206 chapter 7
The group of six people was still running for their very life, closing behind them was a horde of lickers and some other random mess that tagged along for the joy ride.
"Leonard! DO SOMETHING?! I know you have a plan in case something like this happened?!" Ryuji was literally screaming from the top of his lung for Leonard attention.
"Don't you think I haven't tried something already?!" Leonard shouted back at the trap emperor.
"What do you mean by that?!" the trap retorted.
"They're not dead! Just mutated, I can't control them?! You understand? I can only control DEAD thing, they ain't dead!" Leonard screamed back.
"What the hell are you two talking about?!" Roger couldn't fully comprehend what Leonard and Ryuji were talking about since the stuff they spilled out involved controlling dead stuff- it somewhat riled up his interest- in the worse situation possible.
"Nothing too important! Just don't pay any more attention to what we're saying, you won't understand even if we explain it!" Ryuji shotted back at Roger along with his angry yet cute glare which sent "Chill" down the spine and breaks the soul of a certain group of people.
"Fuck this! Enough of this- Shadow Lance!" Leonard quickly turned around and cast magic which immediately summoned a barrage of shadow spears which launched at the horde of lickers which were constantly swarming at them.
*Puchi *Puchi *Puchi!!
To Leonard surprise and amusement, the spears only do damages to some extent to the horde of lickers- most of the spear only managed to stop one licker from advancing and slowing them down- but not completely killed them.
"This is bullshit! Why are their hide some damn tough!" Leonard cursed once again dashed toward the group of people who were running for their lives.
"What the HELL WAS THAT?!" Roger and his group of ragtag freaked out as they saw Leonard shooting out shadow like rods at the horde of lickers.
"Shit happened okay?! Don't ask further?!- answer me! What the hell is their hide so tough when I can barely see any SKIN on them?! This shit is unscientific! You hear me?!" Leonard complained.
"Ain't nothing is scientific anymore! We usually use high caliber armor piercing bullets for those things! Just be glad at what you just did?! Normally it would take at least twenty to forty shot just to stop ONE of them!" Jeanne finally spoke up.
"And we usually fucking shot them from the mounted turrets on stationed on the WALL too!" she then added into the previous words.
"I'm actually surprised how humanity didn't become extinct yet!" Ryuji commented.
"I know, I'm surprised about that one funny thing too…" Leonard joined in.
"Oh shut up! We usually stay clear away from those things! This is probably one of those rare time where these things were so riled up!" Jeanne answered.
"FUCK?! Are you saying that we're just unlucky?!" Leonard cursed.
"Oh yeah, we are indeed- VERY unlucky! LOOK!" the other male member of Roger team pointed out at them at what's ahead.
"Boys and girls… look like this day next year is our funeral… it's good knowing you, folks…" Roger ran with tears streaming down his eyes as he saw what is ahead of them.
It was a pack of vicious looking Cerberus's with a giant alpha leading the pack, block their way- but there was something strange about this pack of Cerberus's, especially the one leading the pack, the creature was humongous, about the size of a fully grown grizzly with purple pulsing vein running through its entire body, glowing purple eyes.
"Big NUGGET!!!" Ryuji who lay eyes on to the pack of Cerberus's, more specifically- the big alpha of the pack, his eyes suddenly shined brightly and he has returned to his cheerful self.
"We're saved!!" Jeanne joined into the conversation as well- as she too noticed and understood what the trap ancestor was talking about.
"What?" Roger and his team was confused at the two reactions, their thought was 'perhaps they've gone insane from the threat of death?' but they quickly put that thought away as they know who Jeanne was and it is very out of character for her to act that way.
The pack of Cerberus's upon seeing the group of human coming for them- they too charged for the humans' group, baring their bloody fangs at them.
"Ahhh shit! Having your head cracked open and your brain literally LICKED out or being shredded to pieces by a pack of canine… this is some hard decision!" Roger complained as he saw the pack of vicious "man best friend" coming for them.
"Nuggets! You came for us!" Ryuji shouted as he ran toward the mutated animal with arms wide open for a big hug.
The animal still had that vicious "smile" on it face which then slowly split up into tentacles whip-like structure and when Ryuji was closed enough the thing opened its mouth widely and from outside perspective, it looks like Ryuji was about to get eaten by the bear size dog.
"Nooo!" Roger shouted out fiercely- seeing the walking comedy show about to be dog food.
But something unexpected happened.
One of the two large tentacle wrapped around Ryuji and pulled him up and placed on the the giant Cerberus back, the same happened for Jeanne as well before it quickly took off onto the other direction away from the horde of lickers.
"What?" Roger was surprised by the turn of event.
"What are you standing there looking like an idiot FOR?! GET ON one of those dogs if you don't want to be Licker's chows tonight!" Leonard roared as he too jumped onto the back of a mutated Cerberus- likely to be Little Nugget, the same one who tackled the big alpha a while back and command it to follow the big alpha.
Roger group was taken back, however- they too followed Leonard advice and hop onto a mutated Cerberus as they didn't have much of a choice, it's either ride a vicious mutated dog of the apocalypse- or becoming food for the lickers.
"Fantastic, quickly! Go! Pick up speed!" Leonard commanded as he quickly channeled power into the Cerberus that carried the human passenger, giving them extra strength temporarily, boosting their speed.
Leonard also used this chance and pulled out the plasma rifle to do some target practicing on the horde of lickers that was behind.
"Ammo loaded, this is the last clip… look like I have to charge them later," he complained, Leonard wished that he should have spent some more achievement point for extra ammo for this weapon.
"Maybe next time when I visit that place again," he let out a long sigh and quickly took aim.
"For now- I'll just have to make do with what I have." he grinned and unleash a beam of red light at the swarm- this time, the effect was much more prominent as the heat directly pierced through the mutated creature hide and went through it back and burned through a few more unfortunately lickers.
"Aim for the head! See that brain?! Shot THAT part." Ryuji pointed out to Leonard the moment he heard the familiar sound of the high powered weapon.
"Easier said than done!" Leonard clicked his tongue.
suddenly Leonard had a feeling of dread surged up inside of him, which made him promptly moved his head to the side at lightning speed reflex- the moment he moved his head the building that was behind his head exploded and a huge chunk of it was missing, he thought he had just narrowly escaped death, only to felt a slight sting on his cheek with a bit of blood staining it, it was the wound caused by a bullet.
"shit! someone started this mess! it not just Ryuji! everyone be careful! we have sniper!" he roared before turning his attention at the direction of which the bullet came from.
