Mikael crawled free from the confines of the crashed car, injured, several bones broken, internal bleeding but still alive, his use of hardening at the last moment had saved him from even worse injuries.
Pops had been thrown somewhere off when the two crashed, he was not in the now totaled car. Mikael stood slowly while making used of multiple healing substances, stuffing them in his mouth. Bone mending powder, stamin tablets, healing potions.
Quick and efficient, he did not have the time to allow his natural healing to take place.
Creak
The car that had slammed into them opened and out came a large figure. This was in fact someone Mikael had seen before. Bloodied apron, dirty large boots and a bloodied hockey mask that fully covered the face of the person.
He was also large and tall. With somewhat unnatural mass of muscles. The winner of the blood bath that had happened at the Security trust of Los Angeles and one of the people who had caused Mikael to get screwed over by participating in that blood bath. He used identification on the figure.
[Code Name: [Carnifex]]
That was the end of the information Mikael was able to get, nothing more than a name. This was something he learnt some Dreamers did, hiding their information from the normal Analysis function. Only the people with more specialized forms of identification or items targeting identification would be able to see through such a disguise.
But despite that Mikael was sure of the fact of this person's strength, it was like a force radiating from him. And there was also that smell, like a baleful smell of death and rot that came from the figures body. There was also this stench of blood, thick and extremely revolting.
This person had truly killed multiple people. Enough that Mikael senses were immediately alerted.
"You smell horrible." Mikael joked lightly while stretching casually Infront of the man. He felt his body's healing kick in as well as the multiple healing items he had ingested. He reinforced his bones with Hardening. That would hold up for a while. His comment looked to attract the attention of the man and he proceeded to ask.
"Smell, these are my best clothes. How could I smell?" [Carnifex] was truly confused. Despite his getup he was truly a person who valued cleanliness. That was his motto in his line of work. A perfect cut could only be achieved in such conditions.
"You came all this way to interfere in my mission. What do you want?" Mikael did not have time to waste. The man interference had done nothing more than waste his time, allowing other hordes of Terminators to converge on his location.
He was in no mood to test if he could survive waves of up to 10 Terminators. He was also buying time for himself, allowing his injuries to heal quickly for the fight he was aware would happen. An instinct told him these [Carnifex] were extremely dangerous.
"That M134 that Terminator used earlier, it belonged to one of my Teammate. I'm guessing you're the one that killed them." [Carnifex] spoke calmly, his voice neither rising nor showing any emotion at all.
"So what, you're here to get revenge." Mikael was already aware that was not so. Simply by using his Empathy ability, he could see that the man felt nothing of the sort. In fact, Mikael was sure there was a strange sort of joy within the man.
"No not at all. How could I want revenge for the gift you have given them, for releasing them of their suffering! What I want is something you have, two things." The man spoke with strange calmness, as if everything was as it should be.
But Mikael gleamed the hidden madness, the spike in his emotion as he spoke of this release he had given to his teammates.
"You also have something I want, you don't see me asking for it." Mikael took out his Claymore, testing its weight on his hand and swinging it casually.
"The Arc reactor, you must have gotten after you killed my team. I want it…" The man did not give an answer to his own statement, Mikael did not even expect one in the first place. It was simple.
In a situation where they were maybe of equal strength, perhaps [Carnifex] would have considered negotiating an exchange for both items they wanted. But [Carnifex] was stronger.
That was something he was very sure of. Why would the strong negotiate with the weak. And what was this item this Dreamer was talking about.
"That item you got from the security Trust why don't you give it to me, and I'll maybe let you go." Mikael spoke with provocation in his voice, his smile now cocky and wide. He could at least confirm now this man was part of the infiltration team.
One of the people who was not supposed to be present within this world. What he was most curious about was how they had even done such in the first place.
"The second thing I want, you should know right?" [Carnifex] spoke with an edge in his voice now. And Mikael could sense it. How his emotions spiked. Like he was enjoying the back and forth.
"Oh, and what's that?" Mikael said casually while scanning the surroundings. Where exactly had Pops gone of too. The more he talked to [Carnifex] the more he felt a strange oddness in the air.
"What a surprise it was. At first, we thought we were being sent to a normal newbie's first mission. Business as normal. But to my shock on arriving, we found other Dreamers already present. So, I had to investigate what was wrong, what exactly was happening. "[Carnifex] spoke this time the edge of excitement was rising in his voice. This was all so surreal to him.
"My next surprise soon came soon after. To learn that my team had been killed so easily. So quickly on the mission that brough as here. I knew immediately this was where the problem came from!"
"You know, for an Infiltrator mission such as my own. It in a way Hijacks the mission of the newbie who's going through that mission. Adding all those clues. Hello there Irregular…" [Carnifex] waved his arm this time, he was smiling, but Mikael would never know that.
But what he could see was how the man's hand started twitching violently.
[Carnifex] was truly overjoyed. It was not every day you would meet such an anomaly. And in an infiltrator mission no less.
Despite his own joy, despite the excitement that went down his spine as he though which perfect cut such a person in front of him would produce, to [Carnifex] the mission that had made him come to this world was more important. It was a matter of life or death to him.
"Sarah Connor. You must have saved her. Give her to me…" He spoke calmly, returning.
"And what do you want to do with Sarah Connor?" Mikael pointed his sword at the man. And his senses once again caught how his emotions spiked again, his voice again with that edge of madness.
"Off course she will become an offering of our great god! She has been chosen and has acquired a great purpose. A purpose greater than herself! So, give her to me!" [Carnifex]'s voice boomed this time. His tone extremely passionate. Was there anything greater than these. Of the countless possible ones to be chosen and it had been her. Wasn't this faith!?Wasn't this destiny?
"Yeah no. That's not going to happen." Mikael said and his other hand he took out his pistol and immediately shot at the man. A storm of bullets being released, no stopping, no reloading. But he saw how the bullets did nothing.
They impacted the man's large white apron and as if they were duds, they landed on the ground harmlessly.
"That's unfortunate. But if it must be so, there are other ways of getting information. Valar Morghulis."
The man suddenly appeared in Mikael vision, he was gone from the distance he originally stood. He appeared once more, this time in a burst of wind, right Infront of Mikael. [Carnifex] had his arm clenched, his superior speed bringing him instantly in front of the newbie.
His arm was clenched ready to knock the man down, rough him up a little before he could get his answers. He was already smiling, seeing how the newbie was yet to react, his win was guaranteed.
But he suddenly raised his arm, blocking a dark shadow that was quickly approaching his body.
Thwack!
[Carnifex] raised his arm a leg crushing against him. Before his own attack could land, the newbie had reacted faster than he expected. And even more surprising to him, he felt the weight behind the attack.
Not enough to injure but enough that he had to take multiple steps back. He was even more shocked that his arms slightly buzzed.
"You didn't think such a half ass attack was going to work, right?" Mikael provoked the man with a large infuriating smile. And by his sense, it had worked. The man emotions were showing hints of anger.
[Water Stream Technique: Micro tremor step]
This time before the man could respond, Mikael charged also appears instantly near [Carnifex]. He swung his claymore in a wide arc, forcing [carnifex] to doge backwards but instead of normally retreating, [Carnifex] only plants his leg and attacks again, his arm knocking the air as it approaches the body of Mikael, now exposed.
Mikael seeing these changes his sword slash direction slightly. Instead of pulling back, he adds more force to the slash, completely turning the sword with him and changing it from a wide slash to an overhead downward slash.
The force of his turn accelerates the swords movement and in what would have been a disadvantageous situation, Mikael's swords meet the incoming hand in a direct clash.
THANG!
The expected spilling of blood did not happen, in fact, when the two objects collided, both the blade and the hand, it was like to hard metals clashing against each other, the only thing missing to make it even more exaggerating was the present of sparks.
They both disengage instead of retreating, and they attack once again, this time [Carnifex] does a wide sweep, his leg like large mass of wood wanting to crash bones.
Mikael steps forward, instead of retreating, he times the perfect moment when the leg is about to hit him and in an act of agility, he jumps perfectly landing on the leg. At the same moment, he slashes again at [carnifex] a slash headed right to his head.
[Carnifex] raises his arm casually just before the attack could land, the sword meets his arm and does nothing, only moving his clothes.
"Tch." Mikael jumps backwards jumping of from the leg just before [Carnifex] could knock him off.
"How…" [Carnifex] asked confused. How exactly was this newbie reacting to his attacks. How was he even attacking back. If it wasn't for his own protective items and the fact that the newbie had weaker items, he was sure that he would be the first one bleeding.
How was that possible. His anger grew, but at the same time his curiosity did so too.
"…you have a lot of secrets, I'll make sure to figure each one after you tell me where Sarah Connor is." [carnifex] says this time his voice calm once more. He takes out an item from his storage a machete. Its blade was tinged red, and somehow it looked rusty.
Most attracting thing about this weapon was the dangerous air around it. Like walking death.
Mikael was paying attention, and the blade immediately caught his instinct. His body tensed in preparation, ready for the next clash.
Suddenly before his eyes, the man disappeared, not through speed, he would have reacted to that, he just simply vanished. Like he was an imagination Mikael had conjured up. Suddenly a sense of danger appeared from behind him.
An exclipsable tell that something was about to attack. Mikael sensed the sudden large mass, the shift in the air, the intensity in the smell and without hesitation he turned.
His body had coiled instantly like a snake, winding muscles that accelerated this turning movement. The blade in his arms slashed equally forward at the mass that had appeared behind him directly for the kill.
But before his eyes, the presence he had sensed, the body he knew was there, to his surprise his blade passed uninterrupted, cutting nothing but air.
But it happened again, in that same instance that his attack had failed, the danger appeared again once more behind him and this time he was unprepared, a shot of pain runs down his back, the slash cutting easily through the hardening on his back, the attack dug deep, drawing blood and almost slashing through his spine but Mikael moved before that could happen.
[Water stream technique: Micro tremor step]
He jumps away, his leg muscles coiled pushing him instantly at a distance. He notices that [Carnifex] does not pursue. But his attention remains on the wound on his back. Mikael is quick to notice its strangeness, like a poison was trying to enter his system.
He notices a spike in pain before it disappears leaving nothing behind. His own oddity to the situation is soon explained by the system.
[Notice: Dreamer has been affected by Necrosis effect]
[Notice: Innate Ability-Supreme body control has taken effect]
[Notice: Innate ability-supreme body control has greater precedence]
[Notice: Necrosis effect has been dispelled]
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