264 Reconquest 3 (1/2)

Hey, Gamma here with a quick message.

After ducking into cover Dax suddenly found himself with enough time to spare that he was able to think, something which he wasn't all that happy about. If anything it only served to put him more on edge. Assessing a surveillance satellite downlink trained on his current location to get eyes on the elder which was still launching razor sharp mana crystals after him, Dax finally realized that the elder was doing something strange.

(What the fuck is it doing now?)

Judging from the satellite feed, the elder was purposely shredding its biomass while producing some sort of strange black, goo like liquid while flowed out endlessly from its rune covered, grotesque body.

(Well, whatever it is doing I'm not just going to sit here and wait for it to finish.)

Tasking CAS through his satellite connection a slight smile appeared on Dax's face while his eyes lost their focus as he primed his arm mounted 50 mill launcher. Even if he refused to admit it, there was a part of his qiton blood which screamed out in joy over fighting for his own life, the high chance that he could die the second he stepped out of cover was simply amazing.

”ZU RA!”

(FIREMISSION CONFIRMED, DANGER CLOSE.)

Rushing out of cover, Dax caught the elder mid transformation as he opened up with his 50 mill launcher, detonating the grenade early to create a mana interfering smoke screen right in front of the elder which screeched in due to the mana formations it used to keep its body together was disrupted, at the same time the first volley of orbital artillery support finally landed.

[SPLASH, NEXT WAVE: 7 SECONDS.]

With the area around the elder being pelted with a potent mix of airburst and semi armour pricing shells it was forced to put up numerous shields, thus it was temporarily blinded. Expecting Dax to emerge from one of the flanks as it knew that Dax would also have his spells disrupted by going through the middle, it slammed down its remaining tentacles and created a surge of rock shards which shot towards the left while sending out a hail of crystal shards towards the right, but at the same time Dax emerged out the mana disrupting smoke with a bloodthirsty smile on his face.

(I don't need mana to kill you!)

With the shields the elder had put up blocking its attacks, the elder was slightly affected by Dax's dense killing intent as it hastily started tearing them down as it sent out a shotgun like burst of high pressure wind blades, only realizing that such an action was a mistake the very last second.

[SPLASH, FINAL WAVE: 3 SECONDS.]

[SPLASH, FIRE MISSION COMPLETE. IMI ASSESSES GOOD EFFECT ON TARGET, TARGET NEUTRALIZED.]

”... Why the fuck did you have to say that?”

Going by his gut feeling Dax was pretty sure that the elder was still alive, even after he was sure that he had sliced its core in half.

(There is something strange about this elder, especially after it had realized he was stalling for time, it seemed like it was trying to alter its- !!!)

Realizing what was going on at the last second as all the hairs on his back suddenly stood on end, Dax broke his posture, just as a crystal tipped thin, whip like tentacle pierced the area where his head had been only a split second before. Flipping his shortsword to a reverse grip Dax rolled on the floor to avoid more of the whip like tentacles which tried to sewer him alive before he got back on his feet, then taking a defensive stance Dax started cutting down a seemingly endless wave of tentacles emerging from the dust cloud in front of him which was slowly starting to clear up.

[Target not neutralized, I repeat, TARGET NOT NEUTRALIZED! Requesting additional fire support at priority omega and immediate backup!]

[DIRECTIVE CONFIRMED, TASKING ALL AVAILABLE ORBITAL QRF TEAMS FOR IMMEDIATE DEORBIT.]