.
You reply with a nod before turning to the others. "Peer Milly, Peer Kaguya I would like you to stay in the center of the group. Peer Milly can use very effective long-ranged attacks, and they will be needed against any particularly deadly foe."
"If that's the case I can do the same." Kaguya replies with a smile. Looking around she spots a lone ghost advancing on them and swipes her hand in a dismissing gesture. At that moment a violent burst of silver sand erupts from behind it, flinging it away like a ragdoll before it lands with a sickening crunch. It doesn't get up.
"Impressive. Then Peer Milly and Peer Kaguya will be our long-ranged hitters. One last thing then." You glance at the remaining Anuhles. "Form three groups of two each. I want you to be on scout duty and to report immediately any finding. Jikhs, helps one of the groups." The Chernobaalim nods sharply. "Finally, one group will scout behind in case anything try following us. Everything clear? Good, let's begin."
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As the minutes pass one thing quickly becomes evident: that for Exalts it is almost trivially easy to dispatch ghosts. The examples are many, and provide you a good chance to see how your peers fight.
Akio is a literal juggernaut, forgoing all pretense of dodging in favors of just hitting harder his opponents as they overextend themselves. Which is something he can spam, since very rarely the ghosts' attacks inflict any form of relevant damage. Plenty of clothes damage and cuts, but no real injuries.
Akito is equally ferocious in his assault, but where Akio is a wall the blue-haired youth is a whirlwind of destruction, literally untouchable as he moves around with graceful but ruthless movements that kill enemies before they can even get closer. After the initial burst Leila has managed to impart him some measure of discipline and now he follows (some) orders, while she acts as a sub-commander in your own group and dispatch ghosts with martial arts.
Yelena is commanding her own troops, who display the kind of confidence that is only born from complete trust in one's own leader, while she uses the same kind of sand attacks as Kaguya.
Perhaps the greatest surprise is that Nadir and you...work surprisingly well together. It is evident the Scourge still lacks complete mastery of his sword, but with him taking the front and you covering his back with your Hellcaster any opposition is swiftly deal with.
With the morale high and all sides covered your group proceeds deeper inside the ghetto, encountering only Hungry Ghosts.
-TATATATATATATATA!!!!
At least, until the sound of automatic rifles reach your ears. Almost immediately the group of Anuhles Jikhs joined comes out from behind a near corner, running towards you. "Peer Zero!" The Chernobaalim growls. "Britannian War Ghosts!"
'War Ghosts?'
"The Ghosts of soldiers that die on the battlefield. Unlike the Hungry Ghosts, they retain their sanity."
"Behind cover!" You bellow. Your group barely manage to slip into two and retreat inside two buildings at either side of the road that three teams of ghosts wearing Britannian armors appear and start firing. You and those with a firearm shoot back, but the Britannians move like professionals and take cover, creating a stalemate.
"What happened?" You demand while reloading.
"The strangest thing Boss." Ghitore, one of the Anuhles, start. "We were scouting ahead like ordered when we found a literal camp. Those Britannian ghosts were working on it, setting things up and moving around loads of weapons and whatnot."
Ghosts setting up a military camp? Uhm, considering those are Britannian soldiers, could they be those who died during the last battle.
"A good chunk of them were listening to a human female making some kind of speech." Jikhs continues. "We were going to leave and report to you, when..." he looks at the Anuhles.
"I swear Boss, all of a sudden the female looks up and stare in our direction like she could see us, which is impossible because we were well hidden! After that she entered some kind of frenzy and started screaming orders. We flew, but somehow they managed to follow us!"
"I don't know how relevant it is, but the female was screaming 'spiders!' like it was a synonym for Adorjan." The Chernobaalim says.
Interesting. Could it be this female can somehow an Anuhle's presence? "How does that female look like?"
"Just look outside Boss, she's the only one without a helmet."
You nod. Moving very slowly you approach the corner and, when it is your men's turn to fire, take a peek. It only takes a few seconds to find your target.
By her uniform and ranks she is clearly a Knight. She is also, judging from the crazed look in her eyes, in the middle of a serious panic attack.
"Look at that!" The head of an Anuhle pops above you. "That chick looks like someone I ate."
Oh, that explains everything. Even the knight turning white as a corpse despite her dusky skin and bending down to pick up-oh fuck!
"RPG!" You bellow.
You and the others manage to reach the room's other side when the blast hits the building, causing the ceiling to develop more cracks that you are comfortable with.
You never thought that one day you would need to kill the same person twice.
But, by Malfeas' Wrath, that is exactly what you are going to do!
[] Write-in.
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I am back! Also, this is something I wanted to pull out for a long time
PS: replies to past posts incoming...
