Chapter 9 "Between life and death"

When the aid team arrived, the first thing they saw was a large mass of beasts formed behind what appeared to be a person, mysteriously to them none of the beasts tried to attack them.

According to the orders of the leader of the military group, the two platoons prepared for battle .

After picking up a radio , the support group leader called waiting for an answer.

~ Captain Fline here, I hope you are ready for battle ~ he said happy to feel that everything would improve.

~ More than prepared Sir, this is Sergeant Pierce, leader of the 2nd Rescue Specialist Squadron, if possible I need information on the situation ~

~ Of course, the most important thing you should know is that this humanoid, self-proclaimed "the great Urik", controls all beasts like his pets, and his personal strength is quite high ~

~ As strong as it is, I don't think it will survive the impact of a missile launcher, I'll start the attack shortly ~

~ Understood, I will gather my team to help in the fight ~

After cutting off the call, Pierce informed his subordinates indicating the situation, the two platoons deployed in a fan formation, looking for positions to better defend themselves.

E n the training center two armored vehicles began to load their guns, when all was said a loud explosion started the battle.

The cannonball hit the center of the beasts , the moans echoed from the many wounded beasts, some managed to get out of the explosion avoiding damage. But the only one who did not move was Urik, who received the blast head-on, but did not appear to take damage.

Pierce was amazed at how strong the opponent was, in his mind he decided to execute a plan and thought that he would only use it in the worst case scenario, preparing a small note and passing it to a soldier ~ he gives this information to the other teams, You should only act under my orders, otherwise only act under the first order ~ after the soldier left he thought "I don't think those old men are mad at using it , they are also too many beasts, with our firepower we could only control 100, in the worst case I will take responsibility "

~ It seems that these insects are not afraid of me, I think it is time to let them know the true terror ~

Raising his hand, Urik pointed to the armored vehicles ordering his beasts to destroy them, a hundred of them roared and began a race against the military, two thirds still left waiting for their master's order. The platoons fired their weapons trying to stop the advance of the beasts, while Pierce asked ~ Team 2, how is the situation? ~ a small soldier raised his radio and replied ~ We are ready, at this moment we are returning to formation ~

At the hearing this, Pierce climbed into one of the armored vehicles, directing it to another place.

Some beasts, like insects chasing the light, stopped attacking the platoons and went in pursuit of the vehicles, when Pierce noticed that they had managed to distract some beasts, he raised his radio and indicated the leader of one of his platoons, ~ the enemy fell for our decoy, take advantage of this moment and open a retreat path for Captain Fline's team ~

The second platoon continued to attack the beasts, causing heavy casualties, but they knew that the situation was not very good, every time one of these beasts turned, they were able to seriously injure their comrades with a single blow.

Meanwhile, on the lookout Fline ordered all protect the survivors while the peloton had them exit route, he was concerned because still did not act humanoid, Urik only had one are malicious laughter on his face as he fed a corpse.

~ They do well for being insects, too bad the game is over . They should never think to stay alive after the great Urik was their opponent ~

After saying that the earth began to shake , cracks appeared on the ground and several beasts came out of the ground among the second platoon, dozens of spotted scorpions raised their claws and began to attack everything in front of them .

At this moment Lanz was observing the situation from afar, several of his companions were fighting for their lives, but he could not do anything, he had been given a mission.

Taking advantage of the protection of the trees, he quickly advanced towards the humanoid's camp, although Urik detected his presence, he didn't care what he might plan .

Lanz buried several stakes in the ground, the distance between each of them was about 100 meters, although after burying the twentieth stake he was a bit tired, but he kept running to finish his mission.

The armored vehicles, which were moving away from the place, from time to time fired their cannons causing some casualties in the beasts .

~ Sir, finish mission ~ Pierce heard Lanz's voice, ~ the time has come, team 2 activate the explosives ~ I warn the others , after receiving confirmation, several explosions occurred in the place , although these did not cause the death of the beasts , destroyed the land, causing the appearance of several deep wells.

Humanoid not was afraid of what they were planning, but felt that something was wrong, ~ because they spend so much alone time to destroy the land, never understand how you think these inferior beings ~ shaking his head in denial rose in the air heading for the second platoon .

The fight of the second platoon was hard, the scorpions had injured several of the soldiers by catching them off guard. When they had lost more than half of their members, Urik appeared next to one of them taking him by the head, the soldier tried to free himself and pointed his weapon at the attacker, but to no avail when Urik's arm was split into a mouth giant swallowing half his body , the sound of jaws crushing the soldier's body echoed in the place.

The entire second platoon was amazed at the appearance of the humanoid , but they quickly took aim at its body initiating a hail of gunfire . Urik just laughed and disappeared from place appearing next to another soldier, when he was caught inside the mouth, the soldier released the safety of a grenade before dying .

L fter swallowing most of the body of the soldier, Urik catch other prey, but an explosion happened inside his arm, at a time when half of his arm was gone, leaving only a large wound in the form of a flower meat . ~ Trash, you dare to damage my great body ~ angry Urik a violet energy to repair or his missing arm.

None of the soldiers worried about how strange the humanoid was and they kept attacking him, while defending themselves from the beasts that did not leave, Urik was furious, he no longer had that arrogant smile on his face and decided to get rid of these annoyances .

E sta once appeared behind a soldier choking him with his hands, ~ you 'll be the first ~ said and began to absorb the energy of the body of the soldier, slowly the soldier went from being a young husky nothing more than a skeleton with skin his bones, the skeletal body did not reach to touch the ground when another soldier suffered the same fate, little by little the moans of the soldiers disappeared from the battlefield, the second would soon cease to exist.

When the first platoon managed to secure an escape route, from inside the building Fline's team came out along with the survivors, after informing their orders , they began to withdraw from the battlefield, Fline wanted to help in the battle, but one of the soldiers indicated that they should follow orders, so as not to affect the plan.

~ Sir, we will not last more than a few minutes in this place, the humanoid has already massacred most of us ~ , Pierce after thinking for a moment ordered ~ if possible, leave the place, the plan is almost complete ~ although the vehicles Armored vehicles were able to kill their pursuers, one of them had fallen under constant siege. Pierce knew that there were more than 200 beasts left apart from the humanoid, he was clear that he could not kill them with the equipment at his disposal, for that reason he had created a very dangerous plan, he just hoped they had enough time to execute it.

Outside the viewpoint, soldier Lanz was walking in the direction of the second platoon, he knew the situation of his companions, but he wanted to see if he could help with something, it was too late .

E n the middle of the battlefield, a figure covered in blood , looked at the sky, though all the soldiers were dead, had damaged enough and l body of the humanoid ~ How is it possible that I the great Urik is in this sorry state ~

Urik was angry at how useless the soldiers were, although he spent a lot of energy to kill them he thought he could get it back by extracting it from their bodies, but the amount he got was not enough to recover.

É l was wondering if you should kill their beasts to recover , but did not want to part with them, they were a good defense for should it evolves r , "I do not want to die in the hands of another user when evolve" thought .

Urik, feeling a presence of life around him, looked in the direction of Lanz, he was too hurt to chase him, even so he raised his hand calling him.

~ Come closer little one, I have something to tell you ~

Lanz looked at him raising his gun and said ~ if I shoot you will most likely die, I don't need to know anything about you ~

~ In that you are wrong, if I wanted to, at this moment you would already be dead, it's just that I had a question to ask you ~

~ Just say it, you don't need me to approach for that ~

~ How boring you are ~ he said, after thinking he added ~ Well, I have a question for you, what would you think if I told you that all living beings on this planet are destined to die ~

~ That you are nothing more than a madman, I don't need to hear anything else ~

~ Ah! What a silly little boy, I thought you would be something smarter ~

Lanz was ready to shoot, when Urik raised his hand revealing a hologram, it showed several planets including Earth, all of them were covered by a large red barrier preventing anything from entering them.

~ Now do you believe me? At this moment everyone is prey in a game, including me, I wanted you to share my suffering before dying, only those who manage to have enough strength before the end will survive ~

Lanz was stunned, he was not stupid, the barrier covered everything as far as the hologram showed, I would bet that the solar system was completely trapped in it, without realizing it, Urik was slowly approaching him trying to absorb his energy, but stopped when he felt a threat from the sky .

At that moment Lanz came out of his bewilderment and remembered the plan, he threw a grenade at Urik and shot him as he retreated, he had to leave the area before Pierce activated the main weapon.

The beasts, upon feeling the threat, tried to free themselves from Urik's control and those that succeeded began to run, at that moment a giant halo of light fell from the sky covering the entire area surrounded by soldier Lanz, the latter was running out. from the impact area while being pursued by Urik .

There were only twenty meters left to escape death, but he was hit by an arm , ~ You are a very bad boy ~ he told him when he began to absorb his energy, death was the only thing that awaited the soldier .

Lanz would die, if it were n't for that at that moment Urik ran with the soldier in his arms to the outside of the barrier, it was too late when Dawn hit the ground, this weapon was a plasma cannon installed in space, all of Pierce's preparations were to prevent the targets from escaping the scene.

Pierce thought that he would never use that weapon, this was a relic left by past battles, that the country used in the united front, it had a 200 meter long cannon and several energy cells, but the bad thing about this weapon was its time of reuse, they needed at least a month to use it again, even so, there were 3 weapons as it is orbiting the planet, if necessary.

All the beasts that failed to escape the barrier were killed by the emitted energy and high temperature . D ue to the wells think the team two managed to control the residual damage of the weapon, as is the poisoning of the earth, they had buried several devices that created a barrier under the floor.

Urik's body was losing several parts of his body while trying to get out of the plasma attack, due to the seriousness of his injuries he could not regenerate and he was in a very pathetic state, Lanz was not very different, he had lost half of his body and his skin was completely burned and brittle.

Urik to the view that Lanz still was not dead, wanted to absorb his body to regenerate, with one arm he approached his skull and tried 'm activate his ability, but nothing happened .

~ Damn ! ~ somewhat indecisive decided to use something risky.

Inside Urik, an emerald sphere moved in his body without worrying about anything, he did not care if the wearer died, in the worst case it would seek a new user and continue to absorb energy.

"Sir, I need your help" Urik's voice was heard in the most respectful tone , "I need a little of your energy to live", the sphere stopped moving and began to look in various directions, after thinking it did nothing and continued playing inside it, Urik, feeling that the sphere did not want to help, decided to extract energy from it by force.

Feeling that it was invaded, the sphere screamed ~ How dare you try to steal something of mine, only death awaits those who break the contract ~ , Urik was not moved by those words, if he did not do it he would be dead anyway, all his concentration was on getting a little energy from the sphere, that was enough for him to heal himself completely .

After a moment the voice of the sphere sounded in his mind "Okay, I'll lend you a part of my energy, even so I want several offerings as compensation", "whatever he wants he will have it" said Urik ecstatic and a source energy began to flow through his body, he began to distribute it to each wound regenerating all his lost limbs . Urik mocked cua n innocent was the sphere, only he can get out of control leave her, but because of the contract still Manten dria faithful to her.

A rising, look at the body Lanz was nearly dead, he mocked in é l and did not need and decided to end his life, step by step the fate of the soldier was inevitable, but Urik felt something was wrong with his body, Several cracks appeared on his skin spreading all over his body, ~ What did you do to me ~ he shouted angrily, the sphere inside him was laughing like crazy .

~ Really you thought it would be foolish to let one're not yours offense the first attempt to use me and thought out alive, pity for you that I're not longer necessary, die and join with the souls of the members of your planet ~ said before a great whirlpool appeared in the front of the sphere swallowing Urik's body .

The area was very well thanks to the harvest of the soul of Urik, flot it'm in the air is closer to the body of Lanz . All the energy that he had absorbed was transmitted to another place, his own energy almost did not exist and was about to disappear, but that did not matter too much to him, since it was only a part of his main body in charge of gathering energy .

A brief thought crossed his mind, maybe he could use this body to stay alive a little longer, but he had miscalculated, its surface was breaking at a great speed, "ahh, he 's dead anyway " he thought before rest next to the body. "Even if I get my energy, he will not survive the end of his world." After turning to dust, the residual energy of the sphere along with several reddish fragments entered Lanz's body.

At noon, a team in charge of rescuing the bodies of their companions went to the viewpoint, several of the corpses had been destroyed by the plasma attack, but there were some that were still being delivered to their relatives, among them was the body of Lanz . And he had no injuries and his body was completely regenerated, the only problem was that he had been left in a coma.