Toymaker

The Storm (13)

The Blackstar used its blades to slash open the abdomens of every merc it faced as if it had an infatuation with it considering its lore it would make sense, the Loremaker of Blackstar gave it a personality quirk that made it obsessed with seppuku that it practices its cutting skills on its targets until it reaches what it considers a perfect cut and masters it, and then use it to end its life.

The only problem was that the Loremaker also gave it a secondary personality quirk that it will never see anything as perfect, it chases perfection at something but is unable to perceive what it considers as perfection, it will forever see everything as imperfect.

Panels situated at its back opened and fired powerful pulse waves to propel itself towards any direction it wanted, it dogdge the bullets being fired at it in the this narrow path with nothing but rubble behind it, the mercs kept on running but they were incapable of fighting against a 3★ character since they were just regular humans.

Their numbers dwindled as the Blackstar harvested more lives whilst not even gaining a single scratch upon its pitch black body.

"MOTHERFUCKER!"

The leader tapped his wrist and opened his portable Holocom, he pressed a very low-key icon that opened their private comms and connected to their employer.

"BOSS WE CANT FINISH THIS TASK! WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS! THE OPPONENTS BLACKSTAR IS GONNA WIPE US OUT!"

"You idiots! I should never have ordered you guys to perform this task! Youre all a waste of space! God damn it!... I already sent a Combattler to assist your escape, only escape, this Combattler is still new but he is a reliable 2★ combatant"

The channel closed and the app got deleted to prevent it from being traced back to George, the network path was even flooded by junk information and cyber noise to further lower the chances of being tracked.

They kept running and the Blackstar kept slashing its red blades towards every merc that blocked its path, they reached a dead end and the Blackstar slowly walked closer to them, there were only 17 of them left and all of their hearts pulsed rapidly and loudly, so loud that it sounded like drums.

Each step the Blackstar took they would step back twice the amount until they all hugged the wall, the Blackstar was walking slowly step by step making its footsteps echo in the dead end, this was a typical villain move and flaw, playing with their victims and it made sense since Blackstar was a villain in CYBERFRONTIER plus it wasnt ordered to end it quick.

It was when Blackstar was just 5 metres away did a voice echo in their location, a disrupted voice.

"GATE OPEN! ADVENT CALL!"

A swirling portal that looked like molten lava mixed with deep blue water appeared and behind it a toy was dropped, the toy looked like a rock shaped human with shields attached on its arms, the portal absorbed it and then on the otherside a 10 metre tall rock golem exited snd blocked the path of Blackstar.

It was a golem that originated from a series in this world named ERANDIEL: WORLD OF MANA, it is a fantasy series centering around the cliched hero and harem party where the hero beats all the enemies with ease, it was created by a Loremaker when they were still 5★ and it was still ongoing now that the Loremaker became 7★.

This defensive type rock golem wad a 2★ level fodder with all its stats focused on defense and nothing else, the leader was overjoyed when he saw the golem and looked up to see an Anti-grav chopper above them tossing its rope down to pick them up, ofcourse this chopper had the logo of a very big terrorist group plastered on its side.

The logo was that of an eye located in the center of a square and beneath it was the groups name, A-EG, which stands for Anti-Evolution Group, its a terrorist organization that believes Loremakers, Toymakers, and Combattlers are a stain to humanitys natural evolution, they want to eradicate every single one of them and put everything on their supposed right track.

The mercs climbed up and boarded the chopper with ease due to the golem, Blackstar kept on slashing on the golems shield but was unable to permanently damage it especially with the golem absorbing the surrounding buildings to heal.

Blackstar tried to maneuver its way past the golem but everytime it did so an EMP rocket would hit where it planned to go stunning it momentarily, just enough for it to be pushed back by the golem.

It kept on attempting to fulfill its task to the fullest but was unable to, due to the interference of the mercs reinforcements.

In the chopper was a shorter assumingly male figure sat down with an orb floating in their hand to keep control of the golem.

"Were so lucky to have you help us sir, thank you very much for saving our asses"

The leader thanked the Combattler sincerely, even though he was crooked by trade he was still sensible enough to know who truly saved their lives, the Conbattler waved their hand as if saying it was fine.

The chopper left and the golem was retrieved by the portal when they were too far away, the toy dropped on the floor, it was a cheap 2★ so it seems the Combattler was rich enough to not care about taking it back.