Chapter 36 Show-offs
Jan and Leslie quickly came back to the group as the rest had secured the bridge. There were no more enemies as Rohan sat and waited on the barrier with the rest.
"Nice shots Jan" He called out as Leslie and Jan arrived.
"Now we wait until Ntombi visits us" Britta told them. This was also the plan decided with Follin, the only possible place to still check in how it was going with everyone was after the Bridges. After that all the teams would be on their own until they met up again closer to Duran's cross.
The city was quiet again as they waited. The grey bridge sat in silence, normally it would be covered in cars for work. The first part of the inner city was purely business oriented, the northwestern district of the inner city was all on sales and management of many businesses. The part just after Griseo bridge was no different.
All the buildings were build from concrete in this area, high skyscrapers with windows. The highest floors sometimes reserved as luxury apartments or penthouses. The inner city was purely focused on business, and the only relaxation areas or anything close to a cozy atmosphere was all faked to put on a show. The real city was in the outer ring, allowing the people to really socialize and enjoy their little time off they had.
It took around 30 minutes before Ntombi showed up out of the blue. She came from a minor street a bit further than the bridge as she ran quickly.
"Good to see you all in one piece, the other teams are mostly fine, no people died. You can all move on to the next part. The final meeting spot will be the final east-west bridge before Duran's cross. Good luck" She put her thumbs up and left again. She was in a hurry to relay all the info back to Follin, who would be the mastermind of their shelter's plan.
"Well you heard her, let's get moving slowly but steadily, Leslie you can pick the route that covers as much area as possible, while being quick." Britta got up from the barrier as she gave the dead satyr's one last look. They had debated over whether to take their stuff, but ultimately decided not too. It didn't seem to be that good of equipment anyways.
"Yes Britta, we will stay close to the border of our area, if we need we can always go into Charles segment. It will take a couple of hours to get to the location but it will be the most effective." Leslie was starting his rambling again as Rohan spaced out.
He wondered if the whole plan was the best choice, but alas… there was only one way to find out. He was also getting closer to level 25, hopefully he would be able to get through the barrier easier. He didn't have high hopes on getting a strong enough skill core to help him so it would take some time to fill experience bar to 100%.
Rohan walked behind Leslie as they continued on the way slowly further towards Duran's Cross. It wasn't much later that they encountered more satyr's. This time it was only a group of 6 with some light armor and swords standing on a corner. They hadn't even noticed the group appear and move closer. It ended before any real fighting happened.
'Bringing a gun to a swordfight is truly unfair… but you won't hear me complain'
"Well let's hope we stayed quiet enough, but soon other groups might notice and come to support. Keep it in mind guys."
"ugh, no work for daddy's launcher it is then…" Ragnar sad with a depressed look on his face. Rohan cringed physically after hearing the name Ragnar gave it, it was truly horrendous.
"Never call it that name again or it disappears to the bottom of the river." Britta said as Rohan could only agree with her. Ragnar made a soft disagreeing sound but didn't voice any complaints.
Not long after they would encounter a few more small groups of satyr's, which they handled quickly. They would occasionally hear fighting sounds far in the background from other groups, which the satyr's didn't bother reacting to.
It all went rather smoothly until a different large group of satyrs appeared. The moment Rohan turned around the corner and looked at the group, all of the satyr's seemed to react, looking straight back at him. There were a dozen satyr's sitting on the ground or leaning against the wall. All of them were tall, muscular and had a refined build, their horns protruding from the helmets, proudly displaying its size.
Rohan felt an uncomfortable feeling appear in his stomach as the others stood silently.
"Hold it" Britta quickly stretched her arms out to stop them from moving further. Not that anyone wanted to.
"We shouldn't engage, they look different but mainly stronger."
"We wait and slowly move back" She said softly as she kept looking at the satyr's
As Rohan took one step back all of the satyr's reacted, they got up and seemed to move their arms and legs weirdly. It oddly looked like a stretching exercise. The satyr's looked at each other and lowered themselves while leaning forward.
'Shit they are going to run' Rohan wanted to warn the group but was too late, he could only try to raise his gun at the satyrs. He saw all of them dash to a different place. They were at least 200 meters away, but it only took them a second to get out of his vision behind the buildings. Only one of the satyr's remained behind, he ran with ease towards them in a few seconds.
When the satyr approached, Rohan aimed his gun. But even then the satyr didn't react as it continued on it's way as it looked at them. It didn't run straight for them, more like pass next to them as Rohan followed it. The satyr kept the same momentum as it reached their side and continued around the corner. Not giving them anymore attention. None of them felt like shooting at the satyr. They knew that if any of the satyrs wanted to, it could have killed all of them with ease.
Hearing Britta swallow loudly, Rohan finally regained full control over his body again. He had tensed his body fully and drew a shaky breath as he sat down on the ground. The rest followed after him as all of them looked pale.
"Either they have orders to follow, or are just playing with us. I don't know which one." Rohan felt that the way satyr's behaved became more weird the closer they got to Duran's Cross.