The Zombie Tournament

Act 12 : A Total Stand-Off

As the strange personality informed them of a group of enemies close to their place, Juno Rumondor has to decide on how to react against. He was contemplating over many probability of Gorand Industries’ line-up. Sam Vratili was dead, for sure, but his pair of zombies would have a new master right away, completing their touch of strength in a single glance.

In Juno Rumondor’s mind, Gorand Industries would be having a lot of supplementary collectors to gang them up. If such renowned weapon refinement site has become their ally, Gorand Industries’ likely subordinates would be in unimaginable quantities to boot. Their expansive war-mongering atrocity and desire to give a weapon modification on their zombie’s horde were stood as the prominent leader in Minopia’s game of death, alongside Tonado’s keen interest in a rare talent of zombie’s owner.

However, all Zeno Gunnar has known in hand was about the survival game’s rules at the most. There were no limits on chances of winning in this elimination chapter. None of the competitors has learned of the human survivors’ numbers, their locations, or with whom they were affiliated with. The young knight was a little bit too late to finding out on team-up opportunities, but at least someone has pulled him into the pack afterwards.

“How many out there, Rudolfo?” Juno Rumondor asked. In return, the man replied by four fingers up to his palm.

“There are two human, four zombies. Damon and Samila were in the group, as well.”

Zeno Gunnar’s ears tingle when Samila’s name was announced. The fabled keris seemed to be their source of direction for approaching Tonado’s domain. On the previous day of battle, He was under lock-on feature of the mystical dagger ahead, and it apparently remained on the aim for the time being.

After thinking for awhile, Juno Rumondor offers them of an option with one index finger up to the ceiling, “If there’s Damon, we have to send out a decoy to occupy them on board. Any volunteer?”

The young knight felt that a burden of responsibility has to be under his account. It was him, after all, who was dragging them into a mess with Gorand Industries in such early start of the game. Of Juno Rumondor’s description on the company’s capabilities, they were widely recognized by a metal part on their zombie’s posture. Their sensors could mark a zombie’s activity from a long distance beyond, and those were attached on Deino Gunnar’s muscle.

“Me. I’ll go on as sacrifice.” Zeno Gunnar raised his hand to the option. He can’t flee away from a knight’s obligation to pay over their mistakes,”You can take my brother out from here. My father and I will kick their ass, for sure.”

However, towards Zeno Gunnar’s proposal, Juno Rumondor shrugs, “Nah, we have to start behaving in a group, understand? I’m just kidding back then, you know.”

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There are six-on-nine combatants within the round of battle ahead of Tonado’s obscure shelter in the still-unknown parts of the city. It takes the quartet half an hour to arrive far longer than Rudolfo’s projection of their upcoming, as the spy’s far-fetched goggles has saying so beforehand. As a result, they could manifest a small window of their time to make a brief plan ahead.

Deino and Sanna Gunnar has returned in one team alongside the young knight at the spearhead of their new group of survivors. Tanya Rushdi’s fist-fighter zombie has been revamped with elastic zombie’s arms and staying with other melee-based attackers on the front line.

His master, otherwise, has defended herself behind a shield to cover up against any danger of the warfare. She was ordered to stay put and be concealed inside Tonado’s hidden fortress, but Tanya’s interest towards four-legged zombie and many forms of limited edition’s beast has driven her out of the safety zone by her own decision onwards.

Conversely, the female zombie collector has begun to attain a combat vest rather than a dress. Under the kevlar thread of the light-worn armor, Tanya Rushdi would never be humiliated by forced-up scratch across her chest any longer.

Behind them, Rudolfo and his sniper-head zombie was protecting the team’s flank with their rifle. Zeno Gunnar was still on study of the man’s skills and expertise, while also putting a close attention to the sniper-head zombie’s mounted long-range rifle on its head socket. On the other hand, Juno Rumondor was standing on the middle of their group by a female zombie on his side. She wears two claws-ornamented gloves on her palms. In contrary to the regular ones, however, its leathers has a circular hole at the center.

On the opposite side, four-legged zombie and his golden axe was standing on the front row of their group’s formation. On the rear, the mysterious caped assassin has prepared the keris within the clutch of his left hand, then approaching Sam Vratili’s beast to the spearhead of their group. Above them, the airborne zombie could still evade from the sniper-head’s continuous attack, but having itself no time for a break in expense of the beast’s constant fly-by.

In adverse, Damon’s human counterpart was occupying himself with drawn-out order for Sam Vratili’s hench-zombies. However, the robe-wearing man has two different form of wristwatch on both of his arms, with mysterious reason for the other platform to utilize.

Among their opponent’s group, however, the zombie in the middle is relatively foreign to the young knight. Identical to the dagger-user on the forefront, the beast dressed-up within a cape on its back. But, its short-sleeves garb has brought a difference to the beast’s style of appearance, since no zombies in Zeno Gunnar’s path had worn such luxurious attire to the battlefield.

As of the fourth thinkable zombie of their team, Damon’s small speedster zombie, was somewhat hidden from sight. Rudolfo has spoken on its presence before, but it was nowhere to be found in their ranks.

“Beware of the tiny critter, Zeno. He’s invisible.” Muttered Juno Rumondor into his earpiece, “ Samila would only target one person, so use my meat-shield bomb if you have been targeted.”

“Roger.” Zeno Gunnar replied,”You know who’s in the center?”

Juno Rumondor shook his head, “Nope, we have to pray it’s not lethal for our team, though.”

(click-click)

“Let’s avenge your last defeat, Father.”

The young knight switched on the recently-installed beaming yellow for the starter of Deino Gunnar’s input of command. Juno Rumondor has updated the man’s wristwatch under Tonado’s state-of-the-art technology of vital energy-driven strength. Its eyes were glowing in yellow due to the stabilized mechanism of its adrenaline rush, therefore diminishing the legendary warrior’s useless power output to be more effective in each strike of the beast’s fearsome power.

Nonetheless, Deino Gunnar’s raw potency will be lesser than red-rage combat, but still goes better in short-range attack than the blue and green-colored ones anyway.

‘all-rounder mode activated.’

(zuung)

“Now, hold back for awhile until I give you a following command, father.” Zeno Gunnar laid out his further strings of command afterwards.

“Grrr....Grrr......”

After completing his father’s combination list in a short time, Zeno Gunnar puts his thought towards the other person on the line, “For you, green is a good fit, Sanna. Find the small zombie and finish him off.” The young knight drilled the command at once.

‘Surveillance mode activated.’

(crash!)

Out of the blue, Sanna Gunnar springs up to the air and crashing towards the enemy’s speedster zombie as early as its chain of instruction assigned. Juno Rumondor was modified Sanna’s combat key to be more sensitive against invisible foe. The green vector increased the young zombie’s sense of perception into far more advanced than a common stray’s capacity in the wild, and the old man has elevated Sanna’s observation over any drastic air movement around the zombie’s combat zone in essence.

(s***h)

(bzztt!)

Without further ado, Sanna Gunnar decimated Damon’s veiled zombie out of their battle in an instant.

“How’s that for a simple adjustment, Zeno?” The old man captain’s snorted in amazement of Sanna’s considerable change of attack. After that, he clicks on his own wristwatch, applying a row of instruction to the female zombie beside him afterwards.

(drap-drap-drap)

The four-legged beast has begun to gallop towards them. It swings his golden axe up front and focusing on the stance of assault.

(beep-beep)

”Jet Blue water, then, honey.” Juno Rumondor announced to his female zombie, which was replying on his command by a stream of sapphire on its eyes.

(zuung)

‘Water burst mode activated.’

Juno Rumondor plays on his female zombie’s blue form of power to counter-act with the four-legged beast advance. Zeno Gunnar was told that she is a speedster zombie in ability, but the man’s actual instruction has brought another form of nonsensical consideration into the battlefield at some point.

(blitz!)

The female zombie dashes to the frontline as soon as it gets. She arrived to the forefront as requested, and the circle on her palms went unlocked ahead of the four-legged beast’s progress towards them to be her means of attack subsequently.

(spray!)

Suddenly, a massive jet of liquid was spewed out from the female zombie’s both hands, hitting the four-legged beast in ruthless speed and pressure. At first, it seemed as if her advance would mean nothing against him due to the monster’s unparalelled power, but then someone else has joined on the pursue from the female zombie’s rear in immediate fashion.

(freeze!)

That was Juno Rumondor and his loads of freezing bomb to the call-out of their next. The old man has manufactured a bitter-cold grenade to become a devastating combination attack alongside his female zombie on the front-line of their battle. It would immobilize their feet or crippling them in a stretch of period, handed Tonado’s other brawlers to settle with their threats at the same time.

“It’s our chance, father! Go get’em!”

(blast!)

Zeno Gunnar’s instruction was a melody to the legendary warrior’s primitive sense of warfare. He springs out straight away against the frozen-down enemy before him, jumping up to 10 meters forward under the beast’s powerful sprint to give his best strike of attack at once.

Until an unseen blow of hazardous gale interrupted Deino Gunnar’s prompt of assault against the four-legged beast in an instant.

(swoosh!)

(roll!roll!)

Due to the unimaginable storm from their opponent’s direction, most of Tonado’s forefront defender were wiped away and dropped off their defensive posture simultaneously. Only Rudolfo and his sniper-head partner that were out from harm at the moment, since both of them were beyond the strong current of wind at the time.

(grumble-grumble)

Zeno Gunnar was also drifted out from the front line, as well. The young knight was pounced over by the blast and got pushed away from Tonado’s ranks. However, his athletic expertise could reverted the man back to the former stance instantaneously, making him gained an outlook of the wind summoner at a glance before most of his allies could.

(zuuu-zuuu)

The garb-clothed zombie’s palms were bathed in gleaming shade of green, as much as its eyes have as a recently-activated mode in the middle of their fight. Many instances of dust has been broken away ahead of his standing point within a tiny form of typhoon. Likewise, Its cape was lifted up by the immense boost down below, bringing a node of conclusion to Zeno Gunnar’s mind.

“That’s from the zombie in the middle!” Muttered him immediately, “We have to eliminate that zombie magician, or our advance will be pointless anyway.”