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- Tower Climber
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They continued sprinting down the main city street.
“If we turn here,” said Max. “We might be able to take a shortcut.”
Casey agreed so they made a right turn and then a left into an alleyway.
They stumbled across a group of climbers who didn’t seem to be doing anything. They were smoking cigarettes and playing cards.
“What are you doing?” shouted Casey. “The city’s under attack!”
The climbers stood up at the sight of them and they started to laugh menacingly at them.
Max was starting to regret their shortcut plan.
It was a good plan in theory: as they’d be off the main road and less likely to run into horrible scary monsters and chaos.
It was a bad plan in practice because instead of all that, they ran into a group of climbers who were clearly working for the Archer family.
Their mission had just hit its first obstacle.
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“Oh, the city is under attack?” one of the climbers asked with a smirk. “I hadn’t noticed.”
Max and Casey took a step back from the group of men.
He recognized some of them. These were climbers who had been on duty in the outer-rim. That’s what Samuel was up to when they snuck into the other part of the city. He was gathering all of the climbers who were loyal to him.
“The girl is kind of cute,” said one of the climbers. “The boss told us to just wait here. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if we also had a bit of fun.”
Casey scrunched her nose in absolute repulsion at the men.
Max felt his blood boil.
They were going to have to fight through these guys and Max suddenly had no hesitant feelings about doing so.
The rogue climbers rushed towards them.
Max shadow blinked behind them and elbowed one in the back of the head with a rush of force and mana, sending his face smacking into the concrete floor of the alley.
Meanwhile, Casey had whipped out her thousand paper crane attack: filling the alley with a gust of wind and paper cranes.
The origami birds fluttered through the air slicing at the necks of the rogue climbers.
They coughed up blood and fell to the ground.
The paper birds flew in a flock back into Casey’s pouch.
“That move,” said Max, “is seriously insane.”
They hurried down the alley only to find a C-rank climber waiting for them. This guy kept his eyes up to the sky, paying attention to the swirling airborne monsters.
Max suddenly understood what those other climbers they’d just fought were doing. They were guarding this guy. Another buffer.
Samuel Archer must have buffers all across the city to help him control the monsters.