Chapter 299: Strong Monsters

Chapter 299: Strong Monsters

We continued to engage the army of monsters in head-on combat.

I managed to recover most of my mana after a good bit of skirmishing, but it was still a bit shy of full. But of course, there was no way the monsters would know that, let alone work with us to make things more convenient.

“Grrrr!”

“Big ones coming.”

“I guess that must mean the show’s finally on the road. Alright. Let’s kick it up a notch.”

“Okay.”

A group of monsters with numbers in the tens moved through the crowd and began attacking Fran. There was a four meter tall lizard, a huge lion with green fur, and a high ogre with an iron club amongst many others.

It seemed that the mob had finally realized that it wouldn’t be able to defeat Fran with just small fry. She could cleave through hundreds of them without breaking a sweat.

The stronger monsters that approached ranked in the D to E range. Each was capable of crushing an entire village all by their lonesome. Of course, we were far superior. None of the monsters could pose any sort of threat to either Fran or Urushi in a one versus one scenario. But there were far too many of them for us to treat the battle as a leisurely stroll. We had to remain vigilant.

And of course, the weaker monsters hadn’t just up and disappeared now that their superior counterparts had come around. Those that were capable of it were still providing long ranged support.

“Listen up, Urushi! Sink into the shadows and start sniping them one by one. Your goal is to thin them out as much as possible.”

“Woof!”

“And be careful out there. Make sure you don’t get yourself surrounded. I’ll make sure we don’t get hit by projectiles. Fran, you focus on destroying everything nearby.”

“Nn!”

“Yeah. Looks like this’ll be a pain in the ass to handle.”

The monsters around us pulled back as would a receding wave as five monsters of an even higher power level stepped forward. These guys are probably this army’s most powerful monsters.

All five were C ranked threats; each was strong enough to fell Greengoat on its own. The fact that there were five of them gathered meant that the country as a whole would have met an unprecedented amount of trouble had we not discovered them.

They would have had to fight a war on two fronts. The Basharians would have been attacking from one side, while this army attacked from another. And it all just happened to occur while the Beast Lord was away. Does that mean that this monster army is something the Basharians put together? Man, I just don’t know. But alright, enough thinking. I need to focus.

The biggest problem was that each of the five C ranked monsters was of a different type. The largest was a multi headed snake known as a Graphite Hydra. Its scales shone with a black lustre, as could be guessed from its name. Each of its six heads were wide enough to swallow Fran whole, and all in all, the oversized snake was at least twenty meters long. It had the ability to rapidly regenerate, but that wasn’t all. It was capable of spitting breaths of fire, poison, and darkness.

Beside it stood a Crimson Wolf, a canine with deep red fur capable of casting flame magic. It seemed like it was more or less the same species as Urushi, except that its primary element was fire as opposed to darkness. Its stats were the most well rounded of the five.

Like the second, the third monster was also a type of beast. Namely, a Steel Titan Bear. The ten meter tall mammal had skin as hard as steel covering its entire body. It didn’t really have any special skills, but its stats, especially its defenses, were incredible. Its strength sat at a whole 1286, meaning it could output even more brute force than the Graphite Hydra.

Next to the bear was a giant bug known as an Adamantite Beetle. It basically looked like an eight meter long hercules beetle. Its exoskeleton was absurdly hard, and it even had level 8 magic resistance. Its High Speed Flight skill made it look like it would be extremely difficult to deal with.

The last monster was a humanoid with jet black skin, a demon. Its species labeled it a Demonic Baron, meaning it was weaker than the Demonic Earl we’d fought back when we first started adventuring. Its stats weren’t as good, but it had skills that seemed to cover all its weaknesses. It looked like it would be harder to deal with than the Demonic Earl we’d fought back then, but only because it didn’t need to protect an idiotic dungeon master.

Even just a single one of the five monsters that stood before us was enough to pose a threat on its own. And to make matters worse, the army had once again started to move. It looked like it was planning to advance while Fran struggled with its elites.

Fortunately, I had managed to glean a bit of information. Demons were a type of monster that could almost never exist outside of a dungeon unless very special techniques were employed. In other words, the monsters were likely the product of some sort of labyrinth.

“This is looking bad.”

“What now?”

“Let’s see... We’re not going to be able to keep the army in check if we’re going to have to take these guys on, so...”

It was just far too dangerous. We wouldn’t have a fighting chance unless we went all out and focused all our resources on the opponents we had before us.

“Then will just win quickly.”

“Yeah, seems like our only choice. Welp. Let’s do this!”