After the enemies were captured, the cadets then moved to clean up the last two hidden beside the access doors.Whether by fortune or not, no reinforcements arrived to fight the cadets, and Arran’s team was able to secure the access doors easily. The two enemies hidden there had not put up much resistance and since they didn’t need any more captives, Arran’s team killed them both.Clyde had also finished taking care of the five that had put up the most resistance. Their bodies lay on the cold metal floor with holes punctured all over their bodies. No blood flowed from the wounds, as they had been cauterized up by the heat of the laser shots.Seeing as they were done, Arran gave the order to clear the area.“Alright everybody, sweep the area and search for anything that may be of value.”Arran left his spot at the back and went forward to meet his teammates. Along the way, he checked up on the situation of the other teams in the hangar.The hangar had suddenly gotten quieter and the ot
“Alright everybody, gather up.”Some time had passed, and the cadets were once more ready to move. The team leader, whose name is Tim, finally called everybody to gather together.All the cadets rushed forward and surrounded Tim in the middle. He was fiddling with a hologram that showed a map of the cruiser's interior. Tim had gotten it after using the access codes the mercenary leader had given them.“Alright everybody, let’s make this short. According to the map, we are currently in the south board hangar of the cruiser. This is a small hangar that is used to hold the mercenary's ships. There are several other hangars scattered around the ship’s sides. Five in total, although the map only shows four, so I presume there is a secret hangar that the criminal heads would use in case they needed to escape.”“But dealing with the heads is not our mission. Our mission is to clear the ship's passageways and open a clear path for our boy's retreat. In that case, here’s what we’re going to do
As soon as the cadets reached the junction, they were met with fierce resistance. The mercenaries had set up a line of fire to ambush the cadets. With their upgraded weapons, they became much more of a threat to the cadets than before. But it was still not a problem to deal with them.In one swift wave of attacks from the cadets, the attacks of the mercenaries were dismantled by the cadet's offensive and their ambush was effectively thwarted.Facing four units and eighty cadets, the hundred-plus enemy mercenaries were no match for the immense firepower of the cadets' superior equipment. Even though they had upgraded their weapons and armor, those general weapons could still not compare to the military-grade blasters and armored suits that were developed by the aeth army and issued to all their soldiers.The strong defense of the mercenary's armor seemed like cardboard, as it completely crumbled under the fierce firepower of the blaster.In a single minute, all the enemies were defeate
The enemy cruiser was five kilometers long. Counting the basement level, there were four levels in the cruiser; each level was 200 meters high. Just going from one end to another would take close to an hour for a normal person to run from one end of the ship to another.For Arran, it would only take five minutes tops to run back and forth once. It was only for the sake of caution that they slowed down their pace to a crawl. But even then, it wouldn’t take them thirty minutes to scour the entire ship once. Such was the power that surpassed mortals.Arran led his unit to the first level in a minute, and they started their sweep. The forty of them moved swiftly and in order, each of them displaying a calm attitude devoid of nervousness or anxiety.With Arran’s perception, it was easy to spot enemies from far away and none could hope to escape from his senses. When one enemy was spotted, one would be gunned down without mercy. The cadets took no prisoners and left nine standing.Like an e
Arran’s unit moved through the second floor and they found more and more traces of a massacre where the first and second teams had passed through. More broken bodies and blooded limbs were scattered everywhere along the corridors and the gruesomeness of the scene caused the cadets to fall silent in shock.“Look at all this. Are you sure they need our help to clear the way for their retreat? From all this, I don’t think we can do anything for them at all.” One cadet whispered.“Don’t say it like that,” Arran said.“It’s obvious that the first and second teams are in a hurry to make up for the time they lost moving from the southwest hangar to here. That is why they didn’t save up on any ammunition at all and blasted their weapons at full power.”“They probably went through the cruiser in a straight line and took fewer detours after getting a map of the ship. That means there are still a lot of places they haven’t cleared yet. In this situation, even if they could complete the mission,
Arran’s unit stopped at the access doors to the third level, but what was in front of them was not the electronically sliding doors but a pile of rubble. Burnt Metal sheets splayed all around the ground, twisted and deformed into several grotesque shapes like something had taken a bite out of the entrance, and chewed it up before spitting it all out in one go.The cadets were stunned by what they saw. The level of destruction here was much more than what they had seen elsewhere. Not even the hangar had been this messed up when it had been bombed from the outside.“What could have done this?” A cadet asked.Nobody could answer that question because they also didn’t know.Arran had been investigating the cause of the damage. With his perception, he was able to notice small pieces of irregular metal that did not belong with the other kinds of metals that were used to create the access doors and metal walls of the cruiser.Because of his electromagnetic special ability, Arran was very sen
Arran and his unit stopped in front of a large chamber. Like the previous areas in the third level, this place had been divided into different sections and the access door to it had been blown up by the first and second teams using their battery cells.But all of this was not surprising...What really surprised the cadets was what was on the other side of the section.The section opened up to a large chamber that was one hundred meters in diameter. At the end of the chamber was reinforced glass that showed the outside of space, but in the middle of the chamber was a small space that was covered in glass all around.The members of the first and second teams were actually trapped inside this glass space, fighting for their lives. Trapped inside with them were big fleshy tentacled monsters that attacked the cadets constantly.Arran and his other cadets watched wide-eyed in surprise at what was in front of them. They had not expected this at all.Although Arran had seen the scene inside t
"You guys, quick, help us get out of here.”The cadets in teams 1 and 2, upon seeing Arran’s unit, urged them to help them escape their cage.The battle inside was raging fiercely and the cadets could pull themselves away long enough to talk to Arran and the others cause they were desperately fighting for their lives.Arran didn’t do anything immediately. He first o served everything in front of him.With Arran’s senses, not many things could hide from perception and he was able to get detailed structures of most things like metal.Although it wasn’t easy to see the detailed structure of glass like he could with metal, Arran could still judge based on what he perceived on the surface.The glass that trapped the first and second teams had a similar structure to the same reinforced glass used on the windows of the spaceships. It was thick and with many layers beneath the surface. On an atomic level, each layer was made up of tiny prismatic molecular structures that were bonded very tigh