My Ninja Girl 4 by Gideon Caldwell (latest novels to read .TXT) 📕

did the same, one of them able to use industria to lift a nun several feet in the air before launching her into one of the fountains, toppling the statue.

Micah returned his focus to reaching the vehicle that they had first spotted. He was just a few feet away when a man in an industria pack landed before him, his armored clothing telling Micah that the man was one of the elite monks.

The monk reared back to strike Micah with a glowing energy sword; Liza stepped in the way just in time to block it with her two blades, their weapons sparking. She held him back for just a moment, which allowed Micah to unload a series of quick shots into the monk’s torso.

The man’s armor blocked it from doing any lasting damage, and he was back up on his feet in a matter of seconds. Another monk attempted to strike them. Liza absorbed his blow with her right sword and redistributed the industria, which had the effect of flinging him backward.

While he would have helped her if he could, Micah was now forced to engage with a nun who had landed beside him, the woman with an energy weapon similar to his, albeit one with two spikes jetting off her knuckles, glowing green with industria. A couple of quick swipes should have finished the job, but something happened on her final attempt, the woman’s fist inches away from his face before she was blown backward.

Micah had done it; he had once again used the new power he had learned by lassoing her legs with an invisible cable of industria. He wasn’t as strong as Yuri, not able to fling an opponent thirty or forty feet away, but it had worked, and it helped their cause.

Is my usage amplified by adrenaline? Micah thought, taking a quick look down at his hand. There was no time to follow that rabbit hole, and he was just firing a shot at Liza’s opponent when his gatling gun fizzled out, signaling it was out of juice.

It was tedious, but Micah quickly dropped and opened his bag to go for a fresh charge pack. He clicked it into place, waited just a second for it to blink, letting him know it was ready. He fired on the feet of the monk engaging Liza, which threw her male opponent off guard to the point that she was finally able to bring him down.

One of Bunni’s victims, or perhaps Yuri’s, landed on the front of the vehicle that Micah and Liza were planning to use, cratering the window.

“That was supposed to be our ride…” Liza said.

“Sorry about that!” Bunni told her, her voice crisp and clear in the bucket helmet.

A different voice appeared in Micah’s bucket. “Listen up: this is Yuri, and it’s time we start fanning out. There will be more here any minute now, especially with the vehicles that we have wrecked. Good job, Micah, by the way. Reminder: we meet in Uyanga, at the shrine, as discussed. Micah and Liza, head toward the south, to the nearest station. We will do the same but head to the north, and we’ll also try to keep the heat on us so the two of you can get away. The idea is to…” Yuri grunted for a moment as she drove her sword to the opening beneath a nun’s bucket. “The idea is to blend in once we get out of here. Do that. Let’s make this happen!”

Micah didn’t like it, and he definitely didn’t want to separate himself from the three of them, but now wasn’t the time to question Yuri’s orders.

Another monk transport vehicle appeared in the sky above them and began lowering toward the courtyard of the nunnery, weapons on its undercarriage firing off a few blasts before returning to their ports.

Micah and Liza used the distraction of the landing vehicle to make their escape, the two helped by an industria-fueled push from Bunni and Yuri that forced the craft to topple over to its side.

They reached the street, and from there, they headed south.

Micah and Liza were a couple blocks away from the nunnery when she reached for his arm and stopped him. “We have a problem.”

“What’s that?” he asked, finally able to catch his breath.

“There isn’t a station here that links directly to Uyanga. To get there, we’ll have to travel down to Thunderhama, then take a transport sling up to Uyanga.”

“An extra step?”

She nodded.

“And the others?”

“They are closer to a station that connects. I’ll relay this to them.” Liza quickly fired off a message.

She was just finishing up when a pair of roaming monks and a drone spotted them.

Micah quickly fired his weapon at the drone, taking it out. But the monks had time to land, and as they did, Liza launched into action against them, the nun flourishing both of her swords to block their strikes.

Giving their opponents leverage was the fact they were boosted by their industria packs, which allowed them to fire down at them. Not one to be deterred, Micah aimed his weapon at one of the packs and squeezed the trigger grip, his blast connecting and sending the man into a streetlamp, which was followed by a spectacular flash of lights. The lamp came down with him, green energy sparking around it. A trashcan not far from where the lamp had landed quickly caught fire, and by the time the man was back on his feet, flames raged all around him.

Liza took down her opponent, and focused on the incoming monk. She spun just as he landed in front of her and brought her blades across the front of his chest, one of them actually cutting through his armor. A shot to the side courtesy of Micah brought the man down. Liza pressed both blades through his