Chapter 869: ITEM
The green pillar was moving much faster than anyone could imagine.
*Boom!*
A bright green light lit up the night sky. A hole with a diameter of several meters appeared on the roof of the building where Su Xiao was previously standing. The steel bars and cement around the edges of the hole were bright red, indicating the high temperature of this green light.
A beautiful girl in a purple dress was standing in an alley dozens of meters away from the building. She had long brown wavy hair and looked to be in her early twenties.
She breathed a sigh of relief and displeasure at being given another slightly boring assignment.
— That's all, the task this time was too simple.
This girl is Shizuri Mugino, a level five esper. She was fourth on Academy City's list of the strongest fifth-rank espers. Its ability is to control electrons. She was now a member of ITEM, one of Academy City's shady organizations. Basically, this organization was responsible for suppressing riots, spying on the board of directors, eliminating unwanted personalities, and so on, in general, this organization was responsible for all the dirty work.
This time, the point of her mission was to kill the uninvited guest, Su Xiao. After finding her target, Shizuri Mugino decided to eliminate her immediately. Although she looked cute, she was actually extremely violent.
Two girls were standing next to Shizuri Mugino. One of them was wearing an orange hoodie and had her hands in her pockets. Because of the darkness of the alley and the hood, it was impossible to make out her face, but judging from her height, she was probably about a middle school student, or even an elementary school student.
As for the other girl, she had wavy blonde hair, was wearing a black cap with a visor and a white blouse with a short skirt. Judging by her age, she was a high school student.
The one in the hood was also ITEM member Kinuhata Saiya, while the one with long blonde wavy hair was Frenda Savelun.
They both consisted of " ITEM».
The ITEM organization had its own unique feature. There were a total of five participants and all of them were women, but only four of them had superpowers.
The three girls in the alley were wearing identical wireless earbuds. The fourth member of their organization was responsible for target detection, her name was Takitsubo Riko. After taking special drugs, her range of perception became so wide that it could not be described normally, but her perception in this state was somewhat inferior, although this did not prevent her from detecting the right people.
However, this disadvantage was leveled by other special drugs, which made her perception very sharp and did not allow her to hide from her detection even with the help of other skills..
— Still alive, " a sleepy voice said in the earphones. Takitsubo seemed like she could fall asleep at any moment.
— Not dead? Shizuri Mugino was a little surprised. She was sure that she had hit their target with her beam, and it was aimed directly at the head.
On the roof of the building across the street, the bright light soon dissipated, revealing a light blue shield that was covered in cracks.
This energy shield was created with 200 mana points, but was practically destroyed with just one attack.
— Rico, where is our target? Mugino's sharp fingers pressed down on the earphones as her eyes darted quickly around the area.
— From above... Right above you.
Immediately, a sharp sound rang out above them.
*A clang!*
A light blue energy was rushing towards them from the sky, and it was moving directly towards Shizuri Mugino.
Almost immediately, a miniature figure jumped into the air, it was Kinuhata. With her hands clasped together, she moved straight towards that light.
A moment later, Kinuhata's slender hands made contact with the light. With a click, the layer of invisible armor shattered, but that light also disappeared with it.
Kinuhata was a level 4 esper. Her ability was called "Nitrogen Armor". She could use nitrogen to form an invisible nitrogen armor several centimeters thick around her body. She could both defend and attack. Although she looked like a little girl, it wasn't worth paying attention to in reality. In fact, she was a "Bug Child", the result of the "Dark May" project, a real killing machine.
At the same time that her nitrogen armor was breached, Kinuhata took an iron jar from her waist and pulled on its tongue.
With a pop, the liquid nitrogen from the iron jar sprayed out, forming a thicker nitrogen armor around it.
— What happened? Frenda Savelun looked confused. She was a level 0 esper and mostly relied on explosives, but she didn't have a backpack with her right now.
*Pum*
A figure in black landed not far from the three girls. As soon as it landed, a light red wave immediately spread out from it in all directions.
Shizuri Mugino's long brown hair danced in the air, her pupils narrowed, her heartbeat sped up, and her body muscles unconsciously relaxed.
There was already a bright light in front of her eyes!
Only with her instincts did Shizuri Mugino create a barrier of green light in front of her. She could control the electrons and both attack and defend herself with them. This green barrier was also very hot, and anything that came into contact with it would suffer the effects of corrosion and decomposition.
The bright light was stopped by the barrier, and just 30 centimeters away, the sword blade stopped.
Su Xiao decided to stop at the last moment. Although the Dragon Flash would be able to survive such a collision, its durability would be greatly reduced. If his main weapon was damaged immediately after entering this world, it would clearly not lead to anything good.
And Su Xiao recognized Shizuri Mugino, after all, she was ranked fourth among the strongest espers. Of course, it was ranked fourth only because of official statistics, which was not a very reliable source, but still.
Jumping back, Su Xiao glanced at the three girls.
With the help of this skirmish, Su Xiao discovered a few points. First, espers had very strong attacking abilities, and they attacked without warning. He hadn't even sensed a drop of killing intent before, but it was most likely due to Shizuri Mugino's ability.
Second, espers had very sharp perceptions, or at least extremely sharp eyesight. Perhaps this was the result of their development of superpowers, for they constantly loaded their brains.
Third, espers weren't really that weak in close combat. Of course, a lot depended on the esper's ability, but Su Xiao had previously released his aura, which dealt them (100+(willpower*5)) damage. The damage dealt by this skill ignored armor, magic resistance, and other types of defenses, but out of the three girls, only Frenda Savelun, a girl with long blonde wavy hair, coughed up blood.
The espers weren't as weak as he initially thought. At the very least, it wasn't really that easy to kill them. If they were at the level of ordinary people, the aura release would have already killed them.
Or maybe their skills increased their health or reduced the damage they took to a certain extent. Su Xiao was more inclined towards the first option.
If espers were weak, this world wouldn't be considered a third-rank world.
Through this skirmish, Su Xiao gained a lot of useful information. As for the purpose of this group, he had one pretty good guess. They were probably sent to his soul by Aleister Crowley.
Shizuri Mugino stretched out her hands and a green barrier immediately blocked the passage, dividing the alley into parts.
When the green barrier touched the walls, they began to rapidly melt and decompose.
— There's something wrong with this guy. Is he an esper? He's very strong!
Blood flowed from the corners of Mugino's mouth. Her legs were shaking, and her intuition was telling her to run, and run as fast as possible.
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