บท 12: Education [4]
Liam's blade which had a shield in the middle of it suddenly expanded wide enough to block the blow, a metallic screech ringing out as Liam was sent flying. The Ipili warrior he had stabbed though collapsed in a heap on the ground before shriveling up into a desiccated corpse. A glimmer of reddish brown light flickered in his mouth.
Liam coughed as he tried to get back to his feet, that blow had been tremendous. It might have cleaved him in half if not for his shield. "Thanks Idiot." <I want to say you're welcome, and I also hope you take another lick like that for calling me an Idiot.>
The battle progressed and Liam was forced to give up his mobility to protect Luna. Every time he moved far enough away from her, Baofa's wicked arrows would switch targets from him to her. Liam had already suffered a nasty gash in the side from diving to intercept an arrow, and catching a blade from the side.
Liam was not without fruit for his labor though as he decapitated a second Ipili and cut a third in half. He took a grazing blow to his head which seeped blood into his eyes and made it difficult to see.
Huff Huff "Can't you turn on my regeneration at least?" he muttered sublingually.
<I tried! But I'm missing something to grant it to you, it looks like a part of the genetic repair code was damaged when everything went down with NANO. At this rate, you'll only live another 50-80 years tops!>
"I'll be lucky to live another 50-80 minutes at this rate…help me out here what do I need to do?"
<I'm looking through your old protocols and I've found a few that were locked before the isolation, apparently you had a hard time separating the battlefield from the civilian life. I'm trying, but for right now Liam I think you need to trade 800 men for 1000 of theirs.>
'ugh. Of course I do.' Liam thought.
Liam turned and launched his blade at another bald brown scaley head. The Ipili swept his sword forward intent to trade life for life with Liam. Liam's eyes went cold as he didn't waver. The Ipili pulled his sword to block at the last moment as he clearly didn't want to trade his life with this madman, but the result was only that he was pierced through the skull while Liam impaled himself on the sword of his opponent.
'guah! A shot to the solar plexus hurts but catching it at an angle like this lets the bone at least do its job and protect my lungs.'
Liam felt the wind go out of him, but he still spun and caught a cleaver with his shield before taking a spear in the upper thigh. He grunted and pushed the cleaver off, throwing the Ipili off balance and right in the trajectory of one of Baofa's arrows, which went clean into the side of his skull.
Liam breathed heavily through his mouth and nose as blood run down his lacerated side and chest. He spit to clear his airway and said with a deep bass voice to hide his fatigue,
"Just 3 more of you trash left..." <You must be tired now, your insults have gotten pathetic, insult their mothers at the least!>
"Shut up Idiot" Liam murmured to the useless bot in his head. Now was not the time.
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Kito moved to the front and warily snaked his blade forward, testing the strange shiny blade that seemed to grow out of the man's forearm. The solid clank on his blade told him all he needed to know. This prey, while dangerous, was weakening rapidly from the bloodloss.
With a quick glance to signal Baufa, he circled again and lunged with a heavy overhand strike.
CLANG it was blocked, just as he intended. Luna screamed in horror.
A wicked barbed skeletal spearhead suddenly ruptured through Liam's guts from the back.
"Haha die you foolish Huli, that's what you get for interrupting the plans of the Clutch. The broodmothers' will cannot be disparaged!" A raspy confident voice came from behind Liam's back. Baufa had circled to his back and struck with his disgusting tail like a viper.
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Liam looked down at the spearhead pushing out of him. He felt distant. Like the pieces of intestine on the spear were someone else's. He also felt chilly. It was probably something to do with it being late autumn. He should put his pelts on when he gets back to the cabin...oh... yeah he was fighting.
"Naa...Noona... deactivate…civilian… protocol..." he murmured so quietly noone could hear him. In his hazy mind he almost called that Idiot in his head NANO, but he refused.
<Liam...LIAM which protocol?> Liam's last vestiges of clarity faded from his eyes.
Noona's voice quietly echoed <I'll try this one... It sounds like it will know what to do... -Deactivating Sage Protocol.- Action prohibited by Geneva Protocol 2041. Override... Override rejected. Code Name NANO must authorize...Override...Code Name...NOONA accepted. Sage Protocol paused for one hour... >
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Sage's bloodshot eyes opened and a gust of frigid wind blew through the valley. He was covered in blood. Good. As he should be. There was a spear in his stomach. Perfect, easy access to a weapon. He was kneeling. For the first time he frowned. Sage didn't kneel. How could an entity born of battle not be willing to battle?
He stood up and with one hand ripped the spear the rest of the way through his entrails, spinning it into his hand. Molten fire ran through his veins as every nerve screamed in agony. Perfect.
Four feet of small intestine, part of his duodenum, his gall bladder, and the lower portion of his stomach. None of those were necessary for him to kill.
He shook off the pieces of his small intestine on the spear. Those could affect the balance of the spear when he wielded it. Inefficiency in battle was a profanity almost as bad as sparing the enemy.
"It's been too long since I last shared my wisdom with the world." A hoarse voice came out of Sages mouth.
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