Chapter 651 - Surrounded

After coming up with the plan, Theo, Agata and Ava didn't bother with the investigation anymore. All they did was kill all the monsters they found.

According to Ava, there were at least a hundred Rare Class Monsters in the area, judging from the size of the battlefield alone. 

Her judgment was based on her experience when traveling with Avarice, so Theo trusted her. 

At the same time, he was pretty happy to know there were many strong enemies as he could level up many times. 

Agata was the same. This was a perfect opportunity to try all sorts of techniques she had acquired in the past few months.

While they were fighting those monsters, there was a monster observing them. 

Inside a dark place where light barely illuminated the room, a female with green hair was sitting on top of a green leaf that came out of the stone wall. 

Around her were grasses that were swaying left and right as if they were communicating with her.

After a while, the woman narrowed her eyes. This was already the seventh day from Theo's first arrival on the hill, so the grasses finally felt Theo's presence after coming to the grassland as soon as they finished killing all monsters on the hill. 

"I see. There are three rats sneaking into this garden of mine." The woman narrowed her eyes as anger soon filled her heart. "It turns out there are people who dare to interrupt my fun. Since that's the case, I'm going to kill them." 

Before she rose from her position, she seemed to get other information. "Hmm? They're hiding inside the forest? That's perfect to wear them out before ambushing them."

Meanwhile, Theo and Agata were attacking the tree that spread their roots to attack them. 

Bam.

The trunk snapped and fell to the ground, killing the tree.

"Ava," Theo called Ava, who seemed to have a serious expression. "What's wrong?"

Ava turned to Theo while frowning. She thought for a moment and shook her head. "It must be my imagination."

"Whether it's your imagination or not, we will be the one to decide." Theo stopped her and said, "So, just spill it."

"Well, I thought I heard something moving underground."

"Hmm." Theo looked around while saying, "Okay. We don't know who our enemy is, so we need to be careful."

"Yes. I will continue observing the noise around us."

"We may face some difficulty soon. Don't lower your guard." Theo turned to Agata.

"Understood." Agata nodded with a calm expression while watching their surroundings.

However, Ava soon shouted, "Something is truly moving. It's coming toward us at fast speed."

"!!!" Theo and Agata exchanged looks and expanded their Awareness to the ground. They soon found several presences marching underground. 

"Oi, oi. What kind of creatures can move underground this fast and this far?" Theo made a wry smile as he leaped backward. 

Agata also matched his movement as she formed a shield with her pink smoke.

Suddenly, ten vines burst out of the ground and hit them. 

Agata managed to block them with her shield, Theo stopped them with his spear and Telekinesis, and Ava simply leaped away, taking advantage of her tiny body to dodge these vines. 

"It seems the plan is working. Whoever behind this is finally making their move." Theo smirked.

Ava raised her head and said, "Though, we can't lower our guard yet. There are hundreds of monsters coming our way."

"Hundreds?" Agata opened her mouth in surprise. "We can't really fight hundreds of monsters, you know. Our group limit is forty to fifty monsters without Rare Class Monsters, that is." 

"Yeah. That's the bad news. There seem to be multiple Rare Class Monsters coming toward us." Ava frowned. "I heard several conversations around us."

Theo fell silent while Agata wrapped the vines with her pink smoke to cut them down. 

As if they felt what Agata planned to do, the vines returned to the ground to hide. 

"The vines are this smart?" Agata clicked her tongue, realizing they were in a pinch.

"To think the situation changes this fast…" Ava looked around.

"I will take over the command," Theo stated with a serious expression.

"Got it." Agata nodded.

"Ava. Where is our escape route?"

"The hill." Ava pointed at the hill where she didn't find monsters as many as in other directions. 

"Good. Let's go." Theo nodded and immediately headed straight to the hill to escape.

Ava and Agata followed right behind him and prepared to fight.

Suddenly, a few more vines came out of the ground and tried to stab them, but they still managed to block them and continued heading to the hill. 

While running, Ava shouted, "Look! On your right."

Theo and Agata turned their heads around and found more than a hundred monsters marching toward them.

Ava said they were surrounded earlier, so Agata couldn't help but furrow her eyebrows, knowing they were in deep trouble. She hurriedly looked at Theo's expression to see whether he had a plan or not. 

Little did she know, Theo wasn't thinking about his plan to escape. Instead, his eyes were locked on a small white flower that seemed to be present on every monster.

His eyes even gave information about the flower.

Skill: Mind Flower (B)

Effect: By having the flower's root pierce the nerve of someone's brain, the user can control the target.

Before he could say anything, more and more vines came out of the ground and rose to the sky as if creating a wall to block their path. After that, they moved together to hit Theo and Agata.

Agata hurriedly went between them and raised her pink smoke, coating it with her Awareness. 

The vines ended up hitting the strengthened fog. 

"This is a trap. The monster made us go to the hill because it has fewer monsters. In other words, we're surrounded…" Theo narrowed his eyes and came to a halt, looking at the monsters that were about to attack them.. However, he surprisingly opened his mouth and added, "…or not."