Inwardly Jake Cursed “I totally jinxed this by thinking about needing defenses just in case of a monster or raider attack, seems like I'll need to hold off on finishing my living space and upgrading it, I'll also need to call Denise back for now”
He guessed some raider probably had a tracking skill of some sort guiding them to Denise, which meant they would find his base eventually. He felt stress creeping on his mind and his heart beating in his chest, he quickly calmed down, a vicious smile appearing on his face. “If they want a battle, i,ll give them a goddamn battle, those guys are gonna find it a-lot harder to even get to use than they,d ever imagine”
He sent an order to his drones to take Denise back, he,ll need to explain the situation and tell her to prepare for a possible battle. Then he needed to gather all the mana stones he could and start setting up some defenses to defend from the raiders.
No time to waste lets get everything ready and set up.
Turin - Raider leader
Turin and his men had been walking for a few days, still tracking down the girl that had killed so many of his men. Not to mention almost kill him! His blood boiled just thinking about it, luckily the hunter and also tracker of the group told him they were getting closer and closer to the girl and that they would arrive in the next day or so.
He could already imagine himself tearing the girl apart, paying her back for everything she had done to him and his men. A white flash happened at the front of the group, clearly another fucking squirrel had attacked. The little pests and other monsters had been giving them a hard time ever since they had entered the forest. Also had there always been a jungle near here? He could have sworn there had only been normal forests around the region before.
This forest though, was extremely dense, He had even seen some exotic animals that weren’t even supposed to live in this country! Whatever the case, this forest was clearly different from any forest he had encountered until now. Then again ever since the system integration he hadn’t been to any other forest, maybe this was normal know for all he knew.
When another flash hit and one of his men at the front cursed Turin felt a vain pop “YA BASTARDS KEEP GETTING BEATEN BY SOME SQUIRRELS THEN WHAT GOOD ARE YE?” The man in question turned around with a look of fear in his eyes, “Sorry Boss, the fuckin things keep blastin me in me fockin eyes!”
“KEEP A BETTER EYE OUT YE PIECE O KLUNK! ITS JUST A DAMN FLASHY TREE MOUSE! JUST KILL EM DAMN THINGS!”
All his men shouted in confirmation of his orders, and this time they better not fuck around Turin thought. Ive already been annoyed enough as it is, next time i see a flash i,ll set a example. As another flash happened Turins eye twitched, he gathered up his mana and shot a big tremor out, flattening a-lot of the trees in front of him, killing the damn squirrel and two men in the process.
“SEE? YE PUKES, IT AINT SO HARD” His men cheered for him, and thus they continued further towards their goal, occasionally killing a monster or animal that blocked their path.
Almost a day later they started setting up camp in a clearing, when they had found the clearing it had been covered in blood stains and corpses lying around. After some quick clean up through his tremor skill though, it was a good place to set up camp. According to his hunter/tracker, they were getting really close.
In the distance he could see a mountain or what could be a big rock towering above the trees, its rocky walls going almost straight up till the top. It was also the direction they were heading towards.
Turin grinned as he started fantasizing about how he would take his revenge on the girl tomorrow. If it were up to him they’d have kept marching, but he was no total idiot he knew if his men were exhausted it would cost them in the battle. So here they were setting up camp. As the sun slowly started to set and Turin entered his tent to get ready to sleep he looked back towards the big rock one last time.
Tomorrow would be the day, but for some reason he felt a little uneasy. Shaking off the feeling and just passing it off as excitement he went to bed and fell asleep not much later.
Turin woke up a few hours later by a loud bang and people screaming and running outside his tent. Damn men cant go a week without a party, soon enough though he realized something was wrong and quickly stepped outside his tent. His eyes going wide at the scene that played out in front of him.
His men were running around like headless chickens being chased by metal balls or suddenly dropping dead with a hole in their head. Tents were on fire and he saw craters here and there. Now and then an explosion happening all around him. Everything was on fire, the nearby trees, the grass, even some of his men. All the fire lighted up the clearing so he could see whatever this was.
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In the air there were metal balls with arms flying around with guns shooting at his men, other metal balls with arms were throwing around grenades and other explosives.
He felt both confused and angry at the situation in front of him but this was no time to just stand around twiddling his thumbs, he needed to get his men in order and deal with those metal balls killing his men.
“MEN! GET YER ASSES IN FORMATION! GATHER AROUND THE PEOPLE WITH DEFENSIVE SKILLS! WE’RE GONNA BE SCRAPPIN THEM METAL BALLS!”
His men immediately followed his orders and gathered around the ones that had defensive skills. Turin gathered his mana for a big shockwave, he would destroy those goddamn drones and he would definitely get whoever controlled them back for this.
Just as he and his men got ready to launch their attacks though, all the drones suddenly stopped attacking and started flying away. Turin staring, a little dumbfounded about what just happened quickly realized this was never meant to be a drawn-out battle. It had been intended as a quick and unexpected hit on their camp to throw them into chaos and weaken them. It had never been intended to be a battle to the death.
Angry at that he had let this happen to him and his men he told his men to gather up and patch up the wounded. As soon as morning came they would track down that damned girl who he suspected was behind this and make her pay! He grit his teeth, he had never been this angry is his life. This humiliation and undeniable defeat, he had never experienced such a defeat before.
As he looked around, he clearly saw morale had dropped a-lot and he couldn’t blame them, but he would need to get morale up before the fight, otherwise, it might drag him down.
If only that girl hadn’t existed this wouldve never happened, yes it wasn’t his fault it was all that girls fault. How could this be his fault? Nobody could have seen such an ambush coming! He would make the girl pay for doing this to him and his men. With even more determination to his cause he spoke up to his men.
“MEN! WE JUST TOOK A HIT! ARE WE GONNA LET EM BITCHES GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS TO US?!”
“NO!”
“ARE YE ALL WEAK AND READY TO GIVE UP AFTER SUCH A COWARDLY ATTACK?!”
“NO!!”
“THEN GET READY FOR YE FIGHT! WE WILL TAKE EM BACK FOR THIS AND MAKE EM PAY!!”
His men roared, clearly filled with bloodlust and determination, whoever had done this would have hell to pay to him and his men. He wouldn’t let them off easy, no no he would keep them alive and slowly break them day by day. And when he and his men were tired of hurting and breaking whoever had done this, they would just throw them away in front of wild beasts to be devoured alive!
A vicious grin appeared on Turin, his men getting ready for the battle that would take place the next day.
When the sun finally started to come up they set off, back on track to hunting down the bastard girl.
Over the next few hours they made their way through what was basically a jungle towards the big rock, his tracker told him they were getting closer with every step they took towards the big rock. Clearly the girl would be near or at the big rock and she would regret everything she had done to him.
When they finally arrived at the rock though he couldn’t see anything that might point to the girl being here, his tracker assured him they were extremely close though. As they started walking around he heard a weird clicking noise, and when he looked around to see what it had been he saw a hole open in the ground and something rising out.
Out of the ground rose some sort of weird turret. When he finally noticed what it was though, it was already too late, he saw a weird bullet encased in some sort of blue hull fly by, and when he looked back to see what it had hit. He could only watch on as one of his men was staring at him with a huge hole through their chest.
Turin and the man stared at each other wide-eyed for just a moment before the man fell down. The hole in the man's chest spreading a smell of burnt flesh and electricity around.
Then he heard another of his men fall down, in the time he had been shocked about what the fuck was going on two more of his men had died with big holes in their stomachs. The remaining men had gathered around the ones with protective skills and him.
Turin felt a feeling of anger rage through his body and adrenaline filling him up. Turing activated his skill earth wall and in front of him a thick wall of earth appeared, shielding him and his men from that damned turret.
As soon as the wall was set up he ordered one of his men with a fireball skills to get ready to attack the turret. He would open up a hole in the wall for the man to shoot a fireball through towards the turret.
When his subordinate gave him the signal that he was ready he opened up a hole big enough for the fireballs to go through, the man shot out the fireball and Turin waited expectedly to hear the sound of the turret breaking. But it never came, as he made a small hole in the wall in front of him and looked through he immediately saw why.
He couldn’t see the turret anymore, the place had looked just like when they had arrived, as if the turret had never been there. Except this time there was a scorch mark on the rock wall. Clearly the turret or whatever that had been had gone back underground.
Angry the turret escaped he walked out from the wall gathering mana into his shockwave skill, he would send the skill into the ground and destroy that damned turret.
As he took another two steps closer to wherever the turret had been though he heard a clicking sound from under his foot, and when he looked down he saw a red light shining through the earth below, quickly getting brighter beneath his foot.
Immediately he encased himself with his third skill; earth armor and then the explosion hit him. As he got hit he could only think about how much he fucking hated the girl.