Roar!

  The Elder was asleep in the center of the cocoons when it heard a beast’s roar and woke up.

  It does not fall asleep in order to always remain active. Its open eyes are not sleepy either. It is just slightly opened. It can switch to combat mode whenever it wants to.

  It is noisy beyond the ceiling. The leaders took the Blood Suckers and Blood Devils hunting. The clan are living beings. They will die if they do not eat.

  Boom!

  The ceiling is 100m tall, and dozens of mutants the size of elephants fall down.

  They are the double headed giants living above them. They caught a lot of them, but the noise does not stop.

  Roar!

  A roar comes out beyond the leaders’ force. They must be fighting strong mutants, and it is taking much more time than when they were fighting the double headed giants.

  The Elder knows what the leaders are going after. The blood clan is the upper line in power dynamics, so it didn’t have to worry.

  Boom boom boom!

  Their hunting is was success. Mutants 4 times the size of double headed giants plummet to fall on top of the corpses. They normally would have died, but they survived because the double headed giants that died first acted as cushions.

  Boom boom!

  Double headed kings. They are also top level 6 mutants. The leaders’ bodies are covered in wounds.

  They are unable to hold their bodies up after the impact of falling. No matter how much cushioning the giants provided for them, monsters weighing tons fell 100m to the ground. As their bones broke, their organs were ruptured. They will become better after a few days with mutant resilience, but that is not possible in this situation.

  Bang!

  The Elder slams its tail down on the double headed kings.

  They went rolling because they didn’t have the strength to withstand it. They are strong enough that they could have tied if they had faced off under normal conditions. Victory and defeat were easily determined because they didn’t have the strength to react.

  The leaders were done with hunting and climb back down the wall. They need to end it swiftly. There’s a lot of mutants as strong as the double headed giants above them. That’s why the leaders doesn’t go around by themselves very often and wanders in hundreds.

  It’s usually a bother, but they survive by going around Underpass to find preys.

  Beyond the ceiling is an area of predators that not even the Elder can take on. But, the Blood Lord killed them before going on its expedition. That is how the blood clan came here.

  Grr!

  The Elder looks at the entrance. It can feel that the enemy is close. They have been sending strange insects for the past few days, but it has been killing them every time it sees them. There are Blood Suckers covering the entrance just in case. The enemy will not be able to get through but, if they do, it intends to kill them one by one. It cannot let them come inside.

  ***

  The force took appropriate positions and looked for ways to get through the entrance. They are ready to accept ideas regardless of position.

  The problem is that there is no clear count even after holding meetings for several days.

  It might be possible to get through by setting off bombs. The problem is that if they do that, they will draw the blood clan’s attention.

  Also, the entrance is not very wide. It is packed if 2 or 3 people stand shoulder to shoulder. When they sent the last detector robot a day ago, they saw that Blood Suckers and Blood Devils were filling the entrance. What could this mean?

  “Can’t we go down through the hole?”


  “The hole.”


  Strategist thought about what a force member suggestion. The giant hole in the Public Underground ceiling – it would be the best if they could go down through that. They can create shock from the top or throw bombs. They could take advantage of their position and make a sweep. That is only if they could get down.

  “Leaving Underpass means leaving the mission area. This is level C advancement, but there’s no guarantee that the area above is a lower level than this.”


  Even if it is a lower level than Underpass, they do not know how much they will need to battle until they get near the hole. They would only need to fight once, but this would make them fight more than they need to. A lot of people will think that being the final decision maker is great, but it is good to be an underling at times. They just have to do as they are told.

  [Current location: 952. 266. 85.]

  Whether they are under or above ground, only the depth is different and the location is pretty much the same. If they just follow the locations as a guide, they will be able to arrive.

  “What do you think about just blowing the whole thing up?”


  Nuclear makes a suggestion. They didn’t have anything like white phosphorus, but they brought a lot of powerful bombs like dynamites. They prepared fully because it is an advancement mission.

  “The entrance will collapse if we do that.”


  Underpass is not ideal to use bombs in that blow buildings away, excluding basic ones. If they are misused, they will sweep through everything regardless of enemies and allies.

  “I didn’t know we’d end up in a battle of wits against mutants.”


  “I know, right?”


  In terms of a war, the force is a siege and the blood clan is the residing. Generally to bring on a siege, they need to have 3 times the power of the residing. However, the siege is weaker.

  “Let’s go out. It won’t be bad to see some sunlight.”


  Strategist spoke after thinking for a while. They have made no progress with the entrance in front of them for days. It seems like there will be none in the near future. It would be better to go to the hole rather than dragging out time waiting here.

  ***

  [Level C Mission: Black Devil’s Shadow] [Goal: Attainment]

  [Description: The Black Devil was dealing with the darkness when it was trampled by the ascending king’s power. A lone shadow left behind. A tremendous host is needed for a still weak shadow to develop into a Black Devil. When will an opportunity come? Even today, the shadow hopes to get revenge.]

  [Reward: 1.8 million points. Lucky box.]