"Kh." Clovis gritted his teeth as Melody and Kanaria's voices kept ringing in his ears.

"Clovis!"

"Oi, are you alright?!"

Clovis couldn't respond to them. He was glaring at the terrorist.

"What is this? To think there would be a weak boy daring to fight me." The terrorist snorted. Clovis's existence was like an ant to him, so it wouldn't really matter. He simply had to focus on killing the injured Tier 3 agent and the rest wouldn't really matter.

"You can hide your tier? Impossible." The injured guy was enduring the pain while pressing his wound.

"Your city should have handed over the mule and this wouldn't have happened." The terrorist snorted while walking toward the injured guy.

'The mule?' Clovis widened his eyes in shock. He had heard about this mule from the shopkeeper. He never thought that the terrorists were daring enough to do all this for the mule.

Then again, he heard that the mule had a lot of banned goods.

The question in his mind was answered the moment the agent spoke up.

"You are using a banned good to hide your tier."

Everything instantly clicked in his mind. The reason why the terrorists wanted the mule was because they wanted this person to smuggle all the banned goods for them, especially this item that could hide their Tier.

When that happened, the terrorists would have gotten another advantage.

Although he knew that the mule was a bad guy, the terrorists definitely couldn't get this mule.

Clovis saw that the other two were focused on fighting the two other Tier 3 terrorists. In other words, it was up to him to defeat or at least buy some time from this Tier 3 human before him.

It might be because of the terrorist being the chatter box or the injured guy trying to probe information even in that situation, but Clovis got everything he needed.

Clovis took a deep breath. If he couldn't calm down, it would be impossible to defeat this terrorist.

He took as much time as possible to lower his heartbeat.

Right before the terrorist stabbed the Tier 3 agent, Clovis rushed toward him.

"Hmm?! A useless ant." The terrorist harrumphed while swinging his dagger.

Because of Clovis's unique weapons, he only had a single long sword this time. So, his fighting style was a bit limited.

But it didn't matter. The moment he was about to reach the terrorist, he started looking a bit slower as he activated the Star Method.

Clovis waved his blade, striking not the dagger but the crossguard.

"!!!" The terrorist was shocked because he didn't expect that Clovis would be able to see through his movement and precisely strike that spot.

Clovis managed to overpower the terrorist's Tier 3 strength and it didn't seem like this opponent had a Muscle Affinity.

With him knocking the dagger away, Clovis could actually slash this guy. He felt sorry for the trauma, but if this guy wasn't eliminated, all of them would die here.

Sadly, when the sword was about to reach the terrorist's neck, the terrorist actually grabbed Clovis's wrist.

Clovis shuddered, realizing that he was caught. In fact, he could see that the terrorist had dropped the Tier 3 agent and kicked him to the side while he caught his dagger.

With the terrorist's attention locked on him, Clovis knew that he had messed up.

The guy raised his foot while Clovis dropped his other hand. He grabbed the terrorist's knee to stop him from hitting his stomach.

However, Clovis's hand went numb just from blocking it. Since he was blocked, the terrorist just threw Clovis to the side.

Kanaria was thoroughly angered as he aimed at this terrorist's head.

'How dare he hit Clovis?' Kanaria thought while pulling the trigger.

To her surprise, Melody suddenly pushed her down. "Get down!"

A series of gunshots filled the mall, alarming everyone.

Both Clovis and the terrorist raised their heads. It seemed that they thought the same thing but from different perspectives.

On the top floor, Melody was shielding Kanaria with the coat they grabbed from the store. There were five people shooting them, which made the situation increasingly dangerous for all of them.

"Me and Melody will manage. You have to defeat him, Clovis." Kanaria was frustrated. She wanted to help Clovis, but these guys prevented her from doing so.

Melody said, "We'll retreat and reorganize ourselves. You are the only one who can handle that Tier 3 terrorist. We will make sure that these guys can't rain down their bullets on you or the hostages."

Clovis never thought that they would be pushed this much. The terrorists had set up trap after trap, so he shouldn't feel surprised by just an ambush.

Clovis finally knew the difference in fighting style between the beasts and humans.

On the one hand, Clovis knew that he had to rely on that mysterious feeling to fight a Tier 3 human. On the other hand, he didn't plan to wait for it.

"Huu…" Clovis's expression turned serious, looking at this terrorist.

"You can't fight him. Run!" The Tier 3 agent shouted. Although he didn't say it, Clovis had shown enough to warrant his respect. So, he had to run. "They don't have a lot of time."

The terrorists knew that there would be another team sweeping in to rescue the hostages. So, they indeed didn't have a lot of time left if they wanted to retreat successfully.

However, this Tier 3 terrorist ran toward Clovis, thinking that he could kill this kid swiftly before ending the agent's life.

Clovis raised his sword once again.

'I have to see much slower than before.' Clovis took a deep breath.

The terrorist swung his dagger multiple times, changing from stab to slash and vice versa. In just a few seconds, he had delivered more than twelve attacks.

Meanwhile, multiple clicking sounds echoed in everyone's ears. Clovis was slower than him, which caused the dagger to hit him twice on his arms and once on his shoulder.

However, the terrorist suddenly jumped back when he felt a sharp pain coming from his left shoulder.

Clovis actually managed to injure him when he was only a Tier 1 human.