Chapter 19 Inner city bridge
The inner city had two river rings, sometimes also called the canals. The first was the Outer Canal, and the second was the Inner Canal. The Outer Canal separated inner city from the rest of the city, while the Inner Canal was just a reason for the rich people to have boats, as no commercial boats were allowed to sail on it.
Many bridges were located over the Outer Canal, close to 30 if Rohan guessed correctly. The team was currently on a sixth floor of a building, looking at two potential bridges they could cross. The only problem was that these were guarded by satyrs.
The satyrs had actual organized guards stationed on the bridge, with armor and weapons, luckily no guns though… at least not yet.
Leslie had quickly described the bridges closed to them, but they weren't such good options as all of them were made too practical. Meaning that there was almost no cover except for the rails on the side.
The two bridges close were some of the oldest, and had many decorative parts on the sides, allowing for some cover or they could climb it on the side when it was darker. But the best option was still to just barge full on in.
Checking out the satyrs there were only 6 in total with 2 at the front of the bridge and 4 at the back. All of them did have armor, but it looked like they were non-bulletproof leather.
"Jan you take out the satyr in the back just when they start bleating, not any earlier, not any later. Leslie stay with Jan on the lookout and don't move until its clear." Britta explained to the team while she had quickly come up with a plan.
"The rest follows me, we take out the 2 front people silenty and then move in quickly to take out the remaining in the back. Don't spend ammo too quickly, we don't have unlimited amounts"
It was slowly starting to get a bit darker, also due to the mountains everywhere around the valley the total sun hours in Duran were limited. They only had a few minutes to move, after that the automatic lighting would turn on that was powered on Duran's geothermal energy. This powered the whole city every day and would be extremely hard to turn off.
Jan stayed in the building with Leslie and Fiora. The other three moved to the bridge. Rohan took the satyr in the back, aiming his gun.
"Rohan, just one quick shot to the head, not any more." Britta whispered as she took her axe out.
BANG
ZWOOSH zwoosh zwoosj
Rohan heard Britta throw her axe at the closest satyr, and saw his target plump down. Now it was a matter of seeing if Jan fired or not… if he did they would need to sprint for it.
1 second
2 seconds
3 seconds
5 seconds, and they heard nothing. "Seems like they didn't notice us, let's move up" Britta waved them on as she took her axe out of the first satyrs skull. They had a few minutes to cross the bridge that was a couple hundred meters long. The cars on the bridge were giving them just enough cover, but they had to move quickly, otherwise the satyrs could notice a problem.
The satyrs weren't smart, but not as dumb as the stragglers. Almost going into a run Rohan, Britta and Ragnar were moving as fast as they could while trying to stay low. It look like they had severe back problems from the way that they were running all hunched over.
Using the cars they could shortly hide behind them and move further to the end. They made it past three quarters when the lights started turning on. First Duran's cross would turn on, and then all the light would move to the edge of the city within a minute.
ZWING
Rohan heard the nearby lantern turn on as he heard the satyrs grunt loudly. They hadn't discovered Rohan yet but it wouldn't take much longer. Rohan hid shortly behind a car, checking behind him for Britta and Ragnar that were slower.
The four remaining satyrs were very divided, one of them was standing on the corner of the bridge, while the other 3 were more in the back sitting together and eating. The only one focused on the bridge was the corner satyr, who also looked to be the highest ranked if having a helmet counted as a higher rank.
The helmet satyr kept his focus on the bridge every so often before he would move around again or look out over the water. It hadn't spotted any of them yet, but Britta and Ragnar weren't the most subtle.
Rohan moved on to the next couple of cars while the satyr wasn't looking, hopefully the others would do the same. He almost made it to the edge of the bridge when a car alarm starting sounding a little bit back from his position.
Ducking next to a car he heard the other satyrs get up and move toward the bridge, time was pressing. As Rohan took the gun in his hand he quickly looked back, Britta and Ragnar were too far away.
Suddenly a bullet zipped bast him as he heard it hit a satyr. Jan had shot one of them down that was about to alert others. Rohan quickly stood up and aimed his gun at the satyrs, one of the satyrs in the back was dead. He had just a second before the satyrs would react, so he aimed for the satyr with a helmet.
BANG BANG
Rohan shot twice and hit the helmet satyr.
[You have slain Satyr]
[Experience earned]
The other 2 satyrs got up and ran in different directions. Rohan aimed and fired at the satyr on the left side.
[You have slain Satyr]
[Experience earned]
Rohan aimed at the other satyr and pulled the trigger… 'CLICK'
"shit"