After doing a tactical retreat Miko returned to his base in the district.

“Don, you were too reckless! How could you move with only a few hundred people?!”

The moment he returned he was met with the worried shout of Sola.

Miko showed a wry smile in response.

“I told you. I was only going to do recon. I had no intention of engaging in a battle to the death with Sebas.”

“Then what of these injuries?! This doesn't look like something you would get from a simple recon mission!”

Sola aggressively retorted.

“Calm down, Sola. You're acting like my woman rather than my subordinate.”

Miko said while rubbing her head.

He no longer paid her worried behavior much attention and entered his office.

After closing the door, Miko took a seat and breathed a sigh of relief.

He held his arm which was trembling vigorous and showed a pained smile.

(Does it hurt?)

Tiamat asked with a worried tone.

“Like a motherfucker.”

Miko said with a self-mocking tone.

(This is the result of possessing too many contrasting bloodlines. You attempting to demonize your soul by absorbing those soldiers souls after killing them caused a huge backlash in your body,despite you inheriting Beleth blood. No, it might be because you forcibly took too much of his blood that its clashing with your divine blood and thus disrupting the natural balance in your body. Because of this, demonizing your soul will be an extremely hard and pain process for the current you. Your only option is to wait until your body is fully like mine or Beleth’s, and then slowly modify your body to handle the demonification.)

Tiamat explained.

Miko thought about Tiamat’s words for a while before nodding.

“I trust you, so I'll follow your advice.”

Miko said as he forced his arm to stop trembling.

Miko's words made Tiamat smile.

(Rest for a day and let your body recover before going off to find Sebas again.)

Miko nodded.

He slowly closed his eyes and entered a coma-like sleep.

The sun rose to signaled a new day in the city. Normally at this time the city would come to life as those working would've been preparing to head out, and those going to school would've just awoken up. But today's sunrise was greeted by the tense atmosphere of the city.

Those who live near the Night District were especially tense, as they could hear the sounds of explosions echoing in the distance.

The war in the 11th District continued all through the night with barely any pause between the explosions.

Many citizens could even see the lights caused by the explosions brighten up the night sky every now and then.

The winner of this war would decide the future of the city, so no punches were being drawn from either side.

“Ha…haha..ha.”

Somewhere near the route that led to the 5th District, Ishma laid on a mountain of scrap metal while laughing weakly.

“Boss, the enemy was successfully repelled because of your strength, what are your next instructions?”

A gang member asked.

Ishma sat up and wiped the blood from her mouth corner.

“Isn't that obvious? We're going to hunt them down.”

She looked at the gang member.

“You guys are ready to go?”

He nodded.

“Thanks to you giving us a few hours to rest, we're ready to go at any time.”

“I didn't give you guys time to rest, I just wanted to clash all those tanks by myself. Fighting those things is pretty fun.”

She sprung to her feet.

“If you're all ready then let's move out.”

She looked around.

“Where's my bike?”

“It was destroyed when you crashed it in a tank before flipping it with your hands.”

“Ah, you're right. Well, I could just use my wings to fly, but I want a bike.”

At that moment, Ishma heard something approaching from far away.

“Hm?”

She turned to the direction the sound was coming from and released her crow wings.

Eyes appeared on them and stared into the distance.

Ishma saw a massive jet black vehicle approaching them.

“What the hell is that?”

She asked.

She took to the skies to take a closer look.

“Hm?”

The moment she took to the air she was saw something shining on the vehicle.

And then-

*Boom!*

“Guh?!”

Ishma suddenly felt like she was hit by a flying mountain, and was blown away.

*Boom!*

She crashed through several buildings before crashing into the ground.

“Cough! Cough! What the hell?!”

Ishma quickly got to her feet.

When she stood up she realized that something was stabbed into her stomach. She pulled it out and saw that it was a giant bullet.

“This must've been fired from that vehicle and hit me square in the stomach.”

Ishma spoke to herself as she held the crushed bullet.

“Too bad my skin was far too tough for it to pierce me.”

She crushed the bullet in her hand and flew towards where she saw the vehicle.

*Boom!*

She was once again hit by an impossible to see bullet.

“The samething won't work twice.”

However, this time Ishma was hit intentionally as she stopped the bullet with her hand. Like the previous one it was crushed the moment it hit Ishma.

“Now that I remember, Edward was talking about some powerful tank or car or something that we should avoid.”

Ishma looked down on the Nemean Armored car.

“This must be it.”

She then showed an excited smile.

“I was caught off guard but it was still able to push me so far away with one shot. That's an accomplishment that you should be proud of even in death!”

Ishma rushed towards the armored vehicle with a crazed expression. In response, dozens of guns emerged on the car’s body.

The dozens of guns fired hundreds of giant bullets towards Ishma.

“Hahahaha!”

Ishma swung her arm with a crazy laugh.

*Boom!*

To Ishma’s surprised her arm was only able to cut through half of the shots better being overwhelmed.

“Guh?!”

The bullets hit her all over her body and she was blown away without a way to stop.

“Goddammit!”

Her eyes changed to those of a demon and her body was covered with dark green aura.

She released a roar so loud that the ground shook and even started to crack.

She swung her hand and all the bullets that were pushing her back were cut into two.

She fell out of the sky and landed on the ground.

“Shit….I underestimate its firepower. If it was anyone else they would've probably died just now.”

The attack that Ishma just received was enough to heavily damage or kill anyone [X Class] and under.

Meaning that even Miko would've died instantly if he had took that attack head on like her just now.

The only reason Ishma was able to come out without a scratch was because she was originally [XX Class].

Even though she was now reduced to a sword, she still retained her natural durability.

Long story short, the Nemean series armored vehicle wasn't enough to kill her. However that didn't mean that Ishma could defeat it.

She was only as strong as the current Miko. Her strength depended on his, and it was obvious that Miko didn't possess the enough strength to directly clash with the armored vehicle.

She couldn't defeat it, and it couldn't defeat her. A stalemate.

Even so-

“This should be fun!”

Even though the fight would naturally come to a stalemate Ishma was eager to test the limit of this famous monstrosity.

“No one interfere! In fact you all should head back, I'll handle the rest!”

Without waiting for her subordinates to answer Ishma rushed towards the armored car again.

*Boom!*

It fired a storm of bullets at her like before, however Ishma was going all out from the start.

Dark green aura swirled around in her palm and took the form of a spear.

“Try this!”

Ishma took a step forward and threw the spear with all of her might.

*Boom!*

The spear hit a bullet and suddenly everything around it came to a stop. The space around the spear suddenly started twisting along with the bullets.

Crushing sounds were heard at the end as the bullets and spear disappeared into a space distortion.

Ishma's speed suddenly increased explosively and she instantly appeared in front of the armored car.

She drew her arm back and threw a powerful punch.

*Boom!*

The armored car was forced back as its wheel skidded on the road.

“Tch! It's hard!”

However Ishma wasn't able to dent it in the least.

The armored car suddenly shot forward and a giant drill appeared at the front. The drill gave off a red glow as it spun.

The armored car was so fast that Ishma didn't have the time to dodge. She focused all her strength in her lower body and stopped the drill with her bare hands.

“Ugh!”

Ishma was forcibly pushed back as her hands tried to grip the drill.

Sparks fell from her hands clashing with the drill, and her feet destroyed the road as she was constantly pushed back.

“Don't fucking underestimate me!”

*Boom!*

With a roar Ishma suddenly crushed the drill and caused it to stop.

“Haaaaaaa!”

She lifted the vehicle by the drill and flung it behind her.

She turned around to attack it, but was shocked by the sight of the vehicle gently landing like it was a leaf.

“The fuck?! Are you a cat or something?!”

The armored vehicle shot forward while firing countless lasers at Ishma.

“Ohhhhh!”

Ishma roared and punched the lasers away while rushing to meet the vehicle head on.

*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

The lasers deflected by her punches destroyed everything they came in contact with and quickly wrecked the entire neighborhood.

Ishma jumped, spun, and swung down her heel like an axe.

*Boom!*

The ground under the armored vehicle shattered as it sunk into the ground.

A nozzle suddenly emerged from inside the armored car and rested itself on Ishma's chest.

“Fuck off!”

Before it could fire, Ishma crushed the nozzle with her hand and caused it explode from the inside.

There was now a hole in the armor. Ishma didn't miss this chance and thrust her sword arm inside.

“Die!”

Green electricity rushed inside and caused the entire vehicle to lit up green.

Anyone could tell that anyone inside it would be electrocuted to death in an instant.

However-

*Boom!*

“Cough?!”

Spikes suddenly shot out and stab into Ishma's stomach, but because it was unable to pierce her it felt like she was hit by several powerful punches.

She was lifted into the air, and before she could even react missiles were fired at her.

*Boom!*

The blast caused by the missiles furthered destroyed the surroundings and caused a huge pillar of fire to raise up into the sky.

“….”

Ishma fell on the ground with her entire body charred black.

Shortly after she silent sat up.

Flames of anger were burning intensely in her eyes.

Just as she was about to move against the Nemean armored vehicle once again, a message was received on the earpiece she was wearing.

“….Oh?”

After hearing the message, Ishma's smile became extremely cruel.

“Roger that, Edward.”

The dangerous aura around her increased drastically.

“Now you piece of junk, let's settle this!”