Apocalypse Monster
Chapter 186: The Journey Home
He dodged the attacks of tongues that moved freely like snakes, darting through the air and destroying the trees.
"It's too hard to fight in a swamp like this." Natan decided to retreat first by stepping on the Mammoth Tank that was lined up behind him.
"There is no need to attack conventionally. I have the advantage, why hold back?"
He knows what the advantage is, but sometimes he doesn't use it. Assassin, he could kill in the dark; marksman, he could kill from a distance; Necromancer, he could deploy his army to attack on his own and he chose to relax. But he did it himself, fighting with his bare hands and sword during the day.
After training with Brianna, he no longer relied on his bare hands when killing. After all, he already had an opponent capable of maintaining his close combat ability, so he could use other abilities when killing monsters.
Natan continued to jump backwards until standing at the top of the tree. He spread out his hands as he looked down, looking at the monster with a condescending look. "Skeleton Squad! Rise up!"
Boom up!
A Skeleton Squad of 1,260 came in the swamp, resulting in a violent explosion that shook the swamp, knocked down the trees and evaporated the swamp water until it dried up.
Natan stood on top of Groot and controlled all the raging skeletons.
Spears of fire shot out in all directions, burning all the existing trees. A huge rock rose from the depths of the ground, then fell like a meteor after burning up in the air. The flakes of ice fell like rain, freezing all the monsters before smashing into pieces.
In just a matter of seconds, Natan had already killed thousands of monsters.
Natan smiled faintly at the destruction he was making. "Although it doesn't feel like fighting with your bare hands, killing in this way brings its own pleasure."
He continued to go inside and kill other monsters. It's boring killing this way, but he enjoys seeing this destruction.
There was no need to bother while killing monsters, there was no need to waste a lot of energy, but the results he got were thousands of times over. It saves time, and he can relax.
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—The Next Day—
Their group decided to return to Longquan Mountain after adventuring outside for some time. It was time to develop even more extensive safe zones, at least until it took control of the entire Sichuan Province.
The return of them did not use the Heavenly Eagle or Teleportation, but rather the Giant Castle. However it was not transported using the Giant Knight, but the Bee Knight and Fire Dragon.
This method is very dangerous if you have an accident, but Brianna himself asked for it because he wanted to feel flying using Giant Castle.
Natan could not resist it, after all he did want to rest on the way. As of right now, he was fishing in an artificial lake, or rather referred to as a fish pond.
"Can!" Ayumi pulls the fishing hook, and gets a fish as big as an adult's arm.
Natan looked at the bucket beside Ayumi; it was filled with fresh fish, and saw the bucket beside her that was still quiet, not even a small fish was there.
"Damn! my DEX and LUK are high, why can't you catch a single one?"
"Ck, tsk, tsk!" Brianna shook her head. "It's pure ability and luck, it has nothing to do with that kind of attribute."
Natan looked at the bucket next to Brianna, and saw that the bucket was also still empty. "But, Mother's bucket ..."
"You didn't see anything!" Brianna interrupted Natan and did not let him finish his words.
Natan fell silent and refocused on fishing.
The byurr!
Natan sees a fish as big as a motor jumping from the lake, along with Brianna who stands and pulls the fishing line.
"Mom can!" Brianna gave a cold snort and patted his chest, boasting of his achievement of successfully catching the biggest fish in the lake.
Natan ignored him and turned to the right looking at Erina. "You're not fishing? Usually you'll be with Ayumi fishing together."
Erina shook her head. He looked up at Natan by pulling one of the corners of his lips forming a strange smile.
"If Erina goes fishing, Kak Natan's self-esteem will be further ruined."
Nathan felt pain in his heart when he heard it. He wrapped his right hand around Erina's neck while rubbing his fist on Erina's head. "Can you talk like that to your sister?"
Erina pushed Natan's hand and broke away from her embrace. He rubbed his head with both hands. "Sister, does it hurt?"
"Those hurts more than ..." Nathan stopped and swallowed back his words. He almost spoke “Manas sicker than working as a porter in the Black Eagle Guild?"
If she really said such a thing, surely Erina would think back about her parents sacrificing themselves to be eaten by monsters so that Erina could escape. Erina would also remember all the suffering she experienced such as scavenging trash, working hard to almost die just for a piece of bread.
Natan pulled Erina, grabbed her and rubbed her head gently. "Is this the one who's sick?"
Erina did not know why Natan was suddenly like this, but she did not reject him and closed her eyes. It's been a long time since I've been swiped like this. While still adventuring three people, every night he would sleep on Natan's lap or lean back, it made him feel calm and forget all the problems.
Nathan looked to his left at Brianna. "Mother, why don't pets drop items? Not even an exp was obtained, and the corpse did not disappear."
Brianna looked at Natan with a fish-eye look like she was looking at a fool.
"Mother ..." Nathan complained.
"How does your son not know such a simple thing? Pets, why keep them? For meat, if the corpse disappeared, what would it eat? Dropping items and meat items? The results will be less. The exp? If raising animals can gain experience, no one kills monsters, everyone prefers breeding."
Natan was silent and felt like a fool. No, no, no! I'm not stupid, I pretend I don't know because I want your attention. Yep! that'sthat's him!
Erina looked at Natan's face, then she took a fishing rod. Just as it touched it for a few seconds, the fishing rod trembled. He pulled it immediately and lifted it, looking a fish as big as an adult's arm that was raised for biting his hook.
"Erina can!"
Nathan was silent, his eyes twitching. He felt his life was very low, he saw Brianna, his mother who had been the same as himself, now had managed to catch the fourth fish. Ayumi, over two dozen.
"Mother, today Mother has not accompanied me to practice. Let's practice now." This was all he could do so that Natan would not see his mother constantly getting fish.
Brianna naturally knew what Natan was thinking as she looked at the empty bucket. "Today is off, I still want to fish. We need hundreds of fish, I want to cook a lot of dishes today."
Natan was silent, she sighed. He gave up, he stood up and approached his wives sitting under a tree covered in mats.
"Fishing is exhausting." Natan threw herself between the three of them and closed her eyes.
Calista took the pillow, placed it under Nathan's head.
"In the future, will we go for a walk like this?" ask Calista. He rubbed Natan's head, played her hair and exposed her forehead.
Nathan opened his eyes. "Maybe, depending on the situation. If possible, I just want to be home."
Vely nodded, understanding it. If their child is born, it is indeed better to stay home and avoid danger as much as possible. "I agree, but, it's very difficult to achieve. If it remains silent, high-level monsters will come and we who are weak are unable to fight it."
Nathan knows it, he understands it. Even though he was desperate to be home and could kill monsters with the Skeleton Squad, there was a limit to how many monsters would attack the Armonia Guild. If monsters continued to be killed, surely the Armonia Guild would run out of monsters and leave only the Dungeon.
Dungeons in the Armonia Guild were no match for increasing strength.
"We'll see later, for now focus on Sichuan Province. Then we can expand the Armonia Guild territory to the rest of China."
The three nodded, although they knew that this was very difficult to achieve, but they were confident that they could do it.
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