"Where are you going?" The terrorist captain roared while smashing his blade to the ground.
Ran jumped away, noticing the damage on the bridge. The terrorist captain obviously couldn’t allow him to escape. Before he could go away, he struck the bridge once more and actually smashed it.
"!!!" Ran lost his footing, causing him to fall down together with the terrorist captain.
The other terrorists split up into two groups. The first group would suppress Jacksie while the other group would attack Ran.
Ran looked at them for a split second. His affinity was Brain and his senses were much sharper. That was why he could see where they pointed their guns, when they pulled the triggers, and the flash of the bullets.
Ran ran to the side, avoiding the bullets skillfully. However, his movement had to be stopped abruptly when two terrorists predicted his movement and shot at the place where he was about to go.
It forced Ran to jump into the air, avoiding those bullets. This was the time their captain appeared and struck down Ran.
*Bam!*
"Tsk." Ran clicked his tongue. He was simply no match against a Tier 4 human with Muscle Affinity. However, his senses were much sharper than his, so he could see what was coming. "Took them long enough."
"!!!" The captain turned around and saw two people coming toward his subordinates. "Watch out!"
His subordinates couldn’t react.
"Go!" The middle-aged man who discussed the plan with Clovis earlier shouted.
The other Tier 4 agent sped up and jumped into the air.
When the terrorists turned around to intercept them, their visions suddenly turned upside down as their heads got severed in a split second.
"Kh." The terrorist captain bit his lips and charged at them to save his comrades.
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However, he was met by their commander.
He struck the commander with the giant blade only to be blocked by a big shield.
"Fucking terrorist." The commander snorted and pushed the terrorist with his shield.
At the same time, Ran took this chance to launch a sneak attack from behind.
The terrorist captain jumped to the side, but Ran was still fast enough to hit his rear, causing it to bleed profusely.
"Kh." The terrorist captain gritted his teeth. It seemed that the situation had become much harsher than he originally expected. "Retreat!"
Surprisingly, it only took a moment for the terrorist captain to issue a retreat. Even they didn’t expect them to be this weak. They thought these terrorists would fight to the very end.
The moment he issued the retreat, the surviving terrorists took out smoke grenades and tossed them to the ground, starting to fill up the entire area with smoke.
"You’re not getting away." The commander smashed his shield onto the terrorist, but the latter actually didn’t bother with it and just hid himself within the smoke.
The terrorists were also doing the same. In fact, they began shooting in random directions as if they were hoping to hinder all these strong fighters.
The commander put his shield in front of him, blocking all the bullets. Jacksie and the Tier 4 agent blocked it with their own equipment. But if they charged inside the smoke, there was a chance that they would hit each other.
So Jacksie said, "I won’t go inside to avoid friendly fire."
The Tier 4 agent nodded his head. But before charging inside, he heard Ran shouting, "They are moving toward the hostages."
"!!!" Jacksie and the Tier 4 agent turned their heads to the side, thinking the same thing. They would probably try to kill the hostages.
Both of them rushed into the smoke, but what they didn’t expect was that the commander didn’t hesitate to enter the smoke just so that he could reach the hostage.
As expected, the moment he came out of the smoke area, he saw the back of the terrorist captain.
"You are not getting away." The commander roared.
Suddenly, the terrorist captain took out a small device and pressed its button.
*Boom!*
An explosion occurred in the area where they fought earlier.
"What? Is he trying to destroy the entire mall?" The commander panicked, but there was nothing he could do. If the terrorist captain reached the hostage area, it would turn into a massacre. All he could do was believe in his teammate and those two explorers.
He didn’t realize that the terrorists had been fighting with a bomb in their bodies. He used the commotion earlier to take out that bomb and drop it on the floor.
It was meant to distract these people, but to think that the commander would lock on to him like this.
He might be the biggest miscalculation in his plan. Nevertheless, his main plan was never to fight against the government or those explorers. It was to lure out the mule. As long as they lured out the mule and captured him, the mission would be considered a success.
Hence, his remaining job was just to retrieve his subordinates along with the mule before making their escape.
However, the moment the terrorist captain returned to the hostage area, he was greeted by a sight that he could never forget.
He could see that his plan was a success. There were two Tier 3 agents who were heavily injured. Since he had hidden three Tier 3 terrorists among them, they should be able to suppress the remaining two.
Yet, when he returned and thought about retreating together with them, he actually saw a young man standing in front of the hostages along with the remaining two Tier 3 agents as if they were planning to stop him.
As for his teammates, they had been defeated. He didn’t know how they managed to defeat his teammates, but it was clear that his plan was foiled completely.
"…" The terrorist captain sucked a cold breath.
"You’re not going to escape." The voice of the commander echoed, causing the terrorist captain to return to the smoke area and make his escape. The commander might not be his biggest miscalculation. Instead, it was Clovis. He could never predict that a Tier 1 human could defeat one of his Tier 3 subordinates and even help in defeating the other two.