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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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Pah! Nothing but a commoner with a lousy slice skill, thought Ninja. This climber was nothing but chattel, fodder for the wolves.
The harpy was clearly much more powerful than the lone climber.
Poor guy. He must have gotten lost from his squad.
Too bad for him, thought Ninja. And lucky harpy. It stole my kill.
The E-rank climber cried in pain as the harpy ripped through its guts.
Ninja smiled at the dying man’s suffering and then continued forth, moving slyly through the streets.
He had his assignment to accomplish. He had to kill the recent arrival in the tower-zone. The kid from the outer-rim.
The defense and city climbers had pushed back the monster wave to close proximity to the tower, which meant the rest of the city was near empty. Most of the climbers on duty were at the front of the battle and everyone else was tucked up inside, protected by the runes and wards that kept the monsters from attacking the tower-zone civilians. They were all cooped up like chickens. It meant the foxes of the night had free reign and Ninja had keys to the coop.
He arrived at a tall apartment building.
Most of the window lights were off. The foolish traitless. So at ease with the danger all around them. Monsters were summoned to attack the city and they’d got so use to the manatech defenses they didn’t even blink twice about it. They didn’t even contemplate all the climbers sacrificing their lives month to month so that they could just sit around and go to bed without a care in the world.
It was pathetic, thought Ninja.
But tonight wasn’t about killing traitless as much as he wished it might be.
He walked up to the edge of the apartment building and planted his feet on the wall. He imbued mana onto his feet and started walking up along the walls of the building, breaking the laws of human physics in the process.
Ninja ran up the side of the building, counting the floors as he did so.
Floor one...
Floor two...
Floor three...
Eventually he got to the eighth floor.
Apartment 803.
That was his destination.
The wind blew gently across his face as he stood eight stories above the ground on the side of the building. Screams and explosions could be faintly heard at the other end of the city, closer to the tower where the monster wave battle was taking place.
Ninja moved to apartment 803 and silently stepped onto the balcony.
He double-tapped the window quietly and the defense ward flashed red, lighting up the area.
He quickly grabbed his specialty knife and cut marks through the rune itself, disabling it.
With the defense ward removed, he was able to slide open the glass door and step into the apartment.
All the lights were off. It was silent.