Fate Online: Shadow

Chapter 527: A Blood Lion

Clink!

"Ugggh!"

Counting his ammo to the last bullet, Monk immediately detached the magazine on his handgun and threw it towards one of the armed goons and accurately hit his head!

"I'm out!" Monk yelled, both men already cleaned up most of the guards and they're just now tens of meters away from reaching the mansion.

Benny, who was hiding behind a large collapsed tree yelled back, "Just pick up any weapons you see on the ground!"

Ratatata!

"We had already taken down a lot of them, how come there's still more coming?!

Is there a portal inside or something?!" Monk looked around him and saw an AR-14 lying on the brush a couple of meters away from him and when he went over to pick it up, he immediately saw another group of armed gun coming out of the mansion and cursed as he suddenly had the feeling like the building has some kind of a resurrection spot like those in online games!

"Hahaha, at least the machine gun sentries are already taken down! Let's go!" Benny just let out a laugh and came out of his hiding and fired back at their new enemies while slowly increasing his distance between them.

Ratatata!

"Fire all you have! Don't let them get near this place no matter what happens! Lay down your life if you have to, your families will be rewarded!"

Monk also followed suit and gave the man cover fire as they resumed their assault at the mansion with their limited time!

"Where is that bastard? Just where are you hiding this time?" Hiding behind a collapsed wall at the second floor of the mansion, a man in a black suit armed with a sniper rifle grumbled while trying to find where Genesis had gone after he had shot at him earlier and failed.

"Found you.."

Bang!

"What…happened?"

Thud!

Everything had happened so fast, the man had just taken another peek through his sniper scope when a shot rang out, and before he knew it, his body had already started tilting to the side before he completely collapsed on the floor!

Looking closely, it seems that the bullet had shot through his sniper scope and went straight to his eye and blew a huge hole in his head.

"Finally took down that persistent bastard" Genesis grumbled as he hastily got up and followed the trail down the mountain.

He had not even gotten that far when his gaze suddenly sharpened as he hit the breaks and quickly jumped back!

Swoosh!

Cling!

On the spot where he was supposed to take his next step earlier was a knife that embedded itself on the ground, which had came from the direction ahead of him.

"Who are you?" Genesis questioned, his voice full of malice and hostility.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the renowned King of Rock. Why is a famous retired rockstar such as you carrying a piece of what do the people in this place call it…a Dragunov?"

A man in a black tracksuit walked out from the treeline a few meters ahead of him while spinning a pair of karambit knives on his fingers.

"I said…who are you?"

Genesis ignored whatever the man before him was saying and instead, his gaze became darker, deeper, to the point that if looks could kill, the man standing in front of him would have died by a thousand cuts by now.

Flinch!

The supposed assassin couldn't help but flinch when he met his gaze and took a step back, but he immediately realized that such actions were an obvious sign of weakness during a confrontation between two killers.

"Tsk! I see that you still got i-"

Bang!

The assailant was mid sentence when Genesis suddenly pulled the strap of his rifle upward and the rifle slid from his back to his front and like a well oiled machine, Genesis skillfully performed such actions with ease and shot at his attacker that barely reacted in time to push himself to jump to the side!

"F*ck!"

Step! Step! Step!

Genesis wasn't done yet as the sound of rapidly moving footsteps echoed alongside the distant gunfire in the background and when his assailant finally looked up, he was just in time to see Genesis kicking the knife he threw towards him earlier and sent it back to him flying with a kick!

Clang!

Unfortunately, the bastard was prepared and blocked the incoming attack using his left arm, where the torn piece of cloth revealed a shiny glow underneath.

"Wrist guards? People still wear that?"

"Sneaky bastard"

"Says the one who tried to ambush me!"

Bang!

With a yell, Genesis tried to shoot him again, but his enemy was prepared this time as he quickly ducked down and dashed towards the direction of a huge rock near him.

Obviously, this assassin had prepared for any possible situation that might occur in case the ambush had failed!

"Did no one ever tell you that you don't bring a knife to a gunfight?" Genesis let out a chuckle.

Leaning behind the rock, his attacker just rolled his eyes and replied, "Oh shut it! Knives are an assassin's romance! Remember that the one who kills you today is I, The Blade Dancer!"

"Eh?"

Mr. Blade Dancer's spirit had just reached its peak and even came up with a grand entrance by announcing his name, but what greeted him when came out of his hiding was just empty air!

Genesis seems to have left in another direction as he probably didn't think that the kid could be any threat to them from what he had observed so far during their earlier "interactions",and from that, he left him hanging without looking back!

"Bastard, where did you go?! Where are you?! Show yourself!"

Realizing that his enemy didn't even bother to really stay and fight him, he felt like he was being looked down on and out of the growing humiliation inside him, he started yelling angrily and ran around trying to look for him in his surroundings in case he was just hiding.

"Arrgghh-"

"Hello~"

Bang!

Humiliated, angered, the man roared towards the skies, but then his boiling emotions were suddenly cut short when his eyes met someone else's crouching in one of the tree branches just several meters ahead of him!

'How…how did he get up there so fast? Damn, I didn't even finish that Unique Quest in the game' were his last thoughts before the darkness consumed him.

With a hole in his head, Blade Dancer's knees buckled as his body fell on the ground and slowly swam on his own blood.

Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!

Genesis skillfully got down from the tree and walked towards the corpse. He flipped it over and started rummaging through his things looking for something.

Clink!

Finally, after a couple of seconds, Genesis found what he was looking for. It was a thin plate similar to a dog tag, which his recently deceased "friend" had hidden inside one of his boots.

"A Silver tag, not new but also not that experienced. Is Blood Lion trying to get involved in our business? Hmmm…but they wouldn't send a recent fresh blood though, must have been a hired goon who just happens to be here today"

While walking away from the scene, Genesis inspected the silver tag with a lion's head engraving on the back, with the holder's name written at the front.

"Sigh~ this probably might have been my easiest kill in my entire career" Genesis let out a sigh as he felt a slight pity for the young man with a bright future.

"But it seems the other side is also just finishing up"

When the sound of gunfire in the distance started becoming intermittent, Genesis figured that the battle over there was probably coming to an end too and hastily continued on his way down while pocketing the silver tag in one of his pockets.