The day has finally come. The adventurers are marching on the elves. They set out from the fort and start marching into the forest. They're marching in an eight-person thick line. As they march in, they destroy everything in between them and the mountain. Now, I don't normally do anything to manipulate my dungeon, but I'm pretty mad at the adventurers. I send out a command to the animals and monsters and make them move towards the adventurer army.

After I do this all the creatures within about 10 miles of the adventurers pause what they're doing, then start moving toward the adventurers as fast as they can. The closest ones reach the army within seconds.

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Man, this will be easy. I don't know what actually killed the guild master's son, but I dought it has people. The idiots on the last expedition were probably just not paying attention and got ambushed by some strong beast, and the survivor was just lying to save his own skin. Well, whatever, We're all being paid well for the venture.

Suddenly, I a bunch of beasts jump out at us from the woods. They're pretty easy to kill so the outer guards just dispatch them with quick attacks. More and more monsters start coming out of the woods around us. Fortunately, we at the front are pretty high-level cultivators, so whenever the guys closer to the woods start to get overrun, we just perform a few techniques to push back the beasts again.

Suddenly I hear a roar and a massive beast charges out of the forest. It's like a twisted amalgamation of plant and animal. The monster must be at least class A just from its size and strength. Within a second dozens of strong attacks hit it, but they just splash on its skin. suddenly a massive spear of light pierces the monster straight through. I look over where it came from and I see James Percius, THE James Percius, he's a class SS adventurer famous for purging undead and demons.

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Suddenly, the tree next to me opens up, revealing a toothy maw within, and takes a bight out of the guy next to me. I start releasing fire, making to set the tree, and all the trees I can reach on fire. This reveals a horrifying number of the trees to be monsters, as they start screaming in pain once on fire.

After about fifteen more minutes of fending off the monsters, they stop appearing out of the woods. A message is passed up the line to clear the area around us and to flatten the ground so we can make camp here overnight.

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While the battle was going on, I received a surge of qi.

"What was that?" I ask.

He appears out of nowhere saying, "You got a surge of qi because someone died during the attack."

"But people have died to the monsters before, and I never got any qi. Why now?" I ask.

He answers, "It's because you commanded the monsters to attack them. Please don't ask why that is, I have no idea."

"Oh, ok then... Hey, are you ever going to tell me your name?" I ask him.

"Nope! You'll have to reach the ascendant level of cultivation if you want to find out. He replies.

As suddenly as he appeared, he disappears. I look back at the battle and see its wrapping up. While there weren't really many powerful monsters near them, I was kinda hoping they would be more than one death out of the attack. Well, this should at the very least slow them down a bit. They are moving pretty fast, having made it one-fifth of the way in. I'm starting to get concerned about the elves now though. If they have many more people like the guy who killed my plant behemoth with ease then I can't imagine there's much the elves will be able to do. I guess time will tell.