Driving A Wedge

Lucas knew that the codex thing was most probably hidden in the tower at the center. He could already see around 30 people rushing towards the tower through the main road in front of the gate.

The city didn't look destroyed or anything; it was just that there was no presence of life whatsoever.

The roads were still filled with some weird structures looking as if they came to a stop abruptly.

"Hmm, seems like Max was right. The whole species was annihilated suddenly. Weird but terrifying."

After contemplating the origins of this phenomenon for a while, he gave up and concentrated on the things at hand.

"Wait a minute. Logically speaking, this is a city, so there shouldn't be any traps laid around except for the central tower."

"The distance to the tower is approximately 4 km, so why don't I use the city's transport to reach there?"

Lucas then stopped rushing towards the tower while all the people passing by gave him a look of disdain but didn't bother fighting as reaching first was their primary goal.

Lucas ignored those bastards and looked around for something mobile and small that looked like a vehicle. After 15 minutes or so, Lucas found a wedge-shaped structure. There were many of these randomly found here and there.

"This should be it."

After closing in on the vehicle, the side panel of the wedge opened automatically. Lucas was genuinely surprised.

"Maybe it was unlocked already. Seems like lady luck is shining on me."

He then looked in and saw two empty seats. The Alis race was smaller than humans in stature, so the seats were too small for a 6-foot-tall human like Lucas.

He ripped apart the other seat to make place for his legs. He then sat in, and a 3-D map was displayed in front. Lucas, after thinking for a while, touched the central tower on it.

The screen displayed some characters,

________

$@%$#^%*&^(())*__)_U& ^%$&^

&^%*$&(*

________

(There is no Greek letters font, so had to do it with symbols.)

And the wedge started to hover,

Feooooo!

The wedge started traveling in the direction of the tower on the main road.

Lucas was foolishly smiling now, looking at the tower approaching nearer. The vehicle was very fast, at least 3-4 times the speed of the fastest guy in the group of assassins ahead.

Lucas had nothing to do, so he plugged in his earphones and chose shuffle songs on the super watch.

"...…I'm Sexy and I know it….."

The other assassins, who were now racing like maniacs, suddenly saw a blur pass them. As the road was wide enough, there were no collisions, so they all sighed with relief when the blur passed away.

But just then, the side panel of the wedge shifted, and the guy sitting inside with his earphones on threw some cylinders in the air and winked,

"Hey dumbasses, a small advice, IT'S EXPLOSIVE AND YOU BETTER KNOW IT…."

The guys were terrified after seeing the cylinders closing in as they knew these were standard government-issued bombs and immediately started moving. Only the experts brought up their defense devices as they knew it was too late to run.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!....

Near 10 simultaneous explosions happened, killing off as many as 30 assassins. One should know that the total number of assassins was near to 100, and Lucas took down almost 1/3 of them in one stroke.

Lucas knew that this plan would only work for those below peak D-rank holders as the stronger a person gets, the more one values his/her life, deploying better defenses. So he knew it wouldn't be easy to kill the experts present in the group.

The man who earlier broke the barrier was floating in the sky outside the city, giving him an eagle's view. He was currently looking at the situation below and smiled after watching the explosions, "Hmm….interesting."

Lucas, on the other hand, was shaking his head to the beat of the song,

"Cool device, this earphone….after completing this mission, I should custom create my own."

Lucas then looked at the map and prepared to get out of the wedge vehicle as the wedge was near the tower.

The wedge slowed down and finally stopped.

The side panel opened. Lucas got out, stretched his back, and started walking towards the entrance of the tower.

"30 minutes and I'm here, not a bad start."