Artificial 7: Genesis Requiem

Chapter 40: Tsuchigumo

Seth's POV:

"How man years has it been since I had a worthy opponent worthy of my time?! Come! Let us have a legendary battle that will be passed down for the ages!"
I smirk and aim my twin guns, Luminous and Umbra,
as Yuzuhara grabs a crate of explosives and yeets them at Azule.
He fires at me,
and I phase through the tank fire and shoot a shadow bullet and a beam of light from both guns,
exploding the crate practically on Azule.

Azule stumbles,
but fires tank shells at Yuzuhara,
who kept grabbing every explosive crate she could,
chucking them,
I exploded them,
he fired random shells,
he missed,
Yuzuhara cuts him and stabs him,
and I shoot him with Luminous,
and I noticed he's healing at an astonishing rate.
I figured he was super human but not a Demon.
It didn't matter,
though,
as once we ran out of explosives,
I filled him full of so many holes.
He fell over backward and started bleeding out.
"Well, that didn't take long."

1 hour before these trains of events. Selena's POV:

Once everyone made it out of HQ and the Inquisiters joined the fray,
Terra, Ventus, Seth, Zoey,
and Yuzuhara bolted on their own,
no doubt,
running off emotions.
I paged Seth back, knowing he'd catch up,
and I could see the fear clear in his eyes. I grabbed a hand and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Seth, look at me. Natalie and the others are safe. They have Belladonna and Morgan who are on the twin's level to protect them. Just calm down, do some deep breaths like Himiko taught you, and prioritize keeping Terra, Ventus, and the other two safe."

Seth does as told.
Takes a few deep breaths,
gives my hand a soft but firm squeeze, and nods.
Seth goes on his way,
and I go on mine.
Himiko and Shimura were a couple blocks away,
using their Holy Gospels short throwing swords and katanas.
I drew both my guns and kept them covering fire as we pushed back against the mech suits and the occasional mech.

Shimura and I armed ourselves with SMGs and put the harness around our necks,
choosing to rely on the big abundance of battlefield guns than our own vastly limited ammo.
The war took us inside a factory where the power worked,
lit hallways and everything, but the Exorcist we followed were ambushed and triggered claymores.

I ran into the hallway and blocked most incoming bullets with my sword,
and Shimura backed me up with gunning them down from the hallway as best he could.
The Inquisiters searched every fiber of this building before moving,
yelling clear,
and then we met outside the factory on a different street,
engaging in another firefight.

Himiko takes a sniper rifel,
and this gave me more work room other than my sword,
so I prioritized my SMG,
and we mowed down the enemies with the occasional Inquisiter pulling out a handful of blue powder and blowing it at the enemy,
dousing them in blue Hell Fire.

Mechs started to rear their head in the park region,
so we headed there next only to be met with Exorcist being mowed down with finger machine guns,
rail gun palms,
and shoulder mounted rockets.
The Inquisiters got behind anything,
and Shimura released the Transcend skill.

With Shimura's 20-plus years of training and constant breaking of his bones,
he has hardened his own skeleton like a suit of armor,
and Transcend releases the limits on the human body,
making them fast and strong like a Super Soldier,
if not fast and stronger.
Shimura uses his aura to fly,
and in the next second,
the mech falls on its back by Shimura's kick!
Himiko did the same and used the first sacred sword technique to super heat her katana to the point of cutting even through metal like a hot knife through butter,
cutting off the arms and legs of the mechs.

We pushed forward onto a different street,
and this time,
Genesis clones were armed with guns and swords as well,
so we had a firefight that lasted a few minutes with neither side truly winning. Shimura and Himiko took the counter offensive by maneuvering around cars and trees until all enemies were shot. Mech suits included.
Shimura, Himiko,
and I got a call,
and it was the Pope.
"Move towards the Eurostar high speed train."