Apocalypse Monster
Chapter 160: The Siege of Rats
His group had entered the Dimensional Cave, they felt a slight strange feeling of pressure coming from all directions. The light that blinds the eyes also makes them feel uncomfortable and have to close it.
When the uncomfortable feeling had disappeared, they opened their eyes.
"Where is this?" Calista opened her eyes slowly.
Their field is now quite hard: a large cave with a diameter of twenty meters, many stalactites and stalagmites are very pointed. It was not strange that the pointed rocks could lead to death.
The walls of the cave were red, hundreds of meters in front of them were already nowhere to be seen, it seemed like the cave there was winding.
"Make sure there are no negative effects on your body, make sure everything is fine, starting from the body to the equipment and other small things." Natan reminded everyone while taking out the Skeleton Commander.
Vely was in the back row, but in front of Jia Meiya who was carrying heavy weapons. Vely focuses on the tools it carries, which are like tabs despite the size of the screen like a laptop.
The tool it carries has a function like Mapping. But simpler because it only captures points containing Mana, everything is red no matter the opponent or friend. But there is a countermeasure, all team members carry a special chip in their pants pocket, so in the tool carried Vely will be green.
Then, Mapping will capture everything and create a map within a range of one kilometer. Unlike this magic tool, which can only record places that have been passed.
"I— Natan, a hundred meters in front, behind a huge rock there is a monster." Vely told about the monster with his face reddened.
Natan continued to observe Mapping, and matched what Vely said. "Thank you."
Cit, Cit, Cit...
Suddenly they heard a rat-like squeaking sound coming from behind the rock Vely pointed at. Then from behind the stone, seen the head of a mouse that protrudes out. The rat had red eyes with a pair of sharp teeth, its head was enormous, and its body size was twice that of a cow. His tail was as sturdy as an iron whip.
Nathan frowned. "Moggle?"
"No, no, no!" Ayumi shook her head many times. "Moogle isn't like that, Moogle is so funny! He's not Moogle!"
Natan was silent without speech. Lately, he knows that Ayumi is very fond of Moogle characters in one of the fiction games. It was a white round rat with a red nose and vampire wings, and there was a red balloon on top of its head.
In fact, Ayumi asked a tailor in Armonia City to make Moogle dolls of different sizes: from the size of a palm to two meters.
"Yes!" Erina added, "Moogle is so funny! Not like that monster!"
"Yes! Brother's right!" Now, even Xia Feiya added.
Natan was completely speechless and did not want to tell the three of them that, the monster before him was indeed within the Moogle Rat Race.
Cit, Cit, Cit...
The Moogle Rat ran towards the group of eight people with its mouth drooling. The rat was emitting a red glow in his eyes, as if it had found prey.
The Moogle Rat was only level 400, proficient in speed and its attacks were relatively low, but with its speed it was what made one feel unsuitable.
Seeing the rats acting, they prepared a formation.
Erina was in the front row, with Olivia on the left and Natan on the right. Calista behind Erina alone. Vely, Ayumi and Xia Feiya were in the third row. Jia Meiya was in the back row, with Kuro and Kori helping on the left and right.
Kuro in the shape of a Lion King, Kori with the size of an eagle.
Although the enemy they are fighting can be killed easily at their current level, they will refrain from cooperating and work together to improve their cooperation without speaking.
Erina held tightly to the shield in her left hand to resist the rat attack without her skills. He wanted to try to hold it purely physical.
Bang out!
The head of the rat hit the shield that was about the same size as Erina's body. The rat was slightly dazed from the impact, making him slightly step back with an injured nose.
Erina took advantage of the opportunity, pulled the sword in her right hand to take a swing, then stabbed it forward with a normal strike.
The cit!
The mouse was badly injured in his left shoulder, red blood flowing like tap water.
Erina was still moving, making use of her small body, she was running in a slightly bent position. When he arrived under the head of the rat, he pushed the head of the rat with his shield.
The rat jerked almost to its feet when it was hit.
Then Olivia finally moved in front of Erina, she raised her right leg, kicking the rat's neck in full force.
With a loud noise, the rat was lifted several meters due to Olivia's kick.
Vely who had been getting ready with his bow, fired an arrow shot. The arrow with a number of more than ten was shot in just two seconds, piercing the body of a mouse whose fur was quite thick.
Bam! Bam!
The kick made a loud sound with air waves, making the rats dart backwards. Just when it had just arrived, Jia Meiya had already jumped up with a big weapon like the Escanor character. The weapon swung at him, hitting the rat using the back of the weapon.
Still in the air, Olivia twisted her body back in a horizontal position. Then as the rat was about to hit it, he swung his leg vertically down, kicking the mouse using the heel of his hind leg.
Boom up!
The rat darted down, smashing into the ground until it created a huge hole three times the size of the rat's own body.
Cit ... cit—
The rat tried to get back up with a trembling body, although it was eventually killed by an ice spear that fell from above it, piercing through its body until it pierced the rocky ground below.
Natan who did not attack and just observed, nodded her head with a faint smile. Their cooperation is still intertwined, and even looks more compact even though they have not hunted together for a long time.
"Preserve this cooperation. But must remain vigilant, our enemy is only one, maybe in the future there will be hundreds or even thousands."
Everyone nodded their heads, then Olivia and Calista switched places. This time, Olivia will act as a support, along with Vely who doubles as a supporter of long-range attacks and gives buffs or debuffs to opponents.
...
Everyone keeps moving forward with certainty. After stepping up to the end and arriving at the corner, they had only met three low-level monsters according to the Dimensional Cave (A).
There's only one road, it's a right turn.
Natan looked at Mapping with a frown on his forehead. "This passage is one kilometer long, and there are no monsters at all?"
"What's up, I— Natan?" ask Calista.
Ayumi and Erina clucked while shaking their heads. "Come on, we all already know about Natan's sister dating Vely's sister, Calista's sister and Olivia's sister. There is no need to cover it up like that" said Ayumi.
Jia Meiya nodded her head. "They're young."
Natan ignored them, and answered Calista's question, "I have the ability, throughout this passage there are no monsters. It's strange, the Dimensional Cave level is A, but so far the monsters we've encountered are only three. Even when I entered the Dungeon Tower, we met at least seven thousand to ten thousand."
"Has this Dimensional Cave been entered by someone else?" Natan looked back, looking at Vely.
Vely opened the magic tool like a tab, reading the information listed. "There are many Dimensional Cave around Chengdu City, everything is almost explored, but only here it is heavily guarded. This place was intentionally left for us."
Hearing that, Natan felt increasingly strange. He set his breath, then led everyone to continue entering. Now, Nathan is in the front row.
They continued to step up to seven minutes of ease, they saw the light that was in front of them getting bigger and bigger.
As they continued to walk, they had reached a room with a height of forties meters and a floor area twice that of a football field. Part of the wall, there are dozens of holes like where they came out at this time.
Natan opened Mapping, he saw that each hole had a passage of a different size, and everything exceeded the range of Mapping. That is, the passageways are more than a kilometer.
At that moment, suddenly there was a squeaking sound that echoed from every hallway.
Natan continued to see Mapping, but still did not catch any monsters. Until finally, the red dots had already entered his range.
Nathan looked back, then forward. "Go to the middle!" He ran into the middle with everyone.
If it continued to be in the passageway where they were, it would be extremely difficult to move, and it was possible that there were monsters that could not be scanned, and suddenly appeared behind. So, it was better to be in the middle despite being surrounded.
"If each passageway contained a hundred monsters, there would be at least six thousand monsters." Nathan had arrived in the middle, then raised his hand. "Bone Wall."
Bones sprung up on the ground about ten meters away from him, it surrounded them all forming a barrier.
Cit, Cit, Cit! The cit! Cit ... The cit!
The rats were seen communicating with each other in a loud, annoying voice.
When viewed from the ceiling, the rats moved quickly and clustered like white waves ready to drown their prey.
"Prepare!"
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