Harem Legion: Queens of the Apocalypse-Chapter 192 Outgunned, Outnumbered, Out for Blood

Chapter 192: Chapter 192 Outgunned, Outnumbered, Out for Blood

"Even if every bullet hit someone, we’d still not kill them all," one of the women muttered as she slid a magazine into her rifle.

Emily climbed a few steps higher, raised her binoculars toward the opposite ridge, then put them down. "We can’t keep going head-on. We need to find a way to contact the underground grain depot."

"Find what way?"

Sophia stood up, pulling out her own binoculars. "Magnus probably wishes we’d both drop dead right now - then nobody’ll be watching him."

In a moment like this, she still found time to mock him. But truth was, he was the first name in her mind.

"Then let’s just hold on for now."

Emily turned to look up the slope. "That mountain’s only half climbed, won’t be easy for them to catch up."

Fifty-three women gritted their teeth and pressed on. Each step was like driving their heels into bare stone - bone-deep pain stabbing upwards.

After some twenty minutes of climbing, Sophia was the first to reach the top. She looked over to the other side and her heart sank - more mountains.

Emily came up next, but the rock supporting her foot gave way. Sophia quickly grabbed her. Emily barely found her balance, instinctively clapping dust from her chest. She too took in the view across - heart chilled.

"Wait... Sophia, look there - "

Emily pointed downhill. Sophia followed her gaze and frowned. "No trees? Just rocks?"

"All rock..."

Emily murmured to herself. Her eyes lit up. She turned to shout, "Mission here! Get up here, quick!"

All fifty-three made it to the top. Emily pointed to a small rocky hollow not far from them and said, "Sophia, you’re fast. Toss a grenade into that pit there - see if we can break some stone loose. Then we chuck ’em down."

"Use rocks?" Sophia’s eyes brightened. She instantly pulled out a grenade. "Got it, on it."

With a few quick jumps, she landed in front of the pit - half a meter across, about a meter deep. Should do.

She pulled the pin and lobbed the grenade in, then sprang back up with a few quick hops, diving flat with the rest.

Boom. A heavy thud shook the ground beneath them. The mountain trembled. Sophia jumped up and took off down to the pit.

Dust swirled thick in the hole, rocks tumbled down the slope. Emily ran down after her. When the dust cleared, both of them looked slightly disappointed. Sure, it had opened a small cavity, but what it left behind were palm-sized rocks - nothing more, and not even many of them.

Wasted a grenade.

"Forget it, Emily. Let’s get moving."

They jogged downhill, fifty-three in all, reached the stream between the peaks, took off their helmets to drink, then started up the next rise.

*****

"Luxe, there are male soldiers upstairs. I..." The scout bit her lip. "I killed three. They probably know we’re here now."

Luxe tore off her helmet, eyes red with fury. Blood was boiling. "Five of you, use the Metal Crystals. Floor by floor. Kill anything male. No survivors!"

"But Luxe - what if some are students from the school? Wouldn’t we be killing the wrong people..."

"Kill a man and call it a mistake?" Luxe raised an eyebrow, sneering at the girl in front of her. "You listen up. If it’s a man, then it’s no damn good. And this is the women’s dorm. What the hell were they doing here, sightseeing? Use your heads - if there’s still something up there!"

Without waiting for a reply, Luxe crushed a Metal Crystal in her fist. "Move!" 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Her fifty-woman squad had been sent to find Emily and Sophia. They’d been ambushed on the way too.

But Luxe had been cautious. They spotted the artillery team ahead of time, crushed their Metal Crystals, and fought tooth and nail - took out over four hundred of the enemy.

Those soldiers hadn’t had time to restock their Crystals, so Luxe’s team hit fast and hard. But as they broke through, they ran headlong into the main Ridgebreak Battalion.

That was a whole different beast - those guys had Metal Crystal troops shielding them. Luxe’s team fought while pulling back, until they finally holed up inside Hanford Advanced Finance College.

Now, a thousand Ridgebreak soldiers had the dorm surrounded. Tight. An hour ago, they’d sent in five Metal Crystal scouts. Not a single one made it back out.

"Commander, should we send more in?" an adjutant asked.

The Ridgebreak Commander, Travis Nelson, stood at the base of his command vehicle, eyes on the dorm. Just last night he’d been fooling around inside, so he knew the place well.

"How many Metal Crystals we got left?" he asked, glancing at a wiry older officer. That was the logistics chief, over fifty, named York.

"Commander, thirty-two," York answered.

Travis exhaled through his nose. "Guns?"

York hesitated. His aide leaned in, whispering a few quick words in his ear. York’s brow tightened. He gave a heavy sigh.

"Yesterday, we sent out five hundred of our armed troops to chase the women. Then those girls showed up - wiped out our ambush team, four hundred gone. Half of them had guns..."

"I said, how many do we have now? Be exact!" Travis barked.

"Less than two hundred rifles left," York answered, sweat beading up on his forehead.

Travis was young, ruthless. That’s what lit the fire under his promotions - cold-blooded efficiency. No one missed the fact that several adjutants had already ended up dead under his command.

"Thirty-two Crystals. Two hundred guns. Heh..."

He smirked, reaching slowly for his holster. Panic flashed in York’s eyes. "Commander! This isn’t my fault - we’re all just..."

Bang!

The bullet never missed. But York was fast - he yanked the aide into the shot. The soldier took it in the chest. York lunged for his pocket, fingers brushing the Metal Crystal stuffed there.

Bang.

Second shot. He crumpled before he could get his hand inside.

"Ah, forget it..." Travis muttered, letting out a long breath. Seemed killing calmed him down. He casually handed his pistol to the aide beside him, who hurried to shove it back into the commander’s belt holster.

"They’ve got fifty inside. Handguns, rifles, plenty of ammo..." Travis said loud enough for everyone around to hear. "And us? We sent five in with Crystals. Not one made it out. So - "

He turned to the servant next to him. "You tell them. Why do you think that is?"