Chapter 149 Interlude: Mole King

"Tsk" I clicked my tongue, the mole that stood under me prostrating as he dug out a small hole out of anxiety.

"An undead, hunting my moles" I muttered out loud, remembering the moles that had worked so hard to create this underground kingdom, of the innovations and challenges that came from living underground.

[your-] I swiped the notification away, annoyed. This little notification had been popping up like every now and then over the last few days. That damned undead was hunting me like crazy like we were just meat bags ripe for the taking.

"Hah" I sighed out loud, looking over the hundreds of subjects that had gathered around me.

"Stay here, I'll take care of it" I say to the room, an uproarious amount of chattering popping up.

"But-"

"No" I cut them off, it was my duty as their king to protect them, I had failed, many of them dying. However that wouldn't be for long, the crazy undead that wanted to kill all my subjects would get his reckoning.

With determination in my eyes, I grabbed the gun that had been carried with me for all this time and a dagger made of some of the more valuable metals that we found.

…

A rusty sword that I found lying around was pierced into the giant mole that inhabited this underground area.

Life force flew into me, my tongue licking my lips as the delicious meal was devoured.

BANG

A gunshot rang out, my neck pierced by the bullet. Immediately the wound healed, excess life force flowing into it.

"Tsk" I clicked my tongue while turning my head to look at whoever had shot me.

'that entire meal was worthless now.' I thought to myself, the life force that I had eaten from the mole being used to heal the fatal wound. Even worse was the sickly gray energy that showed my healing, any mildly intelligent person could connect the dots.

BANG

BANG

More shots rang out, though this time I dodged, the rusty sword in my hand lowered so as to point at the ground.

I closed the distance, the human that had dared attack me, backpedaling.

CLANG

CRACK

The rusty sword that I held was cracked, a shield protecting the human that I had tried to slash at.

"Heh… heh… hehehehe" I started to laugh, my voice echoing in the cavern, sickly gray energy flowing out of me as it started to coalesce into projectiles of energy.

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More shots rang out but they didn't reach me, the corrupted life force that I had learned to control blocking the bullets.

"You!" The human yelled at me, the bullets stopping as he pounded his gun at me.

"Yes~" I sing out.

"Why… why have you invaded my territory?" The human asks, his voice strangely authorative.

"Hm… why… why because i need to eat" I answer, my eyes widening, as an actually truthful explanation rang from my mouth.

"What have you done!" I yell at the human bullets of energy flying at him.

"Fall" he commands and the bullets off life force that I had sent after him fell, the energy draining into the surroundings.

I could feel a weight atop me, as if trying to force me to the ground. The energy that I had surrounded myself with resisting his effect.

Looking up I'm sure we had the same thought.

'Whoever runs out of energy first loses'

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BANG BANG BANG

My finger tensed, the bullets flying out in bursts of fire.

"Reload" I mumbled, the gun reloading its ammo as a small part of my energy was taken from me.

It was an ability that I think even the system didn't recognize as a talent. Ever since I had been able to sense that energy, it had been suffocating my vocal chords. Enough that it actually hurt, though when I talked it left my mouth, single word statements being forced into reality.

Though there were big limitations, I couldn't just say die and have them die instantly, no, it would be too convenient. It took up too much energy, sure I could do it eventually but just as how my energy would grow so too would others resistances.

I pushed those thoughts out of my head, focusing my whole attention on the fight in front of me. It seemed the only reason that the undead before me could regenerate was because of that sickly energy that he was emanating.

I grimaced to myself, just the feeling of it felt endless but I knew it wasn't. He could be affected by my commands unlike some of the higher tiered creatures meaning that I could stall him out. Judging by the colossal amount of energy that the undead had consumed when healing it would only be a matter of time before it ran out.

I tensed my trigger finger shots firing out.

"Fall" I yelled out making sure that the energy would fall to the ground allowing my shots to accurately pierce the undeads throat again and again.

I smiled despite the immense exertion that I resulted from those shots.

'It's doable' I thought to myself, preparing for my next set of shots.

…

"Hah" I panted out, my breath heavy against the wall as I shot the last bullet in the clip that I had.

BANG

The undead dodged "shit" I mumbled out, reaching for the dagger at my side.

I was completely out of energy but so too was the undead. That last shot was my last chance at an easy victory, now though, now it would be difficult.

I was not one for close combat hence the gun but the undead undoubtedly was judging by the speed at which it advanced at me.

I ducked down, my dagger reaching out as the undead reached me, piercing its neck.

"Fuck" it whispered out, falling on my shoulder.

"Guh…" I groaned out,'the claw reaching in me twisted into a fist.

"I win" it said, my own energy flowing into it as I slowly died.