Like a tsunami, numerous creatures, big or small with terrifying appearances appeared from every corner of the cave.
"What the fuck are those!?" Wildcat exclaimed loudly.
"Goblins, Gargoyles, Vultures, insectoids, Enhanced Hazardous Beasts, Grootslangs, Demogorgons, and hundreds of different monsters! There is no way we already encountered these types of monsters and that kind of numbers early!" Vinx shouted.
"OH FUCK WE'RE DEAD!"
Surprised by the unexpected development, the Adventurers at the front immediately stopped running and huddled up together.
With their backs against each other, they each raised their weapons, ready their magic and nervously looked towards their surroundings. Monsters are appeared everywhere they looked.
"What the hell do we do?" Moo asked in a bit of nervousness, having the similar feeling back to Kalren.
"I don't know!" Basically said in a frightened tone.
Despite these creatures being only between F-rank to C-rank, amongst the 2000 Adventurers, most of them were only somewhere at the Intermediate Realm and the strongest among them were at the Rank 5, Draila was one of them. But still not enough to defeat thousands of monsters with some of them strong enough to slaughter thousands.
"We-Were sorround-ded!"
Staring at the numerous monsters blocking their paths, one of the Adventurers couldn't help but say as his voice shook, "S-Something is def-finetly wrong. H-How can there possibly be so many mid-level monsters in the first level!? W-We're all going to die!
He wasn't the only one who thought of it that way, as hundreds of Adventurers at the front shook in fear. Although it was dark, the number of monsters before them counted to at least tens-... no, hundreds of thousands of them. How were they supposed to fight with that many?
"Come on you bunch of pussies! We got thousands of free XPs here! There is no doubt we could kill these motherfuckers!" Wildcat shouted at the Adventurers, taking a random weapon from the Gates, including his guns ready for battle. But before he could move forward, someone passed him without him noticing.
"Move aside you bunch of wimpy primates!"
Indifferently walking ahead of the Adventurers, Draila's figure appeared holding onto a long metal spear with flame engraving at the tip of it.
Without giving a chance for the Adventurers to figure out what was going on, leaning backward, Draila adjusted her position and proceeded to throw the spear in her hand.
Swooosh!
Like a bolt of lightning, the spear traveled through the sea of monsters leaving behind a red trail of flames...
Kacha! Booom!
Soon after, an explosion reverberated across the whole area. The cave shook, and debris and dust flew everywhere.
As the debris cleared up, hundreds of Adventurers couldn't help but be stunned by what they saw.
"W-What?"
"Huh?"
The sea of monsters that was before them was no longer visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin wearing a mage mantle with an orb in its hand.
...well that's how it was supposed to look like.
Currently, its body was lifelessly sitting on the hard ground with a spear imbued on top of its head.
"Is that a Goblin Mage?"
"What?"
"So it was all an illusion? A Goblin Mage was the one behind this?"
"Technically no, it's not just any Goblin mage, creating that mass numbers of illusions of monsters, no doubt it's a Goblin Archmage, and being ranked from D to A from the Guild for sure." Sokushi stated.
'Are you an encyclopedia or something?' This is what some members of the Banana Bus Crew thought.
Regaining their bearing somewhat, everyone stared at the body of the goblin that was currently lifelessly laying on the ground.
They soon understood what had happened. Everything was the works of a Goblin archmage. A more evolved and rarer version of a normal Goblin Mage. With a mass amount of magic power within them, they could cast high-tier magic, even accessing 10th tier magic or even the Super Tier, which are extremely rare. However, it still lacks physical abilities that even an D-rank adventurer could easily kill.
The Goblin Archmage had created a high-tier illusion magic to scare the Adventurers into thinking that they were currently facing a horde of monsters. It was one of their common strategies they used to hunt down their prey.
It was also not that hard to spot if one paid close attention. All they had to do was look for the reflection that the orb the goblin mage made... unless someone is at Rank 5 to be able to see it easily.
As soon as you spotted the orb, you could instantly find where the goblin archmage was and thereafter kill it.
Walking ahead of everyone, with the most gentle smile Draila could muster, looking back at the Adventurers at the front she said, "Next time you're scared, don't block the paths for others. You're honestly a nuisance, so please either get killed or get the fuck out of our way. Thank you very much."
With that, without looking at their annoyed and venomous looks, Draila picked up her spear and dashed deeper into the cave with her party followed by her party members
Standing at the back, looking at Draila and her party's disappearing figure, Vanoss nodded his head repeatedly, "Yup, I definitely like that woman... not romantic by the way."
"Yup... yup... yup." Nogla nodded repeatedly at a fast pace.
"GUYS! We can't let them take all the XPs! Let's go!" Wildcat shouted at the group and urged them to move forward.
"FOLLOW THE WIMPS!" Terroriser pointed in front and shouted in his Arnold voice. And so, they ran like hell.
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Watching Team 6 leave, all of the Adventurers woke up from their daze and immediately followed from behind them.
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"Alright, is everybody here?" Vanoss asked his friends as he was catching his breath.
The rest of his team and Draila's party nodded. After that little incident, Team 6 catches up with them while killing monsters in their way and trying to get away from the other adventurers because they will get in their way. Thanks to the Dungeon's numerous pathways and the monsters they forgot to kill, they manage to distract and lose sight of them.
Now the two different parties found each other, they began to travel and work together, with a little competition of theirs.
"Alright! This time we don't have to seperate. Now..." Then, Wildcat began to speak to the two groups in a Texas accent, which made a few members of Team 6 chuckle and the Caeruleum weird expressions on the accent.
"We now step on a dangerous place known as a dungeon, unlike the dungeon we boys did back in the days to kill a dragon, this one is a big place full of monsters that could shame the Ender Dragon. Better be careful because we... don't know much about this shit whole."
"Jesus, that was a long explanation, it's like a Wikipedia page created by a 7 year old." Basically dwadpanly said.
Listening to Marcel's joke, everyone laughs at it except for the Caeruleum Guardians because they obviously don't know what's a Wikipedia page at all.
"Okay! Enough with that, we should be traveling to this big ass door. We must be careful there could be an army of Wardens or something."
Saying this, everyone all pushes the big two doors as it opens up widely, revealing a long pathway with not a single light source.
"Welp! It's time to get going!" Terroriser yelled out and took a step forward.
"Agreed."
The group is starting to move forward. Five minutes had passed and no monsters were spotted until they stood in a very large spatial area.
Looking around, Moo mumbled, "Hm, weird, where all the monsters wer-..."
Before he could say something, the ground shook as numerous creatures began to come out of the ground, revealing to be some sort of oversized rabbits.
"Oh look guys, did Ohm live here? How many times did he fuck some bitches till he got this such amount of children?" Delirious joked causing Team 6 to burst out of laughter.
"At least they are not Wardens." Nogla calmly said.
"Damn it! Those are Quagoa!" Peter shouted, bringing out his two-edged sword as it started crackling electricity.
"They can be in any level from F to E-rank. These things generally have a high resistance against metal such as iron but will take normal damage against the likes of wood, stones, claws, and fangs. Nevertheless, this makes every one of them a great menace for any enemy that uses forged weapons. But they do have weakness towards lightning based attacks and-"
"Jesus Christ, yo nerd, shut the fuck up!" Wildcat cuts the Dwarf's explanation in annoyance. "Enough with the NPC talk and let's do something with those numbers." he said as he and the rest looked at thousands of these creatures in front of them.
"Oh please, Wildcat. We beat something worse than this. Numbers don't do shit." Vanoss spoke to him with a smugly face.
"Hm... that might be true."
Snap!
With a snap of his fingers, dozens of golden wormholes with magical weapons came out of it. In the next instant, Wildcat launches hundreds of weapons at high speed, killing over hundreds of these killer bunnies.
"Damn! Don't let Wildcat get all the kills!" Delirious shouted
"Yeah, I agree with you." Peter said.
Suddenly, one Quagoa jumps behind him, ready to cut him down with its claws but Peter reacts to it and raises his hand in its direction.
"[Freezing Shade]"
Casting an ice magic, the Quagoa was frozen in a layer of ice, then shattered into a million pieces when Peter simply punched it.
"Don't let your guard down! Quagoa tend to travel in groups!" He warned.
Saying this, 20,000 more Quagoas shows up.
"Heh, a perfect experience farming, lads!" Terroriser shouted in his Irish accent. Smashing between fist and his palm, he summoned forth his OP armor in the next second.
"I'M TAKING THE WIN!"
Launching himself towards the horde, seeing him recklessly going through the waves of Quagoa, Vinx couldn't help opening her eyes widened in shock.
"This guy is insane!"
"Yeah! Which makes me wanna join too!" Draila laughed maniacally and crouched down and ready to move.
"Wait Draila-"
Swoosh!
Before she could see anything to her friend, she was already moving in a blur.
"Damn it!"
Seeing the red headed adventurer also launch herself towards the horde, the Banana Bus Squad and the Caeruleum Guardians immediately join in as well.
"Xavier Number 2!"
"Omega!"
Taking out their pokeballs, Delirious and Moo summon their respectful beast.
The netherite armor Iron Golem and the Warden.
Riding their beast partners on the shoulders, Delirious and Moo pull out their weapons and engage in battle.
Bringing out all of his gear, Basically engage the horde of Quagoa, his objective is to get as many kills as possible without any accidents. He's going to terminator mode to deal with everything.
As for Vanoss... he just stood there, waiting for something.
Now back to the fight, with excitement, Terroriser with his [Armor of Zeldarein] impacting himself down below in the middle of the horde like a hypersonic missile, killing few dozensin an instant.
"Roarrrr!" One of the Quagoas roared as hundreds of them all attacked at once, surrounding Brian as they began slashing him with their claws. However, it seemed Brian didn't sustain any damage.
"NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!"
Before any of them could react, a dark crimson red lance manifested before Terroriser's hand, not even a millisecond had passed, he simply swung the weapon and effortlessly sliced three hundred Quagoas around him in half in an instant.
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Seeing the blood of his enemies, Terroriser grinned inside the helmet as he began to slaughter every Quagoa in his sights.
Meanwhile on Delirious and Moo, using the giant humanoids they rode, they killed more than dozens of Quagoa, shooting, slashing, and bashing these fuckers up.
"OOOORRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAA!"
With his fist making an impact on the ground, a huge explosion went off, killing countless Quagoas.
Sokushi, killing many Quagoas thanks to the help from his Katana and the deadly strings of his, looks at Xavier with a hint of nervousness.
"Note: Never get on the Golem's nerves."
Then the scene changes to Basically who is fully covered in blood, wielding his Revolver and his enchanted Netherite Sword, while The Quogoa is higher rank than Marcel, the effect from [Thought Acceleration] helps him to react and dodges every attack they throw at him.
Now on Moo, he was riding his armored Warden slaughtering the Quagoas like they were just mere insects.
Throwing two more pokeballs, Brock summons two King Kong beasts, the same one he tamed back in Kalren City.
"Bottoms up!"
Like that, the two King Kong beasts began harvesting lives.
Now finally, in Vanoss' point of view, he does absolutely nothing for some reason as he plays around with a handgun in his hand, whistling like he was bored.
*Time Skip, brought to you by Delirious' chibi Teddy bear clinging on Xavier's back while he stood on top of a hill filled with Demon corpses with the Crucible in his hand*
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*BOOM!*
Couldn't escape by these monsters, the last Quagoa was instantly exploded to chunks by Wildcat, standing in the distance while carrying an RPG, even though the metal shrapnels of the rocket didn't pierce the beast's fur and skin due to its high resistance against steel, the kinetic force and the high temperature of the rocket brutally killed the beast to a bloody pulp.
"And there goes the last of them."
In the distance, Draila breathed in with a satisfied face, "Ah! Smell that ladies? The Smell of 50,000 of our enemies' blood in the morning. Not gonna lie, I am very impressed by you guys special abilities you wield, I never expected to be that overpowered. I need to learn more about it!"
Delirious appeared behind her and answered, "Well, it's kinda simple, Wildcat has a skill from one anime that none of us are uninterested with-... wait, hold up a minute, after that little genocide we have, I'm starven to thirst.. Emm... Thirstation..... Thirstation?"
With another Delirious' misspeaking words, everyone lay there eyes on him. His friends let out chuckles.
"You're having a thirstation?" Basically laughed as he was taken back, Terroriser behind him was laughing his ass off alongside the rest.
The other party on the other hand, some of them just look at then weirdly, they also question why their leader chose them to be their ally party
"Hm?"
Spotting something, Vanoss saw a huge crystal in the corner, with the size bigger than a human head.
"What is that?"
Draila, hearing Evan's word looks at where he was pointing at, her eyes widened as she saw the crystal as well.
"Oh, that's a Grant Crystal. And a big one at that, I don't know much about the properties of it but Vinx knows more about them than I do."
Step forward towards the crystal, Vinx examines the crystal as she wears her magical goggles.
"It is a big one, and in fact, these crystals has different magic powers based on their color, this one is navy, and I know which one is-"
"Save the boring lecture, nerd!"
Suddenly, Nogla, coming out of the blue, picked the crystal up and grinned as he inspected it with interest alongside Delirious, Moo, Basically, Wildcat, Brian, and Vanoss.
"Wow, you said it's rare, big, and thick, I think it will be a good pay." David said as he began to shake it... which makes it his big mistake.
"Nogla! Don't shake it! It will-"
Her warning that reaches to Nogla's ears is an instant too late. Fortunately, Marcel, Tyler, and Brian heard the warning, so they immediately reacted and stepped back except for the other members of Team 6.
The glowing stone emitted a blinding light as a large amount of magic energies erupted around Vanoss, Nogla, Delirious, Moo, and Vinx.
"Vinx!" Her teammate shouted.
"Guys!" Wildcat, Basically, and Terroriser shouted at the rest of their friends.
As the light died down, they lost sight of the four, except for Xavier, the Warden, and the two King Kongs that weren't managed to transport with their masters.
Looking back at the Caeruleum Guardians, Wildcat shouted at them in anger.
"WHERE DID OUR FRIENDS GO!?"
Peter was taken back and shouted, "You're blaming us!? It took Vinx too! Your idiotic friend just shakes the Navy Grant crystal which would teleport anybody around it in a random location around the Dungeon. With how big the Dungeon was, it will not be possible to find them easily!"
"Then what are we supposed to do!?"
"We don't know! They might have gotten help by other adventurers or died from dangerous entities lurking in this bloody dungeon!"
"Don't you dare say tha-"
"GUYS! Stop fighting! It will not bring them back!" Basically cuts in their argument. Lookin at Wildcat, he said, "Tyler, you realize they are equipped with a shit ton of Totem of Undying, body enhancement type potions, even Delirious has his undead army hidden in his shadow. Even if they are surrounded by naked zombies, shape-shifting Vampires, Undead Kings, Evil Deku Tree from the Legends of Zelda, or a bunch of arrogant Nobles. I will tell you, they will survive."
Wildcat signed, "Fine."
Noticing the intense atmosphere died down, Draila moved in and spoke out, "Well, that little meeting and fighting is over. We should have faith in them, and hope that they will not die somewhere in this dungeon. If what you said is true, Marcel, then they might survive. I will become a religious person if my prayers come true. So... wanna continue our little competition?"
"...Yeah."