There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 519

Chapter 519: Chapter 512. Cat has nine lives

Leah clasped her mouth and closed her eyes, trying to coat her body in mana in an attempt at self-defense. The other reporters were starting to scream, but the others clamped those people’s mouths with their hands.

Get down and shut your mouth.

They remembered the scout’s words. Getting down to the floor, they closed their eyes and prayed to all the Celestial Beings they knew.

Whether it was because of their prayer, or because it wasn’t their time to die, they heard a loud clanking sound from the bridge. Leah opened her eyes and peeked from the back window. Her view, however, got blocked by two sleets of steel shields with black linings and array carving.

It was then did she realized the surrounding area was no longer as dark as before. She turned to look forward, to where the humvee was hastily going toward--the blinking beacon and shining purification device.

Again, dull and sharp clanking sounds could be heard from the bridge. The defender held the shields tightly as the fragment’s tail kept striking them, while its claws were occupied by Ron’s daggers.

The scout tried hard to parry the onslaught and pushed the fragment off the bridge, but it was already hard to avoid being thrown off himself. In the first place, it wasn’t a fight that could be won with only a four-star esper who wasn’t a pure damage dealer. The small injury he got was piling up and started to hinder his movement, and his stamina got sucked with every teleport he did.

But finally, he heard the screeching sound of a stopping vehicle across the bridge. Someone was shouting at the reporters to come out of the Humvee and duck behind the steel plate protecting the purification device.

"Go back!" Ron said to the defender holding the shield. "Fortify the post!"

"Yes, Sir!"

The defender took the shield, which was a part of the slate protecting the purification device, and ran back toward the outpost. He joined the other esper stationed there, who had been sending out an emergency signal to the main base.

Helios, after ditching the vehicle, took the other slate and slammed it to the ground in front of the bridge while shouting to the outpost’s defender. "Get that one over here!"

They joined the thick steel slate into a wall separating the bridge from the outpost, and he told the outpost defender to protect the reporters, who were huddling behind the purification device.

"Sir, I can’t get through," the other esper whispered to Helios, showing his communication device.

"There’s a lot of call going to the main base right now," Helios gritted his teeth as he looked at the struggling scout on the bridge. "Keep trying and give us supporting fire."

"Understood," the esper nodded and resend the emergency signal before taking out his mana riffle.

Helios jumped over the ’wall’ and ran toward the bridge. He took out his own shield and threw it toward the fragment, where it struck the tail that was about to sweep over Ron. The scout jumped back and landed behind Helios with bated breath; blood started to seep between his uniform.

"Have you...taken down a fragment before?" Ron asked, taking the chance to breathe while mana bullets rained down the fragment.

"Yeah, with a proper squad," Helios laughed wryly. "Though I don’t think we can expect one to come in assistance soon."

Ron chuckled and gripped his daggers harder. "Well, what can we do?" he glanced at the reporters in the back and took a deep breath. "Can we push this motherfucker to the river?"

"We can try," Helios shrugged. "It’s coming--I’ll take its attack."

Reaching out his hand, Helios called back his shield that got thrown to the side by the fragment’s tail earlier. He roused his mana and growled as his muscles bulged and he grew twice as big. Bright, golden manes sprouted from his shifting face and golden fur covered his whole growing body. Receiving the shield that was now as big as him, the shifter howled and pushed the shield against the fragment with his shoulder.

"Aimed the bullet to its face!" Ron shouted at the marksman before sinking into the shadow on the ground.

Thanks to Helios, the fragment became stationary enough for the marksman to aim better. Every time it tried to move, the werelion would push it back, away from the purified area. It had to use its clawed hands to defend its face from the hailing bullets, but it gave the chance for Ron to slash the fragment’s legs and tail, leaving gashing wounds that hindered its movement further.

Slowly, the fragment staggered as it lost its balance, and Helios growled through his gritted teeth before using all of his power to tackle the fragment over the railing. With a shrieking sound that made some reporters start praying again, the fragment toppled over and fell into the black water.