Bullets were a luxury.
For the Mundane, using a turret of something would give them an edge against an Adventurer, but that was because of the layered bullets. With a normal gun made out of non-dungeon materials, on someone with defenses as high as Trents, they wouldn’t leave an indentation of where they’d hit.
I was assuming that the weapons in their hands were layered, but that just meant ‘don’t get hit’. I tried to focus on that as I crept behind Gesai. Rix had been gone as soon as I’d got out of the RV, out doing Rix things I supposed.
The road we were on ran almost right beside the treeline. Which gave us the benefit of having a small bank to use as cover. Gesai and I were using that to our advantage as we tried to get behind the Chasers.
Thankfully, we had the distraction of a lifetime. A Tier Six and three Tier Five going at it had gotten the vehicles to back up and the Bandits had all but stopped shooting at the RV, though a few were trying to get to it on foot.
Trent and Hye should have had no trouble with the Bandits, but they had to keep the RV safe, which meant no big spells and playing defense against the three Tier Fours that had joined the fight as well as a few monsters.
I scanned the battlefield and saw Glima standing in the back of one of the Chasers. I shook my head and hoped that Sylph stayed in the RV where she couldn’t see this mess.
“Hey!” I hadn’t been paying attention when Gesai stopped and had walked right past her and into a Bandit standing on the road.
“Who are…!” A knife blossomed in the side of his neck.
Rix materialized in front of me. “If you want to die, I can kill you myself!”
She grabbed the legs of the man standing behind the bar of the Chaser we were close to. He let out a squeal as she yanked him halfway out of the Chaser.
Gesai had her sword out and ran him through, then yanked his body the rest of the way out of the Chaser.
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Rix disappeared as Gesai jumped in the back of the Chaser and rotated the gun to focus on the other Chasers. I slid behind the wheel. With Glima in the one at the far right, we were going to have to move around.
“Hang on!” I turned the engine on and backed up.
Gesia began shooting at the other Chasers. The middle one she cut straight through the front as she began shooting her way to the third one where Glima was standing.
The bald woman dove out of the vehicle as the bullets tore into it. The Bandits that had gotten out of the vehicles and were running at us. I whipped the Chaser around and sped off to the east.
Judging by the cursing going on and the lack of vehicles chasing us, I was willing to guess that we’d disabled the other two. Which only left the four that Whisper had brought.
Gesai slipped in beside me. “We’re out.” She shook her head. "They didn’t have many bullets left.” She looked behind us. "Too bad we don’t have anything else we could shoot at them.”
I stopped the Chaser and jumped up in my seat. "DRIVE!” I jumped in the back and grabbed the gun. I knew this would work, I just had to try to disable them, not kill them, which meant aiming for the legs.
I trained the sight on them as Gesai began to drive. Except it wasn’t a human that was after us. It looked like a purple frog the size of the Chaser. It had a bone-looking crest around its neck and an extra set of eyes just behind the normal one.
“What is that thing?!” I trained the barrel on it. "Electric Shots!”
Electricity shot out of the barrel in a stream and it felt like part of me was going with it. I took my hands off of the gun and wasn’t quite as lightheaded. The monster on the other hand didn’t look fazed at all.
“What is that thing!?!” I repeated as I sat down next to Gesai. "And how are we going to beat it?”
She looked behind us. "By the Gods!” She turned back to me. "It's a Royal Frogian. Rare Tier Three floor boss. A mix of Skeletal Hog, Giant Bullfrog, and Goliath Scorpion!”
I looked at the monster again. I could see the hooves on the back legs and it looked like the bone crest was like ribs that went down the entire length of its purple body, but I didn’t see where the scorpion part was. It didn’t have a tail or pincers.
“What did the scorpion add?”
Before she could answer, I knew what had hit the RV. The Royal Frogian shot out its tongue and the barb at the end rammed into the side of our Chaser. It flipped sideways and we rolled so many times, I lost count. We both had our safety harnesses on, which kept us from being thrown clear, but by the time it stopped we were both pretty banged up.
I looked down at my chest, where Gesai had her palm press against me. Her lips were moving as blue light flowed into me. I patted myself down. She’d been healing me the whole time instead of herself.
Her arm fell as her lips stopped moving.
“GESAI!”