Altis had made it up several floors in the building, stealthily killing several Neo Illuminus soldiers. Now he was following a man with a large sword down a long hallway on the outside of the building. The wall on his right was glass, while there were no doors anywhere nearby on his left. "Guardian operative, can you hear me?" Altis's communication system buzzed to life with the voice of an unfamiliar man.
"Umm... Yeah, hold on a minute," Altis said as the man turned and charged him. As the human brought his sword down, Altis slipped out of the way and brought his spear across, striking the man in the chest. However, the spear was stopped by the man's line shield. "So, they actually bother to keep some of you alive," Altis said to the man.
The man lifted his sword out of the ground and made a large, sweeping stroke, which Altis backpeddled away from, his line shield just barely being grazed by the sword. Rushing back in, Altis thrust his spear towards the man's chest again, this time his strike was intercepted by the man's sword. They pushed against each other, sparks flying from one another's blades. Realizing he was in no position to win the clash, Altis pulled his spear back and dodged away from the subsequent swing of the blade. Rushing back in, Altis swung his spear, striking the man hard in the shoulder, and heavily damaging his line shield. Slipping to the man's side, Altis quickly advanced, performing several rapid stabs which the man barely manged to deflect. One final blow struck the man in the chest, sending him back and flying out the window.
Sticking his head through the large hole, Altis saw a number of Neo Illuminus soldiers below him. At least, he assumed that's who they were, judging by the hail of bullets he barely steped back in time to avoid. Swapping his spear out, he drew a crossbow and leaned out the window, not bothering to use his slicer. Of course, a crossbow wasn't much more accurate, but he managed to cause the soldiers to scatter, at least. However, he then saw one of the soldiers had a bazooka, and was aiming it right where Altis was. Taking a few steps back, Altis lept through the window and out into the open air. Re-equipping his spear, he positioned himself on top of the handle. Gripping tightly, he focused a bit of his own internal photon energy into the weapon, which shot forwards of its own accord, sending Altis through the window of a building on the opposite side of the street. Looking back out, the building he was just in had collapsed partially, raining down on the soldiers below. Quickly slipping deeper inside the building, Altis focused back on whoever had contacted him, "This is Altis Durge. Who are you and how did you contact me?"
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