Chapter 865: Item

The green beam struck almost instantly, faster than imaginable.

Boom!

The green light, mixed with fire, illuminated the night sky. A hole several meters in diameter was blown into the roof where Su Xiao was standing. The steel bars and concrete at the edge of the hole were scorched red, showing how high the temperature of this green beam was.

A slender woman in a purple dress was standing in an alley several dozen meters away. The woman had long, wavy brown hair and looked to be in her twenties. She yawned, seemingly feeling that this mission was a bit boring.

"Solved. This job is really simple."

The woman's name is Mugino Shizuri, a Level 5 ability user, ranked fourth among Academy City's ability users. Her ability is 'Meltdowner'. She is currently a member of 'ITEM' (Item). 'Item' is a dark organization under Academy City's Board of Directors, mainly responsible for suppressing riots, assassinations, and cleaning up foreign invaders. Some shady work is handled by the Item organization.

This mission was to clean up foreign invaders, which meant capturing or killing Su Xiao. Mugino Shizuri chose to 'kill' directly. She looked sweet but was exceptionally cruel.

Standing next to Mugino Shizuri were two other girls. One was wearing an orange short shirt with a hood. This girl had her hands in her pockets and wore the hood on her head. Because they were in a dark alley and obscured by the hood, her appearance could not be seen, but judging by her height, the girl was not old. A middle school student? A primary school student was also possible.

As for the other one, she had wavy golden hair, wore a black baseball cap, and a white short skirt. Judging by her age, she should be a high school student.

The one wearing the hood was 'Item' member Kinuhata Saiai, and the one with wavy golden hair was Frenda Seivelun. Both were members of Item.

The Item organization had a characteristic: there were five members in total, all female, four of whom were ability users.

The three Item members in the alley were all wearing wireless earphones. The fourth member of Item was similar to a sensory type, named Takitsubo Rikou. After taking drugs, her sensory range became perverted, but her perception had a flaw: she could only sense ability users. She determined the enemy's position by sensing other ability users' AIM fields. AIM fields were unique to ability users.

However, after Takitsubo Rikou took drugs, her ability would be greatly enhanced. Within a certain distance, even if the enemy was not an ability user, she could locate them through nearby AIM fields.

"Still alive."

A drowsy voice came through Mugino Shizuri's earphone. Takitsubo Rikou sounded like she could fall asleep at any moment.

"Not dead?"

Mugino Shizuri was somewhat surprised. She could be certain that the enemy had taken her beam cannon hit squarely just now. Calculating from the position, the beam cannon should have hit the head.

On the roof across the street, the fire dissipated. A pale blue energy shield full of cracks slowly dissipated into the air. This was a 200-point strength energy shield, which had been shattered in one hit.

"Takitsubo, where is the enemy?"

Mugino Shizuri's fingers pressed on the earphone, her eyes scanning the surroundings quickly.

"Above... your heads."

As soon as the words fell, a crisp sound of a blade came.

Clang!

A pale blue blade light slashed down from high altitude, moving extremely fast, slashing straight toward Mugino Shizuri.

At the same time, a petite figure jumped up. It was Kinuhata Saiai, who was wearing a hood. She put her hands together and met the blade light head-on.

Kinuhata Saiai's slender arms made contact with the blade light. With a 'crack', an invisible armor shattered, and the blade light dissipated.

Kinuhata Saiai was a Level 4 great ability user, whose ability was 'Offense Armor' (Nitrogen Armor). She could use nitrogen to form an invisible nitrogen armor several centimeters thick around her body, which could defend and attack. Don't look at this girl's primary school student physique; in reality, she was a humanoid Gundam. Working in the Item organization made her a killing machine at only ten-something years old.

While the nitrogen armor shattered, Kinuhata Saiai pulled an iron can from her waist and quickly pulled the ring. With a 'pfft', the liquid nitrogen inside the can sprayed out, and Kinuhata Saiai formed a thicker nitrogen armor.

"What's going on?"

The golden-haired girl Frenda Seivelun on the side was completely confused. Her superpower was unknown, and she relied on explosives in battle. However, she didn't have a backpack or anything, and the bombs were likely carried within her ability.

Whoosh.

A man in a black windbreaker landed not far in front of the three girls. As soon as the man landed, a pale red air wave spread out, sweeping over Mugino Shizuri and the others.

Mugino Shizuri's long brown hair was blown up. At this moment, her pupils contracted rapidly, her heartbeat accelerated, and her muscles subconsciously relaxed.

Just as Mugino Shizuri was stunned, a bright blade light appeared before her eyes!

Almost subconsciously, Mugino Shizuri formed a green light barrier in front of her. This was the Meltdowner ability. The green barrier had high temperature, corrosion, decomposition, and other capabilities.

A long blade stopped abruptly in front of the green light barrier. The long blade was less than 30 centimeters from Mugino Shizuri's throat.

Su Xiao, holding Checking Zhan Long Shan, stopped the slash. Although Checking Zhan Long Shan could withstand the Meltdowner ability, its durability would drop significantly. The world had just begun; if Checking Zhan Long Shan was severely damaged, the subsequent battles would not need to continue.

Su Xiao recognized Mugino Shizuri. She was ranked fourth among ability users. Of course, this fourth place was official data and not too reliable.

Su Xiao jumped backward and sized up the three people in front of him.

After the initial exchange with the ability users, Su Xiao discovered a few points: First, the ability users' attack power was very strong, and there was no warning when attacking. Killing intent, hostility, etc., could not be sensed at all. Of course, this might be related to Mugino Shizuri's ability.

Second, the ability users' perception was very sharp, at least their dynamic vision was extremely strong. This might be due to long-term development of superpowers, with the brain running at high load, naturally producing the ability.

Third, the physical fitness of ability users was not too weak and would vary depending on the ability. Su Xiao had just used the active ability of aura release, which could cause 100 points + own willpower x 5 damage to the enemy. This damage ignored armor/magic resistance/shields/equipment defense.

Among the three enemies, the golden-haired girl, Frenda Seivelun, was coughing up blood, which already explained one thing: ability users were not that easy to die. If their physical fitness was only at the level of ordinary people, they would have been killed instantly by the damage from the aura release.

There were several possibilities for this. The strength of the superpower would increase life points or reduce damage to a certain extent. Su Xiao was more inclined to believe it increased life points.

If ability users were just a bunch of glass cannons, then the difficulty of this world would definitely not reach Tier 3.

After the initial exchange, Su Xiao gained a lot of information. As for the purpose of the opponent's arrival, he also guessed it was about right; it was very likely sent by Aleister Crowley.

In the alley, Mugino Shizuri stretched her hands forward, and a green barrier blocked the front, separating the alley. When the green barrier touched the wall, there were obvious traces of the wall being melted and decomposed.

"This guy is very wrong. Is this a superpower? He's simply a superman!"

Blood spilled from the corner of Mugino Shizuri's mouth. Her legs were shaking, and her intuition seemed to be telling her to run, to escape from here quickly. ===== CHAPTER 866 =====