New Eden: Live to Play, Play to Live

Chapter 1066: Split From The Group



Kary and Alex saw the result of the attack from the corner of their eyes, and their demeanour changed.

"If you want to go for the kill, don't blame me for doing the same!" Alex roared.

Kary's flames blazed in response as she unleashed a torrent of fire toward the flying vehicle.

It rolled to the side, its reactor's changing orientation to manoeuvre the vehicle adeptly, and Kary clicked her tongue disappointingly.

"I'll hit you; just you wait," she murmured.

Alex wasn't about to hit the craft again barehanded, and decided to throw magic at it to see what it would do.

Throwing wind blades at it in a barrage, he watched as the wind blades crashed on the windshield without so much as a scratch. The pilot didn't even bother with dodging his attacks, and he clenched his jaw.

"The fuck?! Their barrier has the same energy in it. But why did they dodge Kary's attack?" he growled.

But Kary already had the answer to that.

"It's the residual heat! They can disperse the mana, but not the heat from the flames it created!" she shouted, launching a barrage of flaming bolts at it.

The aircraft suddenly jerked to a stop, abandoning its chase of the black vehicle.

This also made Alex and Kary jerk to a stop as they stared at the vehicle and the person they could see inside intently.

"Seems like I'll have to be satisfied with only the two of you, Scheusale," a woman's voice echoed from the vehicle.

A hologram appeared over the craft, looking like a woman in a tight-fit leather outfit, with a trench coat that reached her knees.

Her long, curly hair swished behind her as she turned her head to look at each of them. "A spawn of hell, and an inferno embodied. I don't think my family has one of you in its collection, flame beast," she commented, staring down at Kary's blazing form.

Kary was about to respond with a snappy comment when an arrow flew under her, inching past the undercarriage of the flying vehicle.

The holographic woman inched a grin as she looked past them to the fleeing van.

"Seems like your archer has terrible aim," she commented.

But when she saw the grin on the hell spawn's face, and the stretching eyes of the flaming woman, her smirk vanished.

"What has you so hap-

The rocking of the vehicle interrupted her question, making her hologram flicker as she lost balance.

Alex instantly understood that she was inside the vehicle, and projecting herself outside with a projector.

Looking at the underside of the van, he saw slash marks, one of them slashing directly into a reactor on the passenger side enough that it was now a sputtering mess.

In the distance, Jin-Sil snapped back to her body, a smirk on her lips.

"I never miss, bitch."

She couldn't hear the words coming from the speakers, but her outstanding sight allowed her to read the lips of the woman, and she knew what she had said.

But this was the only shot she could shoot. With the vehicle no longer chasing them, and the SUV still barrelling down the highway at dangerous speeds, she was already out of range by the time she snapped back to her body from her skill.

She watched as her two friends shrunk in the distance and cursed silently.

"Coward."

Meanwhile, the two other cars with the rest of the party had already left the main road, going through forested and dirt roads.

Anything to get away from the following syndicate.

They had no way of knowing if there was more than one pursuer, since they hadn't been kept in the loop, and the drivers took their job seriously in applying the Hare Protocol. Regardless of the threats Killian or David made to their drivers to turn around, they didn't flinch at their empty words. These people were much more scared of their boss than they would ever be of their passengers.

Both men eventually gave up on trying to convince their drivers, and instead focused on their surroundings, trying to spot if they were being followed.

Since the three cars had separated, the drivers had been driving like madmen, dodging through traffic and winding roads, and they had no idea where they were anymore.

With their phones all dead from the mini EMP earlier, they had no way of checking their navigation apps and were driving blind.

Hare Protocol was to escape their tail before anything else. The next step was to find a place that sold maps and pinpoint their next rendezvous point.

Once this was done, they rendezvoused there, waiting no more than twelve hours for any stragglers, and continuing the mission without them if they didn't show up.

There was no point for them to worry now. The mission was always the priority.

Their boss had drilled into them that lesson the hard way. Losing a body or two was irrelevant, as long as the mission was achieved.

They would drive recklessly like this for hours if it meant ensuring no one was following them.

David and Killian had a thought for their friends in the lead car, whom they knew wouldn't take being chased lying down, and both sighed in exasperation, even though they were miles

apart.

The same thought crossed their minds like the same dread linked them.

"I hope Alexander doesn't cause too much of a scene...."

Unfortunately for them, fate had other plans, and Alexander was bad at lying low.

Flying over the highway, in a three-way staring contest, Alexander, Kary, and the holographic

woman were motionless in a stalemate.

Whoever attacked first would have the initiative, but would also fall on the defensive soon after. It didn't matter which one threw the first blow.

All three of them knew they were standing on equal ground.

Alex may be one of the strongest humans in history, and Kary may be burning like a sun at the moment, but they both knew the technology wielded by the third person was dangerous ton/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

them.

As for the woman in the flying van, she was cocky, yes, but not stupid. She knew very well that her two opponents could muster miracles of nature that her vehicle couldn't withstand for too

long.

"Well? Are we going to fight? Or just look at each other lovingly?" Alexander taunted.

But his words fell on deaf ears. The woman was too focused on their body language to hear his

words.

'Fuck, she ignored me. What now?'