S3E9: One Shot Determines the Fate / Sanib
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While the lengthy exchange of words is still going on, Edilbert stealthily rushes out of the central chamber, knowing it to be signal jammed, then quickly calls the sniper duo.
“Lagenstrom! Please get into position! We've already breached the central chamber and encountered the mastermind behind the abductions!”
“We're on it!”
“And the situation here is getting worse!”
He can sense the door closing, trapping his other comrades still in the chamber.
“I have just been locked out of the central chamber, and I fear what happens to my friends inside! I leave the rest of the mission to you, Lagenstrom and Knightley!”
The marksman calmly replies, “Roger. Over and out.”
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“And now... you've brought some more babes just for my greatest pleasure!” Mr. Hefner gloats. “And for that, I thank you.”
Christian just replies, “Get your filthy hands off the princess and my female comrades! They can put up a fight, you know!”
“Oh-ho-ho! So they can resist my greatest works, eh? Well, you all must know one thing... 'The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.' AHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Giuseppe dishes out his own fighting words.
“And are you linked to The Movement itself?! Those vehicles they deployed almost killed my friends!”
The perverse just sneers... “In a word, yes. For your big fat information... I'm also the CEO of Vixeray Corporation, headquartered in Pateropolis, and my company makes all those killer machines that help The Movement solidify their rule over Daig'digaia! Get this into your pathetic little brains, moral cadets... It's all about the money... the violence... and especially... the S! The E! And the X!”
With just a finger snap from the CEO, the following happens in the next minute.
Genetically-modified humans who have the same ugly face and body emerge and try to encroach the female combatants and entourage members, while murmuring the following words...
“NTR... poop... insects... feet... cuckold... gore... urination... humiliation... mind break... moral degeneration... vomit... snuff... asphyxiation... mind control... corruption... inflation...”
And then, an invisible beam that affected Benoit moments ago is now affecting the other male combatants and entourage members, almost incapacitating them or making them unable to fight.
To add insult to injury, vicious monsters also start coming out of the woodwork, trying to assist the so-called “ugly bastards” in encroaching on the now-helpless women.
***
Jamieson and Zoe can't believe what they are witnessing via the sniper rifle's scope.
Desiring to end this deluge of degeneracy and help their friends, they immediately spring into action.
Zoe declares, “Green light! Roger!”
With a calm disposition, the marksman starts aiming his rifle at an “ugly bastard” and immediately dispatches him with a head shot.
Zoe is on standby as she continuously monitors the situation via her own binoculars.
And if her partner runs out of ammo, she will immediately hand him a magazine so he can reload his rifle and continue the sniping.
Mr. Hefner's lackeys, whether human or monster, go down in one shot each; and so far, Jamieson never misses a shot nor hits an innocent, whether his friends who are trapped or the abducted women who are still held hostage.
Frustrated that his lackeys are gradually dropping like flies from an unknown source, Mr. Hefner immediately brings out a big red button and pushes it, activating a huge robot consisting of lots of robotic appendages.
He smugly brings out his words of contempt to his enemies.
“So... there's a sniper spoiling my grand plans. Well... I'm gonna give that moral cadet a really hard time! But to the women here, I'm sure you will all have a REALLY good time instead! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Seeing the situation from the outside, Zoe reacts...
“It looks like he's brought out his trump card. Or should I say... desperation card.”
She then focuses her binoculars on one of the robotic appendages, and discovers something.
“Jamie! There's a weak spot near the appendage's head, and it is indicated by a gray circle in a field of black! Shoot it to disable it for good!”
“Got it.”
Still retaining his composure, Jamieson aims at the appendages' proverbial Achilles heels and shoots them, making the appendages themselves fall to the ground, never to rise again.
And if ever an appendage is about to touch the women, he heightens his adrenaline and quickly shoots it out of commission.
With his keen senses, he is able to take down all 55 robotic appendages in just five minutes.
That take-down is much faster than when he took out all 42 lackeys in six minutes.
With no other enemies other than the boss himself left standing, Zoe implores him.
“The enemy's having a hissy fit! Take him down with one shot!”
With a much steadier grip on his rifle, he aims at the boss's head, and waits for the right time to pull the trigger.
“Now! Shoot!”
The trigger is pulled, and the bullet ejects from the rifle.
The bullet's trajectory is as straight as ever, and there are no things such as wind direction and air resistance to mess it up, since the dungeon itself has this stale air.
The bullet continues on piercing through several panes of glass, until it penetrates the central chamber's walls...
...and eventually through the head of the perverse.
Corneorito Hefner's skull is broken, his life ended in an instant.
“You're the greatest!”
Zoe compliments her ever-reliable partner.
“It's just part of my job,” Jamieson banters, showing a hint of a smile on his face.
Seconds later, Edilbert receives a call from Jamieson, telling him the good news.
“All targets were neutralized. No allies or hostages are harmed.”
“Excellent. Now our allies will be back on their feet again.”
“Copy that.”
***
Geez... what happened to my head?
And... what's with the ugly bastards, monsters, and tentacle-like thingies doing, all sprawled up on the floor?
But I don't need to worry any further, since I can see that my male allies are recovering from their trance-like state, my female allies are breathing huge sighs of relief, and a white-suited man with the ugliest face I can ever see is drowning in his own pool of blood.
This central chamber – this den of degenerative filth – should be all cleared, and we should be all ready to rescue the abducted women... until we can all hear an evil laugh stirring the chamber's arid air.
“HAHAHAHAHA!!! You thought you could end your so-called 'moral turpitude' by eliminating the body? The spirit still remains, dimwits! And I, Mephisto Guingona, will ensure my legacy of degeneracy remains for all eternity, since it is human nature after all! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
An evil spirit emerges from the white-suited bastard's mouth and forms into a cluster of mist surrounding a humanoid horned devil clad in off-white...
...and it quickly vacuums and possesses the other downed “ugly bastards”, monsters, and tentacle-like thingies to form a blasphemous and really disgusting mish-mash of a monster himself.
“Now witness the glorious form that will put an end to disgusting vanilla moral cadets like you all!”
I bravely lash out at the evil spirit, “No way you can dictate people's intimate lives like that! They are already the captains of their own ships, and this world ill needs someone who's all forms of disgusting and traumatizing such as you!”
“Go ahead... try. But your minds will all still break, and your bodies will be the vessels of their own deepest and darkest desires! This is the ultimate fantasy you've all been craving all your lives!”
[Note]
Choose the party for the upcoming battle from the allies you've enlisted into the first three groups.
For the purpose of this novel, the party will be composed of what is indicated within the boss battle section.
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[Boss Battle: Mephisto Guingona]
An evil spirit who possessed Corneorito Hefner, the CEO of Vixeray Corporation and the mastermind behind the disappearances of several women in Sarbacutta. His ultimate aim is to envelop the world in basal desires, eliminating all traces of decency and morality in all of humanity.
Level 41 | HP: ?????? | MP: ????
Party: Benoit, Edilbert, Giuseppe, Christian, Jurina, CJ
All combatants dish out their attacks and even their Burning Vigor Attacks, but the result is always the same – Mephisto Guingona always receives 0 damage.
The news of the spirit emerging from Mr. Hefner's corpse and possessing anything it can possess also reaches Jamieson and Zoe.
But instead of panicking, they retain their composure as they coordinate to get some shots in.
However, the evil spirit knows a sniper is targeting him, and he thus emits a force shield that blocks all bullets and other projectile attacks, and thus receives 0 damage.
And for the first time ever, the marksman and his partner wear the faces of frustration.
“Love does not conquer all, unlike what you all believe from those so-called guardians of morality and decency! Desire DOES conquer all... and I will show you all how right now!”
After he belts out his diatribe, Mephisto Guingona performs his ultimate attack, Emergent Metamorphosis.
All allies receive 9999 damage each and are knocked out.
Battle ended.
***
With everyone knocked out cold, the specter of immorality just gloats, lording over his apparent victory.
- Writer
