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Chapter 20: Squad Outcast Expands

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Phoenix scaled the ruined skyscraper like a crack-addicted panther, her steel-toed boots biting into crumbling reinforced concrete.

High above, the S-Rank Obsidian Wyvern screeched, unleashing a torrent of black plasma fire that dissolved three top floors into molten glass.

"Toby! Fire the fucking tether!" Phoenix roared over the deafening wind.

THWACK-BOOM!

A thick star-iron cable shot through the smoke, impaling the Wyvern’s armored left shoulder. Phoenix grabbed the line, activated her Dragon-Blood core, and yanked herself upward into the sky like a kinetic missile.

As she vaulted onto the Wyvern’s massive back, her eyes caught something unexpected stuck under the beast’s left wing.

It was a guy. A ridiculously ripped, silver-haired guy in heavily dented S-rank silver paladin armor, pinned against the Wyvern’s scales by a massive jagged bone-spike. Blood was dripping down his chin, but his glowing blue eyes were burning with pure, stubborn defiance as he tried to jam a broken broadsword into the beast’s side.

[TARGET DETECTED: KILLIAN VANCE — S-RANK SOLO SENTINEL]

"Well, well, well," Phoenix purred, casually strolling across the roaring Wyvern's thrashing back as if she were walking down a runway. "What’s a handsome piece of eye candy doing taped to a giant flying lizard?"

Killian gritted his teeth, wiping blood off his jaw, his voice a deep, gravelly rumble. "I came to solo the trials. The bastard pinned my arm. Get out of here, girl—its mana-shield will vaporize you!"

"Girl?" Phoenix chuckled, popping her knuckles. "Sweetheart, I'm the motherfucking rescue team."

She grabbed the four-inch-thick bone-spike pinning his arm, planted her foot on the beast's spine, and leveraged her Dragon-Blood strength.

CRACK-THUD!

With a terrifying roar of pure physical violence, Phoenix ripped the spike straight out with her bare hands, shattering it into splinters.

Killian gasped, falling forward into her arms. Despite being a towering six-foot-two heavy tank class, Phoenix caught him effortlessly with one arm, pulling him against her chest like he weighed nothing at all.

Killian blinked up at her, his jaw dropping open as he looked at this F-rank Guide holding him like a damn damsel in distress. "How... how the hell are you that strong?!"

"Eat your vegetables and drink S-rank dragon blood," Phoenix grinned, winking at him. "Hold on tight, silver boy. I'm taking this oversized pigeon down."

She yanked two star-iron EMP canisters off her belt, shoved them directly into the bleeding wound where the spike had been, and slammed her fist onto the detonator.

BOOOM-BZZZZZZT!

A massive wave of blue electricity surged through the Wyvern’s internal organs, shutting off its S-Rank Mana-Shield instantly. The monster shrieked, folding its wings and plunging into a terminal tailspin toward the concrete ruins below.

"Toby! Glider pads!" Phoenix yelled into her comms.

She grabbed Killian around the waist, booted herself off the falling beast’s back, and deployed two high-density energy parachutes right as the Wyvern slammed into the city square with a catastrophic, earth-shattering KABOOM!

Phoenix landed on her feet with a smooth, cat-like crouch, casually depositing a flushed, wide-eyed Killian onto the pavement.

Toby ran over, holding his heavy pliers. "Boss! That was insane! You picked up an S-rank Sentinel like a bag of groceries!"

"Hey, he's good for the squad aesthetics," Phoenix laughed, stepping onto the twitching Wyvern's neck and driving her spear directly into its exposed chest core.

CRUNCH!

[NOTIFICATION: S-RANK OBSIDIAN WYVERN ELIMINATED.] [POINTS AWARDED: 10,000.] [CURRENT SCORE: SQUAD 'OUTCAST' – 15,800 POINTS]

Killian sat on the rubble, staring at the smoking crater of the Boss Beast, then up at Phoenix standing triumphantly over it, her dark brown eyes glowing with fierce crimson fire.

"I am Killian," he grunted, pushing himself up, his eyes locked on her with sudden, intense respect. "I was Travis’s cousin... until I realized he was a pathetic coward. I'm done with Class A." He extended a gloved hand toward Phoenix, a rare smirk touching his lips. "If you'll have me, I want in on Squad Outcast."

Phoenix took his hand, pulling him up into a tight, lingering handshake. "Welcome to the shitshow, silver boy. Rule number one: Toby holds the money, I break the bones, and we don't take shit from anyone."

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