The Zombie Tournament

Act 51 : To Pay a Visit

“All’s complete, Zeno Gunnar. Pleased to be at your service.”

Jan Liwacz screws some of the loosen-up beams within Deino Gunnar’s skin. His white aura has proven to be determinant for their small group’s triumph against marauders from Sanza. However, to be exploded means the legendary warrior will have himself degraded at the same time. Deino Gunnar was guarded by the detonation-proof of the white eye-power, yet it is also the very beginning of the legendary warrior’s usage on that tap, so the power still has a tight limit to be taken with care regardless.

For now, his body could receive 3 times of explosion in maximum potential, so a profound tweak has to be done afterwards. Nevertheless, Zeno Gunnar has no money to be spent for now, only a few free tune-up for preserving its capabilities in general.

“How about it, Zeno? Is my invention that good?” Juno Rumondor tapped on the young knight’s shoulders,”I’ve been working on it without sleep for three days straight, so it should be that excellent to you, right?”

Zeno Gunnar nodded,“Yeah, you’ve awakened my father’s old power. I don’t really know how you did it, but thanks.”

“Hahaha, don’t mention it. I have a great time doing your dad.” He chuckled.

Much to the captain’s cognizance, however, his last sentence brought a nuisance to the young knight’s senses. For that, he quickly bowed to both of them for a token of apology,”Sorry, Zeno, Jan, I don’t mean to say that. It’s all about the tinkering and such.” He scratched his hair awkwardly.

“No worries, just call me whenever your zombies need a tune-up, okay?” Jan Liwacz replied,”Don’t worry, for a simple repair your company has them on budget, so just punch that number and I’ll catch up on you as fast as a speedster zombie could.”

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For now, there are only eight of them remained. Two more contestants from their group has to be dismissed in the morning of the fifth day. Out of them all, there are three more medals to be acquired. Zeno Gunnar and Frank Terino’s medal in Altagrada, with one other person that the young knight has known nothing about yet. Based on Juno Rumondor’s explanation, the person has similar magical prowess as Sanna, even though it can never be as diverse as his little brother does.

In the dawn of the fifth day, the group goes on the flight to Altagrada in full team. No squad breakdown in the same way to the yesterday’s feud because of how many crews they have lost by the strategy applied. Indeed, It is the perfect situation to make acquaintance with the rest of their group, for the two of them have been with them for today’s hunt. It has been quite far and wide for the man to learn of their presence, but never too late to make friends anyway.

“Hey, you’re Zeno, right? I wanted to meet you so much!”

A short-haired woman with yellow-ish skin introduced herself to the young knight in admiration. Her black-pupils sparkled when looking at Zeno Gunnar’s stern expression, goes on blinking to the man’s stare and gulping down in slight distress. No wonder, the young knight’s achievement has been astounding to everyone’s mind so far. Tonado’s management even flattered on themselves in the latest announcement of the second game’s standings.

Hence, Her nervousness on meeting him face-to-face is meant to be there sooner or later.

“Who are you, then? You haven’t stated your name.” Zeno Gunnar replied. His bold implication made the woman stunned. She stuttered a bit and swallowed her own guts in shame.

“Errr.....Errr..... are you hate me, Mr. Gunnar? You sounds annoyed.” She spelled.

“No, you’re the one that haven’t done your thing. Just tell me your name.”

Being able to control herself, the woman in front of him could finally handle her fright. She offers a handshake to the young knight and smile,”Oh, right. I’m Gina Keaton, but you can call me Gina for short.”

Before Gina Keaton could identify herself further, Juno Rumondor abruptly speaks,”That woman is our usual scout, but her martial arts techniques is flawless, as well.” He explained. Of course, being interrupted never fun for a fan-girl, so the woman’s face turned out a little bit grumpy and glared at her captain with a small bit of anger in mind.

“I can speak for myself, daddy-o.” She retorted,”I have to piggyback that statement, too, anyway, so I’m using these claws for daily basis.”

She showed both of her metal frames on the palm of her hand. The red-tinted blade could be retracted back into the glove whenever its owner wants to interact. To add, it also goes automatically, so there would never become awkward for either sides if a handshake is needed to seal the deal.

“I see. Nice to know you, Gina.” He smiled back in return.

On the other side, the white-haired man feels content to see more of the nature around them than to learn on people’s mind. The man seeks an apple to eat, and he gained by a small jump to the wagon behind. His black-frame glasses has its temple tips latched to the back of the forehead for any fierce contact that appeared. One seventy-centimeters long cleaver sword on the spine dangles in his way to the row of carriage at the back.

“Hey, introduce yourself, Heimlich. What’s wrong with being amicable this time?” Juno Rumondor called on him for a slight prologue on his ability. However, the man decided to reject his captain’s notion and stays out from their group to get busy with himself at most,”Yeah, that’s literally our top-slicer of the group before you came, Zeno. He’s Heimlich Kessler, but you can call him Kess for the simple one.” He described.

“What’s his power then?”

Juno Rumondor pointed at the white-haired man’s cleaver,”That’s his weapon, but that person mostly doing it bare-handed. He could smack people with blue flame for good.”

(rumble-rumble)

“Hey, Please correct me if I’m wrong, but is that Frandemulo?” Tanya Rushdi asked.

In the distance, a white smoke emerged from behind the walls of a certain kingdom up north. Tonado fighting club’s group could see everything that occurred. There are countless rows of soldiers before the main gate of the stronghold ahead. It seemed to be a siege, but nobody could be sure of what happened, unless they were involved in the actual warfare that beckoned.

On the other end of the battlefield, no hints of countermeasure from the city’s bastion to this extent. The full-armored soldier were incapable to get through its sturdy fortification. In spite of its wooden structure at the peak, the wall itself is quite mountainous to climb. Indeed, for a high-end technology of Minopia, there should be no boundaries for breaking down the layer of defense, yet something else hindered their advance at some point.

Instead of making his own choice, Juno Rumondor glanced to the young knight for a suggestion,”How’s that one for you? Should we save them or not?” He said,”Queen Aldana will be grateful, and we can also save their city from total obliteration. She’s the key of Minopia’s quick printer and we could do something for her at least.”

“Why me?”

Juno Rumondor shrugged,”Well, you’re the man in charge two days ago. You have better knowledge of that Queen than I am. So please, be my guest.”

Zeno Gunnar squinted his eyes to venture across the city’s defense. This is non-trivial matters to absolve. Doubts of her rulings has devised a node of objection to the rescue. Kamara has stated on her devious monarchy and of how much she is on being the Governor of Frandemulo to this day. Hidden in the shadows, indeed, to a degree of absolute domination in every political turmoil within the country’s government.

However, their citizen are fairly innocent and sinless to Queen Aldana’s countless wrongdoings. Around thirty thousand people were living inside the wooden buildings of the beach city. If they have chosen to abandon their morality and leaving for Altagrada at once. A medal for one of their player would also be situated there in some ways, denying any probability to have more than half of their total medals required for the third stage.

“How could we sneak inside the wall, Juno? I want to help her, but we’re gonna be in a massive debt if we barge in carelessly.” He asked.

Towards Zeno Gunnar’s query, Juno Rumondor directed his index finger towards Gina Keaton, Heimlich Kessler and Damon respectively,”These three have speed we need for this particular objective. We’ll gonna have to wait for their results to get in. What say you three?”

All three of them nodded to their captain’s request.

“What about me? I have speed too, Juno.” Zeno Gunnar questioned,”My aura could make me going faster than Damon, as well.”

Juno Rumondor, however, refused to accept and shook,”No, that’s not about it, actually. They have experience for this kind of mission, and you’re a first-timer, so let’s settle this to them.”

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In their brief plan to enter the city’s border, Damon is acted as the spearhead of their surveillance formation. Juno Rumondor handed each of them four smoke grenades with sleeping functionality alongside four more to confuse. For the latter, Juno Rumondor has designed it to incite any soldiers within its range for doing a friendly-fire against their teammates nearby.

“Remember, use it at your own risk. These bombs will put you in non-debt danger if there’s no consideration in using it.” The captain advised,”It’s time for you to shine too, Kess. You have a good ability in this.”

“Whatever, Juno. I’m doing this for myself.” Heimlich Kessler sneered.

(tap-tap-tap)

Their group dismissed in unison and disappeared to their corresponding position of the strategy. The key holder will go straight away to the waygate for opening its door with another form of Juno Rumondor’s piece of technology he received. Heimlich Kessler and Gina Keaton stride to the other flank for diversion impact, each with their own device to concoct at the place of arrival.

(boom!)

On the southwestern area outside Frandemulo’s border, Gina Keaton commenced a ruckus by flashing one confusion grenade to random direction around the block. She orchestrated such commotion by putting an aim towards the most rowdy ones that seemed to be viable for the run.

(battle noise)

A single can of the grenade could initiate a widespread knockdown. Juno Rumondor’s fume of bewilderment could emanate for half an hour straight. It will affect anyone’s brain to hallucinate on something they have none in consideration with. Over their own allies’ uniform, a small dose of the bomb should bring them into thinking that everyone outside of their own zone are enemies that was meant to be killed on sight.

It goes the same way for Heimlich Kessler on the southeastern region. He puts some of the smoke grenade, afterwards, solely to entertain himself on being the mastermind of the disturbance occurred.

“Permission to load the detonators.” Gina Keaton briefed. After a few crackle, Heimlich Kessler whispered to the speaker, as much.

“I’m here. What should we do?”

“Place the bomb after Damon says that he’s getting closer there, too.” Juno Rumondor said,”How’s the infiltration process, Damon?”

“On my way.” Damon answered in-between his breathing phase,”I’ll be at the door in one minute.”