[PGR] Light Upon a Broken World

[Chapter 7] - Grief of the Iron Maiden

(POV - 3RD)

Four pairs of footsteps graced the ruined cityscape once more as the Gray Ravens plus Kiryu was en route to the location of the last sighting of the Ascendant known as "Iron Maiden" which had made contact with the Nozzle unit and another unknown Ascendant.

The team had already reviewed the memories provided by the Nozzle, so far, the Iron Maiden had resisted all forms of attacks from multiple attack squads of Constructs and Corrupted alike. 

Its main form of offense is conjuring up rows of dark thorns that erupts from the ground or manifest in thin air as projectiles, even the Nozzle's thick outer armour wasn't enough to fully prevent it from damaging it, thus many attackers afterwards were easily mowed down.

Therefore, they need to establish several Iso-Devices in order to create a small isolation zone which will hopefully contain the target by forming an invisible ring around the movement area thus entrapping the Corrupted and allowing squadrons to take it on together.

Furthermore, the mission the Gray Ravens undertook are more than special from their previous tasks, emphasised by the dangers of the Iron Maiden's powers so the HQ has also sent a Construct to support the team.

"Lee, what are Iso-Devices?" Liv asked, curious as she dabbled in medical arts and not tech which Lee snarked at the thought of the said devices.

"It's from the Cosmos Technicians Union which emanates a Corrupted-repelling field for a certain amount of time... it will take time to set up... and it's also heavy and unwieldy."

"Speaking of which... with how good you are with mechanics, I would have thought you were one of the Cosmos technicians too..."

"I didn't stay there long just as I did with Kurono-" Lee started but a rather cheerful shout interrupted his words.

"YOOHOO! GRAY RAVENS!!" A petite grey-haired female Construct holding a chainsaw suddenly appeared in front of them.

Although  the sudden entrance surprised them all, Lucia nonetheless asked.

"Are you the Construct that Celica mentioned? The one coming to support us?"

"Indeed! Walking the path of heavens... the Construct who will rule everything... it is I! Nanami!" The Construct introduced herself, bouncing in her steps.

"...Is she bonkers?" Lee murmured before Kiryu elbowed him as Liv walked up to her.

"Nanami, why are alone outside? What mission were you on before?"

"Nanami's always been by herself! But um... what was I doing just now? Oh! Those graffiti looked super-duper interesting so Nanami checked it out." The chainsaw-wielding girl stated.

"But now, Nanami's ready to dance with the famous Gray Ravens!" She added.

Indeed, famous, the past few weeks of the team's continuous deployments back on Earth and returning with 100% rate of success had become quite famous throughout the whole of Babylonia, much to Kiryu's chagrin as he prefers information relating to them to be discreet.