Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

The crowd cheered.

The end of the fight also snapped the Authority Officers out of their fascination. The lead officer pulled out a set of restraints.

"If you resist we will use force." He nodded and three officers backed up and headed for the middle section.

"If you think I'm going to let you touch one of my students…" Gesai's fists started burning and icing over again.

He was fast, but not faster than Gesai. And instead of how Rix and Astrid fought with mainly dodging, Gesai fought head-on.

And dirty.

There were very few places on a Grim that weren't covered in their boney exoskeleton. Their eyes and in between their legs.

He doubled over as she moved out of the way so she could focus on the other seven. Two of them didn't have CBs, which meant they were our targets, but that left five for Gesai to take on and three of them were cautiously approaching her, while their leader wheezed on the glass ceiling.

Gesai lashed out at the one closest to her. He was able to block her, but when she feigned a groin hit, he crossed his legs and dropped his hands. She hit him twice and laid him out.

Before she could turn around, the other two were on her.

She wasn't fast enough to stop a restraint from being slapped on her left arm, just below her shoulder. Gesai dropped onto the floor like she was dead weight, pulling the Grim behind her on the left on top of her. Except, she also tucked her legs.

His face hit the soles of her boots and she kicked him off of her, sending him almost twenty feet away. The glass cracked just a little where he landed, but not all the way through.

That left one more who decided that non-lethal force was only going to earn him a beating. The third Grim extended his fin-blades and lashed out at the woman on her back.

The two Grim that had CBs that hadn't joined the fight ran over to their wheezing boss to help him up. The four of us rotated away from them, which brought us closer to the two Grim without CBs. I thought about attacking them, but for now, they seemed content to not join the fight and I knew that if we started fighting, Gesai would get distracted by trying to keep an eye on us. And we needed her focused.

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Gesai was back on feet and so was the one that she'd kicked away. She was holding out, but she was losing. Unless she was able to isolate them and take one down like she had the first two, she wasn't going to win.

The two that were fighting her realized it too, which had them fighting a lot more cautiously. It also emboldened the two without CBs to head towards us.

"Surrender and allow yourselves to be…"

I didn't let him finish. I knew that my skills wouldn't work because of the dampener, but I was able to clear the distance in a second, and I knew Oz and Fray were right behind me, speeding towards the other one. I also knew that since Gesai was able to use her skills, the suppressor only worked as high as Tier Three. The owners must have assumed that their bouncers could take care of any higher Tiered threats and save the money and energy by not getting a stronger generator.

It felt like I was punching a brick wall, but I still knocked him back. He dropped the restraint that he'd been holding as he extended his fin-blades.

"I'm going to enjoy this…" The Grim swung at me.

It wasn't enough to just dodge their fist. I also had to dodge the blade and the swipe as they pulled their arm back. There wasn't really a good place to grab him, and he knew it.

Except he wasn't ready for Ether.

The ivory woman crashed into him, wrapping her arms around his left and taking him to the ground.

"Restraint!" Ether struggled to hang on as her white blood began to drip down his arm.

I scooped up the restraint he'd dropped and grabbed his other hand. The sharp edge cut me once, adding a small black streak in the palm of my hand. Once I had the restraint on, we were able to roll him over and restrain the other arm. Oz and Fray were able to finish restraining the one they'd been fighting just before I finished with ours.

"Are you okay?" I nodded at Ether's torn sleeves. Oz had a few white scratches, and Fray had some red ones, but Ether's were easily the worst of all of our wounds, even if they were combined.

"I'll be fine." Ether turned to Gesai and gasped.

The Grim leader had regained his composure and had joined the fight. Gesai was still on her feet, but she had been beaten up pretty badly.

The leader smiled as more Authority poured into the room. Satisfied that he'd won, he paused and pointed at us. "I think it's time for you to watch what we do to all who resist us."

"No!" Gesai tried to move, but the other two were in front of her, and the two lower-level ones started coming towards us.

A deep voice commanded everyone's attention, freezing the Grim in place.

"I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH."