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Chapter 383 - Chapter 383

The first to breach the door was Pearl. Even in her new metal heavy armor that Adam helped put on her she was still among the fastest in the group. Adam might be faster overall but from her position she was closer.

The moment she stepped through the door she laid into the room with her massive laser rifle that Adam built for her. In response to her laser fire bullets began to ricochet off her armor from inside, creating a dangerous entry point. With her hulking frame and the firefight going on right in the doorway the door was no longer an viable entrance, instead Adam pivoted a few feet over, right to where the foggy and browned window was. Considering the firefight the door was under, the window seemed the smarter choice so Adam dove through.

However, he did not have time to be careful with the glass shards that would no doubt stab him if he dove through head first. So instead he dove through the window feet first. His heavy boots would certainly not be punctured on his way through. The surprising fact was that as he dove through he landed center mass on a cultist who was on the other side of the window, obscured by the browned glass. In effect Adam had ended up drop-kicking him in the chest as he went feet first through the window.

The man Adam kicked went partly spiralling off his feet as Adam fell on his side onto the ground inside the factory. However Adam was more prepared to spring right into action than the man he had just kicked, so before the cultist could even gather his wits Adam had shot him in the chest a few times with his laser rifle, watching him disintegrate into a pile of ashes a moment later.

Adam then rolled behind a large factory line machine as bullets began to pepper the metal box as soon as he got into cover. It was then that Milla brushed past Pearl, fired off a grenade round from her single barreled grande rifle and killed at least one cultist in the explosion, buying the time and space for several others to pour in from the front.

Within moments the factory floor had turned into a battleground. Even the small anteroom that separated the front door and the main factory floor was filled with bullets and lasers. There was no telling how many cultists were in here or even exactly where they all were. In fact if not for the fact that Adam's group was on the same side of the factory as each other they might even be worried about hitting allies.

That is until the cultists all charged towards Adam over the factory floor with a fearless war cry. Perhaps they were out of bullets, perhaps they were tired of the back and forth, or perhaps this was some crazy cultist doctrine. In either case while several more cultists were gunned down before they reached Adam's side, enough made it that a hand to hand brawl broke out immediately.

Two came in towards Adam, one brandishing a knife, the other, a power first. Adam hit the arm holding the knife down with the butt of his laser rifle so the trajectory would miss him and then kicked the man with the power fist in the stomach before he could throw a punch. Adam then whipped around to catch the arm of the man with the knife before he was stabbed. The action forced Adam to drop his laser rifle but gave him the leverage to pull the cultist around so that the new meatshield faced the one with the power fist just as it was going to connect with Adam. Instead the power fist collapsed all the ribs of the cultist Adam was holding and dissipated the blow so Adam was uninjured. He then threw the broken man at the other one and then pounced on him as he threw his friend off.

Once on the ground Adam pinned the arm with the power fist underneath his knee and pulled the knife from his sheath. A moment later the knife was implanted in the cultist's neck and Adam had successfully fought off two fanatics. As he stood back up Adam saw the one with his ribs broken writhing on the ground and decided to end him and his suffering. One bullet to the head with his 10mm pistol was enough to stop his pain immediately.

Turning around to look at the others he saw a mess of a brawl taking place all across the factory floor near the entrance. Some cultists were already dead, but there were enough of them that the melee was dangerous for all involved. Pearl had clearly already been stabbed as she had a large dagger sticking out of her body in one of the few gaps in the armor pieces but she was fighting alone against several cultists with her super sledge. He was not worried much about her.

The one who worried Adam the most was Buddy who had no combat capability of note when in melee. Buddy could swing his arms down like a hammer, which was not ineffective. But the cultists were not as simple as they looked, these were all fighters and they fought with both tenacity and intelligence. Buddy was unable to fight off the single cultist hitting him with a lead pipe, denting his chassis.

Before Adam could run over and help Buddy, Hades opened fire with his laser gatling and eviscerated the cultist attacking Buddy on his own without a word before shooting a rocket off into the distance of the factory where another cultist, who had not joined the melee, was lining up a shot. The explosion was a dead hit, he did not last a second.

Instead Adam threw himself into the fight Percy was only slightly losing against two cultists of his own. Adam couldn't be sure, but it was probably due to his bum leg that he was having trouble. Right as he was about to be run through by a lawnmower blade turned into some sort of sword, Adam body checked the woman about to run Percy through and then fired into the head of the one Percy was in the middle of a grapple with.

As if to return the favor Percy then whipped around and shot his own pistol into the head of the woman with the sword. Her head flowered open with a bright red mist. Percy offered Adam a grateful nod before turning his gun into the mess still going on around them, Adam joined in too alongside them.

The fight was starting to look in their favor, the cultists numbers dwindling. However the fight entered its final stage as soon as the rooftop team returned to the bottom floor. Deccanus charged right into the melee and cut down cultists with reckless abandon and Eve too gleefully joined the fight, her claws and chassis already dripping with blood even before she jumped into the brawl.

Within a minute of their arrival the fight had ended. The cutlists in the facility were all dead or dying on the ground and everyone could finally breathe a sigh of relief. They had won.

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