Chapter 79

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*BOOM!*

I crash through the cart and dash out, holding both amputated girls in front of me as shields.

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Dalbir looks through his scope.

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Is that...

Someone is running here with two amputated bodies? Wait no, that's... Karma??!"

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I smirk in the direction of Dalbir's base. The sniper, very likely to be Dalbir, must be looking in my direction right now.

"W-Wait! Please no! Karma!" Rena begs

*bzssssst...BOOM!*

"Ack!"

Another shot came in this scorching weather. It pierces through Rena's torso and hits the barrier around my body I set up. Blood splattered out as I continue running at a fast speed.

Luckily the meat shields lessen the impact of the bullet or my barrier would have been destroyed in an instant. I also wore a bullet vest just in case.

Although I have high defence, Dalbir has a high attack. He invested all of his stats into the attack since he is a ranged monster. The only weakness Dalbir possibly has is that he can die instantly when an enemy deals damage to Dalbir.

But his insane capability to shoot across a godly distance covered that weakness up.

Not to mention...the pain from being shot by a sniper rifle is excruciatingly unbearable. A normal civilian would have fainted from bearing the pain. An athletic can maybe last a few minutes.

So having high defence...doesn't mean that you have a high tolerance.

*Ting!* *Ting* *Ting*

The sisters constantly groan in pain as they use their final energy to beg for mercy.

Dalbir is panicking, he is spamming his attack.

Wait no!

I step aside to dodge one bullet.

I see... Dalbir is shooting at the same spot in Rena and Rina. He is accumulating the damage so that the impact dealt with my barrier will be higher, breaking it.

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A sniper is rendered useless if the sniper cannot break through the target's defence. A simple strategy like using two traitors as a meat shield while setting up a barrier may work...but...

*Huff* *Huff*

*Psst!* *bsszt...PST!*

T-This... Is tiring as fuck. God, I might even have broken the world record at this point. Running across a distance of 15km in a scorching wasteland.

And this sniper aiming for my vital organs...

I dodge to the side again to avoid a bullet.

Another bullet came but I am too tired to bother dodging back to back.

In the end, I just shift the position of my meat shields

From the corner of my right eye, I see a row of boulders and uneven terrain. I quickly duck into that boulder for a cover.

Panting, I look at the girls. They are already dead long ago, full of holes and injuries. Their eyes are still open but signs of life are not present. It looked as if they are a corpse from a zombie apocalypse.

I peek out a little as I catch my breath. Dalbir is an experienced sniper, he has probably moved to another spot and tried to find an angle in which he can shoot me. He knows a common mistake every sniper does, camping.

A very easy way to counteract a sniper is to know their position. Once you do, all you need to do is just hide behind a cover and slowly make your way to that sniper.

An experienced sniper always changes location and angle. That's why both location and positioning are important for snipers. You need to be able to access easily a place where you can shoot your target hiding behind a cover from another angle. They won't know that the sniper shot will be coming from that direction and will take them off guard.

But...

I do know one very big weakness of snipers... Low rate of fire, low ammo per magazine, and low mobility. That's why snipers only aim at one target, not multiple...

I spawn in my clone. Dalbir should probably be changing his location right now.

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I decided to change my position a little until I face west instead of south. The mountains are in the east.

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After waiting for about 5 minutes. My clone grabs both my meat shield and runs out. That successfully attracted Dalbir's attention and he starts shooting.

With my main body, I slowly attempt to make my way, behind the rows of rocks and crawl across the uneven terrains towards the mountain.

I don't know how long my clone can last so my clone also occasionally hides behind any cover he finds.

I open up the map. My main body is around 5 km away. Will I make it in time?

After around 30 minutes, I manage to reach the mountain base. Trekking up, I can still hear the shots.

I quickly take note of where the shot is coming from.

From the northwest this time.

I finally touch a flat surface after climbing up the ruthless slope and run in that direction.

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"*huff* *huff*"

Dalbir wipes the sweat off his forehead as he glues his eye into the scope.

Seeing that my clone is crawling on the ground, hiding behind an uneven, edged-out terrain, Dalbir decides to change his position again.

I hide behind a pillar of rocks as Dalbir moves.

As expected, he moves swiftly and fast, unlike most sharpshooters.

Dalbir squeezes himself into a tight space and a cave. I quietly follow him.

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As I squeeze through I notice a thin, translucent line connected to a C4.

That guy...since when?

Was he aware that I am tailing him that's why he set a trap here?

No no, he is not very sharp unlike Jacob, and Dalbir may be doing this as a precaution. I disarm the C4 and move along.

Dalbir finds a hole in the cave directly to the outside, revealing another angle that allows him to shoot my clone's head.

As he gets into his stance and looks into his scope.

I draw my katana before quietly walking up to him.

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I raise my Katana when I'm close enough and attempt to decapitate Dalbir.

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He suddenly reacts in time and uses his rifle to block my attack.

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"K-Karma? How?! Why are there two of you?!" Exclaims Dalbir.

After that, he kicks me off and starts running for it. He runs into another tight corridor and throws down some explosive traps on the way.

I swiftly jump through those traps and went past them.

*BOOOM!!!*

The traps explode, collapsing the tunnel along with it.

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I take a glance behind to find the area collapsing. I quickly jump forward from the fragments of rocks and land perfectly in safety but as soon as I do, I am greeted by a rocket launcher.

"Oh shit-"

Dalbir launches the rocket towards me.

"Sword art form 2"

I plunge my sword into the ground with incredible inhumane brute force, resulting in the terrain around a radius of a kilometre from me breaking, buckling, and folding upwards.

The terrain then acted as a shield for me and the rocket exploded near Dalbir.

"ARGHH!!"

He was thrown and crashed through the ceiling of the cave.

I jump through the ceiling of the cave to find him lying weakly on the floor.

Once he sees me, he immediately aims for his revolver and points it at me.

"Sword art form 1"

I create a wind blade, long enough to reach him quickly, and amputate Dalbir's arm quickly.

"A-ARGHHH!!!!!!!"

Dalbir grasps his bleeding arms in pain as he looks at me.

"S-Shameless bastard." Dalbir mumbles.

When Dalbir and I met in the "lobby world" of stage 5. His eyes were filled with admiration. Now it is filled with disgust.

"Using your teammates as shields and using such a cowardly method." Says Dalbir.

It looks like Dalbir is now aware that I have a clone skill. I won't be able to bluff him again with my clone after this moment... So...

I raise my Katana as Dalbir falls onto the ground.

I need to use this moment to finish him off.

Dalbir grits his teeth as he glares at me.

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"Dalbir. You are just a child so you haven't experienced much yet but... The only way one can defeat a monster is to become a demon. Remember this." I say.

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"What?..."

I smile as Dalbir shrinks his eyes in confusion.

"As for Lustzn, don't worry. I don't know what she did to force you to ally with her but... I will take care of her soon."

Dalbir's eyes widen. "How...did you know?"

The eyes filled with disgust instantly becomes surprised.

And I decapitate Dalbir, a 14-year-old child.

Alas... I got rid of him but I still need to find the base.

I check the surrounding terrain and found a caved-in entrance.

I use a C4 to blow it up and check inside.

It's...dark.

Hmm...

I take a flashlight out and venture in.

I have two choices now. I can wait 1 day for the position of the flag to be revealed but Dalbir would have respawned by then but I would have saved my energy and am still able to fight.

Or I could try to search...

No no, I need to think from Dalbir's perspective, he is the leader. Despite being young, he is not stupid.

Now... The terrain is rocky and uneven. There are lots of blind spots. One will assume that the flag will be placed near the defender which is Dalbir. That is too obvious so the flag must be somewhere else, hidden.

That is what a normal gamer will think.

So...the flag must be...

I craft a gigantic greatsword made from the diamond minerals in the cave. It is quite durable.

I then jump up high into the air with all of my strength before slamming back down with my greatsword.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!*

Everyone on the map heard it. Like an earthquake of some sort, the shock wave created by me destroys instantly everything around me. The mountains break apart, caves collapse, and landslides of rocks occurred in every direction. The only thing left now is one giant hole which used to be a chunk of mountains.

Found it~

The flag is hidden directly beneath the mountain, with no entrance at all or anything. This...is an excellent hiding spot but a bad one as well. Just simply think out of the box and I already discovered it.

I grab the flag and pull it out.

*PEEEEP*

A sound echoed through the entire map.

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The flag has been stolen, bring the flag back to your base to achieve victory for this round.

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The flag holder's location, Karma, is now revealed to everyone.

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Haha...

Well, bring it on.

I climb out of the hole to find a wave of NPCs coming after me.

Several shot rockets in my direction.

I yawn as I see their fruitless attempt and jump down to face them.

The first army of NPCs comes charging at me with their melee weapons.

With one slash, I immediately decapitate everyone and move on to the second wave.

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"W-Wait!"

I end the second wave within 2 breaths. That threw everyone off and their formation broke.

It's not even a fight at this point, it's just a massacre.

Everyone started losing their morale to fight while I was only getting started.

"What is this demon? How can he move like that and slaughter with a smile like that?!"

I look at the person who said that.

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"D-Don't come near me!!" 

I run towards that guy and decapitates him, instantly the entire enemy team was wiped out and i bought the flag back to my base, winning the round.