Chapter 36 - Intelligent monsters.

Can I have your power stones? 

I'll post an extra chapter when we reach 1k powerstones. I know we won't, I just want to see what happens.

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*Change of POV*

A group of young people with at least ten members was walking slowly across the surface of the labyrinth. It was a young group, most of them under 30 years old.

There were five men and five women. Three men and one woman walked in front holding swords, two men and two women walked in the middle carrying spears, and at the back, a woman was holding a bow and another a staff.

It is a solid group.

However, fear could be seen on the faces of all the group members.

"Jame, can you feel anything?" A woman, who was walking ahead next to the man called Jame, asked. They were both wearing old, battered armor.

"I can sense something, but it only seems weak monsters." The man replied.

The woman sighed with relief, and all the group members followed suit.

And to their despair...

Another group was coming towards the human group.

This new group was made up of monsters that had just been revived and had a very low status, so low that a human could easily fight any of them.

However, the group was large, and that could be a problem.

All 20 monsters revived by the giant spider were walking together. They decided to walk together because the monsters knew this was the best thing to do.

At the front were Basilisks; in the middle, there were some centipedes and other monsters; and at the back, there were toads. There were seven toads in total. The group was mostly made up of them.

Monsters that had kept their only relevant ability: Throw poison at their enemies.

And then, the fateful meeting of the two groups took place.

It was a narrow area. The monsters realized that they were at a disadvantage because of the strength of the humans, but they were not afraid and continued to advance.

On the other hand, the group of humans needed more confidence.

"Jame, what are those things?! Should monsters walk together like that?" The woman asked, frightened. But the man couldn't answer. He knew it didn't make sense but had to stay calm.

He was the leader and started giving orders.

"Use magic and arrows. Let's go ahead and attack them. Spear users, give us cover, but be careful!" Some unpleasant accidents had happened in that group before because of the inattention of some members.

The man wanted everyone to concentrate.

But everyone was scared. It was an amateur group that shouldn't be in that place. They had virtually no combat experience, which meant they began to be injured by monsters inferior to them.

The monsters began to advance slowly, throwing the humans backwards and making them even more frightened.

Spits of poison came from the group of monsters and began to hit the humans one after the other.

"Aah, that hurts!"

"Damn, I feel like I'm going to die any second!"

"Arrgh"

The mage, who had already been hit, couldn't concentrate to cast a spell, and the archer couldn't find a good angle.

The humans with swords, who were in front, didn't have much experience, so even those monsters with no speed managed to avoid their attacks.

Something that shouldn't happen was happening.

The humans' HP gradually began to drop because of the poison and physical attacks of the monsters. The wounds caused by the monsters wouldn't stop bleeding.

The monsters also suffered some damage. Some of them had already died, but most of them were still alive.

"Jame, what should we do?" The woman asked. Her legs, arms, and neck were injured, and she had been poisoned. Some members started taking potions to recover, but there weren't enough for everyone.

"I don't know either! These monsters shouldn't be so strong!" The man shouted, frightened.

The remaining monsters stared at them and then advanced.

The man couldn't keep up with the monsters' strange movements. These monsters knew what they were doing. They seemed more intelligent than the monsters they had encountered before.

It was too strange.

And then, the first human died.

One of the spear users, who had continued to be poisoned again and again, fell to the ground, losing the last of his HP. Jame couldn't believe his eyes. Mere weak monsters were killing them.

Noticing the humans' fear and that they could no longer fight at full strength, the monsters on the front line advanced and continued to attack them, mainly in the neck.

Some of them had their carotid arteries cut and bled to death, and others had their eyes pierced. They could no longer see and died soon after.

The monsters knew what they were doing.

Jame saw his entire group begin to be slaughtered by weak monsters, and he didn't know what to do. It showed what a terrible leader he was. The last order he gave was "Run!".

Only four humans, still "healthy," started running after Jame to escape as quickly as possible.

The nine monsters out of the 20 that remained began to eat the bodies of the humans.

After eating some of their bodies and drinking blood, the monsters looked at each other and decided to move on as if nothing had happened.

A large amount of XP was generated.

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