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Meanwhile, Decruda, the man which had caused such alarm before, having singlehandedly dispatched most of an entire unit, sat around in some alley. Guess what time it was?

LUNCH TIME!

And what did he have?

The drums rolled as he fished around in his various pouches and pockets, until he pulled out... a dead squirrel. Well, it should have been that super squirrel from before, but since it had succumbed to the neurotoxin, which of course, was designed and normally used for meta's, it was like an overdose, and apparently, the squirrel had already suffocated to death when the poison shut down its muscles and nervous system.

Oh well. He snatched a garbage can lid from the side and lay it across his lap as he stuck the scimitar into the dirt and began cutting away, humming merrily to himself.

"To the Hells with this place."

Enough was enough. If it was this much trouble just to reach the damned mausoleum, it wasn't worth it. Nor was the cost of her life. Sure, her god may be pissed at her that she failed again to get inside of Lament, but she wasn't going to get herself killed from the endless number of seemingly instantaneously moving guard patrols. For a place that was isolated and had only one entrance - the elevators which were still turned off - a lot of guards seemed to find their way down here pretty quickly. Either that, or they just generally hung around in the Underground.

Lilith spoke a word and vanished.

Little did Decruda know that he WAS being watched, and had been for quite some time by a sniper, armed with a thermal scope, atop a building a couple thousand meters away from his current position. After he'd checked in with the large number of patrols in the area, and told them the location of the threat, they'd slowly moved into a massive ring around his location.

More than one hundred and fifty separate, heavily armed guards were already in position around Decruda's location, hidden behind several buildings out of his viewing and hearing range. They had every type of Runic Round in Lament's arsenal among them, as well as at least one of every type of weapon Lament's Guard had to offer. Some were in the streets, others were on the rooftops, crouched and waiting for the signal to open fire on the target.

Then, as Decruda knelt down to draw in the dirt, the sniper would pull the trigger on his rifle, and a single sniper round would speed towards Decruda's form at well over the speed of sound. It would reach his body before the sound of the bullet firing would even be heard, aiming to puncture him in his back, and through the rough location of his heart. The sniper had hand picked his rounds for this location, and had just about given up hope that anything would show itself. Guess it was his lucky day...

Waiting wasn't her favorite thing to do either, it sucked, but a lockdown was a lockdown, there was no getting around it.

"Trust me," she sighed,"It's as dull as sawdust."

She put her righ elbow on the table and slumped to the right, supporting her right cheek with her palm and giving Zetsumeii, then the window, a bored stare. She reached into her coat and pulled out a small book, the one she had taken from Eri, throwing it to him.

"Read a book," she said,"It's a magic book or something, I was never too good with spells."

((Soooo~ This pretty much interrupts all previous actions. You're supposed to wait for people to post, not just ignore them and carry on.))

This would've been all good and well, had he not had some spells of his own planned. Specifically, there were three spells.

The first, Counterspell, effectively negating her little death spell. This spell was exceptionally effective because ironically it was un-counterable. The second, Chain Magic was also very useful in this situation because it basically attached another spell to a previously cast one, in this case Counterspell. This made his next spell also uncounterable and on a sidenote, unavoidable.

So, what was this final spell?

Nullify Magic. It's name was fairly descriptive, it cut off her ability to cast magic. Unfortunately for him, the effect of Chain Magic meant his magical ability was now sealed temporarily also. They really had no choice but to duke it out the old fashion way.

He decided to start this off by running at her and swinging the sword diagonally (from his top right to his bottom left) across her chest.

The stranger in the armor's patience is growing thinner by the minute. How long? How long before he can enter?

???: "Is there any way I can pass these gates while alive and unfettered?"

There is more frustration than fear in his voice now, and his eyes seem to pierce into the guard he pins with his wrathful gaze.

No.

It was a simple answer to a simple question.