Chapter 110: In Flanders Field

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In the blink of an eye, Kingsglaives' defenses crumbled, chaos and death all around. The first three minutes had claimed Solar, Yeojin, Yves, and Chuu. There are no body to be collected, for immediately after the initiation of the attack another relentless barrages of artillery rained down upon every square inch of the defended area.

"SHIELDS UP!" Seungyeon screams, dragging those who closest to her inside the shielded area.

Within seconds the blue domes can be seen erected all over the place, but some of the photon shields could not withstand the power of the artillery round. The shield dome breaks, full penetration of the round, shredding and killing everyone within the explosion radius. Blood and body parts accompanying the shrapnels, colouring the other blue domes with the velvety scarlet red.

Seungyeon can only grits her teeth, watching helplessly while her comrades meeting their ends in the most gruesome manner. Seunghee and Jin are supposed to be in the same area, she scans through the deadly light shows for them. Then she caught a glimpse of Jin on her right. Or what is left of her on the ground. But her remain does not stay the way it is for long, for another round of 152mm dropped dead center on top of her remain and splatting a chunk of her face onto Seungyeon's shield dome.

00:00:00. Park 'Jin @ Draculina' Myungeun, 25. KIA.

Then she hears a loud crack on top of her shield dome.

"Shit..." She curses, in slow motion she sees the tip of the 152mm piercing through the crack, the artillery shell falling slowly towards the ground seven feet from her. And the last thing Seungyeon ever sees is the blinding light, and at the same time the weird sensation of her body being separated albeit the feeling of pain is absent.

00:00:00. Jang Seungyeon, 16. KIA.

"SEUNGYEON!!!!" Seunghee's screams breaks through the deafening bombardment, her tears flowing heavy from her eyes. And the most unreasonable thing that is happening right now is the shell that killed Seungyeon was the very last shell of the barrage.

Seunghee staggers, dragging herself to the crater in front of her. All that left of Seungyeon was her hand, her silver friendship ring that Seunghee gave to her now dyed with Seungyeon's own blood. Seunghee cannot figure out what she should be feeling right now. Is it grief? Sadness? Anguish? A tempest of emotions came rushing in at once, breaking Seunghee's mind and sanity.

"Haha... Hah.. Ha.. Hahahah... HAHAHAHAH!!!" Seunghee laughs, but nothing joyful contained inside that laughter. That is the laughter of one that has lost her mind. A laughter of someone that had lost everything, even her own self.

"Heh... I remember this one. Pity..." Seunghee does not realizes what is going on around her, for a male and female cyborgs are returning to the area to resume their massacre. Seunghee could not even feel the muzzle of blaster sticks on the back of her head.

"Sierra. Stop playing with your prey. We need to finish this for the next stage." The female cyborgs reminds her partner, before quartering the soldier with her blades.

"Relax, Tango. Let me savour this." Tango smiles, the muzzle of his blaster glowing red before ejecting the plasma beam onto Seunghee's head.

00:00:00. Oh Seunghee, 16. KIA.

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The Eye of Horus is truly on rampage, their bloodlust know no boundaries. Their pattern of attack is simple but the deadliest; an alternate switching of artillery barrage and the cyborgs assault. They leave no gap of recovery at all, as the last shell of artillery hits the ground the cyborgs resume their attacks. And that had been going on for the last hour. Not to mention the cyborgs are enforcing leave none alive word by word, making the rescue of the injured worthless.

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