[Grandora City]
As the battle goes on, desperation begun to appear on Diez face, as he swung his sycthe at Kentaro, only for it to miss and hit nothing. Due to that Kentaro used this chance to gather flames within his sword and blast all of them towards Diez in a point blank range to his face.
However Diez instantly back away after realizing that his attack had missed, causing Kentaro's attack to miss its target.
In response to that Diez charged once more as he gathered mana unto his sycthe and sent a powerful mana wave towards Kentaro which literally blew off the top of the building from which they stand off.
But despite such destruction, Kentaro managed to blitz behind Diez right at the exact moment he had made his attack avoided being hit by him.
In just one slash from behind, more of Diez armor got chipped off, causing Diez to be enraged and twist his body to kick Kentaro. However this kick was squarely blocked by the latter, as he flew to the side enduring the pain from the shock of the attack.
Even though Kentaro manage to block that attack, the force from such kick sent shivers all over Kentaro's body, which literally somehow broke a few bones despite succefully blocking the attack.
Of course in response to that when Diez quickly followed up by charging towards him, Kentaro pushed the pain away to the side, as he swung his sword using his broken arm and sent a huge wave of white flames towards Diez which caused a major explosion when it contacted Diez Mana wave.
In this moment the pressure was on Kentaro, after all he felt like the time was almost up, and the dealer was about to pop out. He doesn't know how much time he have left but seeing the state of Diez now, it seems he has no intention of going down like this at all.
Unknown to him Kentaro has only a little about 3 minutes to take down Diez before the dealer pops out again. Not knowing this just made him feel pressured even more, as he forced himself to move and cut the smoke that appeared before him when his attack collided with Diez attack.
But the moment he made that attack, diez suddenly popped out behind the smoke as he swung down his sycthe which was barely blocked by Kentaro with great effort.
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While Kentaro and Diez battle was happening right infront of everyone, the command room naturally saw everything on the screen, as they saw one of the member of the terrorist group is fighting the enemy at the risk of his life.
Based on how they look, Kentaro was reaching his limit as he was giving it all to kill the enemy. However for some unknown reason, he seemed to be in a rush unlike his usual bravado. Such a situation was something unprecedented for themselves.
In fact at the very beginning, they have little hopes that the people they have captured and hidden beneath the prison world of Agartha, would actually help them defend their home.
Since they were naturally enemies, they expect some rejection on the side of the prisoners. However surprisingly they received news that their worst problem the terrorist group R.E.A.P.E.R.S, would actually help them. Such living proof was now right infront of them as one of their members is heavily fighting agaisnt the enemy.
"Don't just watch! Aim the cannons near their vicinity at the enemy fighting one of the members of the terrorist group. Tell all snipers nearby to also aim at him... once the coast is clear and the member of the terrorist group got away from the firing range of the cannons, all weapons would then fire everything they got at the enemy, understood?"
"Sir yes sir!"
Under Head General Alex command, none of the personnel would have the guts to disobey as they can't afford to make a mistake where their life was on the line.
While all manner of battle was happening all over the city, Head chief Oliver was somehow pained upon looking at the city which he governed for such a long time. In fact he had already considered this place his own home, so seeing it in such a situation, he couldn't help but get hurt.
"The city..."
Seeing Oliver's expression Luitenant Owen simply resonated with his feelings as he too have the same expression when the U.S shelters have been destroyed one by one by the enemy's wave. Seeing your home being tarnished by the enemy like that, anyone would feel hurt especially since a hue amount of people are dying in places that cannot be seen.
Even though no one wanted to look at it, no one could deny the number of casualties that is being projected on the screen. As this war goes on, more and more people are getting killed without much remorse. In this moment a total of 549 casualties have been calculated, from their side.
Even though this numbers are far less than the casualties on the enemies side, this was still a huge number since this also counts the people who weren't able to evacuate near the shelters.
Their resources and military was limited, while the enemy forces seemed endless.
In that moment for an fortunate time a huge explosion rung out which blasted Kentaro away and Diez suddenly gaining an immense boost in power. Unknown to the command room, the dealer had finally shown up and had pulled an unexpected card.
[Joker card (9x)]
This card indicates that Diez would be able to use all four cards Heart, Diamond, Spade, Clover, at 9 times the intensity. So not only did this card heal him he was 9x durable, 9 times stronger, and 9x destructive. The situation that Kentaro had feared the lost had finally came true.
In that moment as Diez sent his attack in a form of energy blast coupled with his enhancement, Kentaro has no way of defending it as the light overwhelms him to the point that he nearly accepted his death.
However surprisng enough, someone appeared before him by opening a space time rift portal infront of him and Maria one of the members of the terrorist group had appeared out of the portal, as she opened up another portal infront of her and behind Diez.
Just like that her portal absorbed all of the attack that came from Diez, and have that powerful attack directed back at him, causing a huge explosion as Diez received his very own attack.
As if that wasn't enough Mark Salazar another member of the Terrorist group popped out of Maria's portal near the enemy and begun releasing high frequency waves toward Diez.
Of course Diez was completely unaware what these frequency waves can do to him especially since it didn't hurt him at all. Aside from his attack that he received hack which somehow cracked his armor, the frequency attack did little to nothing to him as it simply bounced off his armor.
Unknown to Diez the frequency attack that Mark did is actually targeting his armor. Even though his armor and skin durability was high due to the dealer pulling a good card, all of them are still made up of atom that made it possible to achieve such durability. However with the frequency that Mark is doing now, he is unknowingly breaking down this atom, causing Diez durability to break down rapidly and making him as frail as possible.
Without understanding that, Head General Alex saw through the terrorist intent as he finally gave put the order to fire.
"Now!!! Fire everything at that enemy! This is our chance while he's weakened!"
Just like that, all ranged attacks in the area was aimed at him, which was soon followed by a huge explosion that shook the city.