Cursed Edgerunner Chapter 13 (Patreon)

Channeling cursed energy through other objects was a good way to break said objects as Cursed Energy was quite literally just negative emotions made manifest into the world.

And that negative emotions did not work with normal weapons and such well. Even in this world of Cyberpunk where great advancement, especially in matters of combat, had occurred, had this changed.

But Aura... Aura was a game-changer in every sense of the word. So long as I had aura, my weapons woudn't break and be harmed.

And that most importantly included my implants as well!

A loud crack rang out as the large curse, which took the form of a slug-looking, fat humanoid figure with no legs had his head snap back as a two-pound tungsten slug shot at several hundred miles an hour hit him the head.

The slug in question shot from my wrist-mounted 'canon' was glowing the dark purple of my cursed energy, and in the slow motion of my activated Sandy, I saw the slug shoot through its head and back out of its head.

And the sight reminded me of something very important. If the curses or jujutsu sorcerers weren't top first grade or having their own Sandevistan. A good mach fuck you slug to the face would kill them all the same.

The curse roiled in agony as while my projectile launcher clearly did lethal damage to it. It was still a big ass monster, and it didn't seem ready to die so soon.

But only a single second had occurred in the time dilation-like effect as I then pulled out my razor wire from my monowire rings in my wrists.

I slashed past the cursed as he was still charging forward towards me.

The flat side of the monowire zipped around and caught itself on two metal poles on the other side of the suicide net he was charging me on.

I then jumped up and yanked myself with those wires up and over the curse with extreme speed and once I was behind him. I spun around pulling the mono wires into an X as he was still mindlessly charging forward.

And with my aura and cursed energy bracing and enhancing my strength. I retracted the monowires towards myself with the X catching the curse on it's chest.

With the lightning dust alloy monowire glowing with my cursed energy. It cut the monster into four pieces with a horrible hissing noise of fried flesh from the lightning dust flash, frying the monster as it passed through it.

Then I shut off my Sandy with an ache in my lungs, finally expanding as I just now remembered to breathe after all that.

"Shit... Can't forget to fucking breathe." I cursed as I gave the curse a dark look before I threw myself across the long platform as the Maelstrom goons from the trap house next door began rushing out.

And obviously, shooting at me for killing the fucking curse they were raising for whatever reason.

With the thick cover of a literal solid steel pillar that was one of the foundation pillars for the entire hab tower's many floors. I took a breath, and with a pin,g I pinged off of their shitty implants, especially their almost full facial death light and eye implants.

"Get fucked pyscho's." I cursed and with a flex I dug into their... Shitty ICE like an ice pick to their eyes and then the Maelstrom's infamous eye implant,s they loved to replace half their face with.

Began overheating as my deamon's infecting their cyberware brought them to overpower, blinding them and then loud pops began to ring out as the lights in their eyes literally exploded hurting them further.

Once they were blinded, I switched back on the Sandy... And I yeeted a small but high-grade Lightning Dust crystal at them.

Then in slow motion as it flew between them. I stepped out with my auto pistol and sent a spray of bullets into the lightning crystal.

And then with a violent, blinding crackle of elemental power. I watched the crowd of Maelstrom goons be fried by elemental lightning.

And by fried... I meant the resulting lightning bolt bounced between them like lightning towers and clearly killed them via their love of implants being their undoing.

Dropping the Sandy, I walked towards what looked like the leader of the Maelstrom gangsters and with a hum I kicked his large shotgun up into the air into my hand.

'Shiiittt... This guy was armed to kill some real dudes. Four gauge missiles shot out of a rail gun initiator to gain initial speed before the rocket shoots forward and then exploded upon entry and collision?' 

This was basically a 40k Bolter in as many words... If anything, this was actually a more dangerous Bolter due to the even larger caliber and the fact that I could sync up my cyberware to the shotgun to give me auto aim basically.

Still, its ammo was going to be... Stupidly fucking expensive but just having the shotgun itself was a treat.

Along with grabbing the shotgun, I quickly double-tapped all the gang-goons and ripped out their SD cards from their necks so I could hack into them later to empty any accounts they were tied to.

After that, I picked up this weird bullpup-style rifle that shot like sniper rifle-sized ammo. No weird add-ons so much, but it shot big ammo really fast and was easier to carry.

Almost looked a lot like a GM6 Lynx decided to have a child with a midget, but said child decided to be stocky as hell and was a bit of a short king with an attitude.

"Hands up merc!" A female voice spoke out firmly and I slowly raised my hands as I felt a powerful foriegn influence lock onto my implants. 

Not hostile, but clearly surrounding my own custom ICE, and I looked up to see the two NCPD elite officers I came across earlier.

One of them with their large helmets, was looking at me with an antenna extended up from her helmet while the other one had a massive hand cannon in her hands that I could easily see down the barrel to see that it was loaded with smart tracking rockets.

With my hands casually up, I spoke in a friendlier tone. "Hello, ladies. I hope you aren't trying to steal my bounty."

The two officer's shared a look before the smaller one said in a slighty odd voice past her helmet. "Officer Zhu Yuan, all downed Maelstrom gangsters do indeed have notable bounties to their names. Also registered Edgerunner Jake Bariss, did not harm any innocents. He is free to go."

And then my I blinked as several ringing noises hit my ears... As the small but clean bounties of a half dozen ganster's hit my accounts.

"Your reward has been dispensed, citizen. We will now secure this crime scene, then. Please leave." The 'Office Zhu Yuan' spoke firmly as she lowered her hand cannon more towards the ground.

I slowly lowered my hand, but I still said calmly. "Alright, I get that you guys are here and need to do your jobs. But I still have my own job here. The sex crime ring is just past that door, and in order for me to get my real pay day, I need to let them out of their cages."

The two cops shared a look before Zhu Yuan said firmly. "I am sorry if this puts you in a difficult position, but this is an official investigation now. Your interference as a free mercenary is against guide lines of the NCPD!"

I tensed a bit as the actual freeing the people of the sex crimes ring was my fucking payday. And I really didn't want to just give it up!

But then the smaller officer spoke in a more genial tone. "Ah, Officer Zhu Yuan. Flexibility in the modern era is key. One may bend and remain strong and upright. But being unbending will leave you nothing but broken in this cold world."

Then the smaller officer clearly looked at me with warning as she said calmly. "Also... I can't break through his first ICE layer. He likely isn't alone and has a Netrunner and support in the background. If his team decides to make a mess for a payday, are we all but stealing from them? We can only blame ourselves for our own downfalls."

There was a pause as the lead officer considered her words before she sighed and said helplessly. '"Fine... Go ahead, Edgerunner. But don't touch anything except money chits as I know better than to ask you not to take any laying around!"

I gave a slight bow of the head in agreement before saying genially. "Then Officer Zhu Yuan... It is good to work for you in this case. If you need help on a contract, please contact me at this number. And may I have the name of you officer? I would love to work with someone who knows how to play the game." I asked the noticeably smaller officer.

The smaller officer gave a small bow before saying calmly. "My name is Qingyi, just call me Officer Qingyi and I may in fact have some jobs for a merc of your talent. Finding the sex crime ring, dealing with their leashed cursed spirit and the small group of gangsters next door shows you have talent."

And thus I got the contact info of two cops in the elite sector of the NCPD, and without much fuss, I went in and freed the women, girls, and younger boys that were held in the cages and sent the details to the bounty sites to get my payment before I quickly beat a retreat.

As with my bank flush with some cash. Maybe I should pop back over to RWBY to pick up some meat to make some real fucking food. Also... After a couple of day's I couldn't help but wonder how full of dirty messages my phone was going to be!