Defending Is The Best Way to Attack

The moment Levon's boots touched the ground, he started running as fast he could. '…This is the first time I run here, my body feels light and very agile. My speed keeps on increasing with each step! But… they're still faster than me!' The Psemas started catching up to him quickly, just right before they could position themselves triangularly. Levon changes the direction completely to the opposite and continues running.

The Psemas went after him, and another time he switches directions before the final moments of being trapped!

From the looks of It, this seems like a useless thing to do, rather it tires him more without accomplishing anything. However…

'…they're still sticking with that plan then, good!' Levon has noticed something that he can use to his advantage.

'…For the Psemas to take their positions, at least one of them has to horizontally line up with me at a certain moment of time while still being in an offensive mode, since the other two would have already taken their positions to trap me from two opposite sides on a defensive mode.

In other words, it's always the Psema from the blind angle that takes his position last. Not looking to attack me at that moment, he is completely vulnerable. And now that I'm running up and down it makes it even harder for them to anticipate my attack and switch back to their defensive stance. Even If he was able to do so before I could hit him, it will still disrupt their tactics and make it easier for me to react faster.'

Levon starts executing his plan, he kept his eyes wide open on which one will take the blind angle position. He had to rely on his guessing as well since every fraction of a second is valuable in this plan.

The moment he sort of knew which is which, he did not change his direction! On the opposite, he continued moving right towards where the Psema is supposed to take place, and simultaneously shoots him while he's still moving.

The short distance between the two assured that it's undoubtedly, a second successful hit!!

But the two others did not stand idle, they attacked him from behind! Levon turns and shoots two shots for each one of them that stopped them at their tracks. Unfortunately, that left him wide open for the third one, who gets his pay back and delivers a direct attack!!

'…Aghh Shit!! Somehow I forgot the possibility of trapping my own self by trapping them…

Will my speed decrease now that my stamina has taken significant damage? That will be troubling…' Levon thinks to himself, he continues. '…Though it can be effective, I think this plan is far too dangerous. I must come up with another one!'

Levon keeps on running as the Psemas hunted him, trying to buy time and coming up with a new strategy.

'…If I had to beat these shitheads in the safest way possible. First, I must keep them all in front of me, and second… I must be able to land multiple attacks at once. But how am I going to do so? Their reaction speed is impressive… by the time I shoot two shots surely one of them at least would have switched to their defensive stance.

How can I attack simultaneously?

How…'

Suddenly, a crazy idea came up to his mind! It was obvious how crazy it is from the wide open eyes and the little smirk on his face!

'…So again, I'll have to rely on theory through experimentation… whatever, if anything, I'm sure these Psema fights are just trainings to be able to take on real duels.

But just so I won't be caught in a foolish situation. I'll try it on the void first!'

Levon suddenly goes from running on the ground to jumping high in the white void. Because of having a run head start, his jump was much enhanced from earlier. Almost reaching 10meters high!

'Hmmm.. So they're not following me up here! They're positioning themselves around where I'm going to land. Smart aren't you? But that might just play to my side if this trick worked. If not, I'm in big trouble.'

Levon holds his gun so lightly from it's large grip with his skinny gloved fingers, then mysteriously throws it above the level of his head!!

The gun floated alone on air just like its owner, Levon closes his eyes…

'..If It could shoot whenever I willed it in my hand, I don't see why it shouldn't do so even when I'm not holding it. Though that seems so far-fetched…

Is this what Mr. Howard explained to me that time… what was the word again?

Hope!?

Well, I hope this works then.'

And lord behold, his hopes were answered…

The gun fired on its own, and Levon was actually lucky the shot didn't hit him because it was dumb trying such thing from a very close distance.

With a slight smile on his face, he grabs his gun tightly and gets ready to land back again.

The Psemas were awaiting him, but he is now awaiting them too. '… Now I still have to figure out the way I should use this to hit them all in the shortest time possible. Not only that, but to have all 3 of them on their offensive mode.

I'm sure they wouldn't let me this time though, so I have to defend them all and make my way out of their trap first!'

Just like he predicted, or in fact even before the time he landed, two Psemas timed their attacks to hit him as soon as he touches the ground, leaving him absolutely 0 chance of freeing himself!!

Levon activates his shiny orange shields from all sides and chooses not to attack yet. The pressure of their force from both sides are crushing him, barely able to withstand it, but he still waited for something…

"Not yet…Not yet….Not…yet…."

The shields begun to crack and weaken, bearing in mind that these two Psemas's attacks will cost Levon his life if they broke through! This is putting everything on the line for him.

Finally, his eyes lit up with sheer determination! As his beautiful pupils reflected the imagery of the third Psema charging towards him!!