NOVEL NEXT Chapter 202: Ceasar Redemption
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Terra - Southern Industrial Zone
Federal army corvettes and frigates that had clearly taken control of Terra's space began to penetrate the amosphere and bombard the positions of the Imperial ground forces, the chaos on the planet's surface grew by the hour, players flocked to the field to loot, kill, or simply enslave any NPC they could see, the true nature of the players often became apparent when they sensed the loot approaching
Apophis was in one of the buildings waiting to take back his mind and watch his hp and energy bar regenerate, his fight against DungEater was one of the most intense things he had ever experienced, he had seen his own weakness, Especially against Ascentionists with immaterial bodies like DungEater or Lucifer, this skill was impossible against basic opponents with biological material bodies, but he didn't think that he would be able to face immaterial bodies only composed of an agglomerate of energy so quickly.
Apophis obviously knows from experience the advantage of such bodies, especially their very advantageous defense against low energy skills, like basic physical attacks or high quantity ranged skills, like flame.
Apophis always had them in mind that one day he would meet opponents with a biology capable of matching these skills, but he didn't think that he would meet them this early in the game, let alone that they would be a threat to the players, so he urgently needed to apply the second part of this skill...
After some tens of minutes, the bar of HP and the energy of apophis was again full
it was time for him and his guild to evacuate this cursed planet before it became just a huge battlefield.
He opened his political menu and located the old Souley's warehouse where his companions were supposed to be...
He looked at the distance, and what he saw astonished him, he muttered "What!? over 1,000 killometers!?"
the fight against DungEater, had made him deviate from the zone of more than 1.000 kilometers! Fortunately that Apophis was endowed with this Demonic Wing, otherwise it would have taken him several hours of fast walking before reaching the zone or was it coquepier
he activated his skill and flew up into the sky.
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Souley Warehouse
All of the Eclipse players had their limbs bound.
Hulk yelled "You sons of bitches, let's have a one on one duel if you're that strong!"
Joker grinned slightly "Ah it's worms, still funny in reality and in Horus, you're nothing but trash..."
suddenly a voice was heard "Release hi ! Joker"
Surprised Joker turned and saw Cesar looking him straight in the eye and replied "Well, welcome back the legendary warrior Ceasar...has Edward's pet been put back in its place? "
Cesar pulled out his hammer and got into a fighting stance and replied, "I'm not going to tell you again, Joker! Release them, lift your skill immediately!
Joker, who at first just wanted to make fun of Cesar, started to realize that Cesar seemed serious, he was in a fighting stance, ready at any moment to activate the PvP mode...
Joker stopped mocking him and got serious again and said "We have orders, you idiot! Didn't Edward tell you that we have to capture them!
Cesar replied, "I don't care! We have sworn to help each other to escape this planet! And I intend to respect this word!"
Joker, also annoyed, replies: "It's one thing not to follow an order or to withdraw... but would you be willing to fight your guild's allies for strangers?"
Cesar answers: "I have already done a lot of work on my ethics for my guild, but today I will not follow the path of treason to secure my future! Understand it well Joker! So either release them or face us!"
Suddenly Zelda interrupts him and says "Cesar! Do you realize what you are saying! Do you risk exclusion and the end of your career for people you hardly know? Are you really willing to lose everything for people like them?!"
Even Cesar's subordinates, who had been protecting his body, were slightly unsettled by the situation.
Cesar shouted "So your choice!?"
Joker and the other members were preparing for the fights, after all for professional players whose job was to follow orders, the mission came before personal friendships...
suddenly a notification appeared on the server chat:
[Server Notification: The player "Apophis" has just killed the player "DungEater" and has just earned a bounty award of 60,000,000 GC. ]
The players of the SuperGuilds who saw the message would not believe it, especially since they only had a limited knowledge of DungEater's power, they only knew that he was Tier-A, that is to say, above most Ascentionists in the universe, how could such an entity be defeated by a single player?
Joker was a particularly quick thinker, he knew that the plan now was seriously compromised, Apophis who was now free of this movement knew where this teammate was and that he would come and get them...
He thought about whether he should follow the plan when his main objective had failed.
Joker knew one thing, if he eliminated the eclipse members without eliminating their leader, he would have a thorn in his side.
Joker smiled and said to Cesar, "As you wish my friend, if you really want to betray us for them then I'll let you do it... but I can't wait to see what the Renovatio leadership has in store for you."
Then Joker turned to Zelda, Mario and the other members of the assassination plan and said "We're leaving.
Zelda replied, "But what about the Joker plan?"
Joker replied, "We failed, well let's just say that the guild leaders underestimated Apophis, so we are stuck."
One by one the members started to leave the warhouse of "Souley", leaving the members of eclipse and Cesar alone inside, so start to get stronger...
Ceasar then turns to the Eclipse players and says "Get ready, the serious stuff starts now.