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Sorry for the delay.
And try to imagine Pepsicus speaking with British accent.
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Third Persons P.O.V:-
Minie noticed the warning sign, Rocky noticed the warning sigh, they both noticed the warning sign and Rocky even screamed out a little for the utter savageness of those damn humans to come and invade their dungeon time after time without giving them time to breathe.
“Hey, I want those pesky humans to come to our home as a guest and never leave again, but I would have liked for them to come atleast give us time to finish constructing the second floor!”
But it looked like… They were too eager to forfeit their lives and they couldn’t hold on any longer and came to the loins den wanted to help the predator with the prey.
“What are you crying out loud for? Isn’t this a good thing? At least you will be able to increase your levels. What don’t look at me like that! No matter what happens I am not going to let them go away.”
“UM… Yeah, good thing you told me about that, but how many are coming this time? I hope it’s a small party and not some exaggerated mumbo jumbo of highly qualified personals!”
Minie opened the screen window to play a direct video of their ongoing situation and when they saw humans coming down from the surface one after another, they chocked.
Minie hatefully looked at Rocky for blurting out nonsense, because his silver tongue had increased the difficult that they were going to face this time to another level and from the looks of it; his words were really coming back to bite, not just him, but them both.
“Haha-haa.” Rocky awkwardly laughed as he had found something intriguing in the band of humans invading their home.
“Minie, don’t they look kind of same?”
“What do you… Oh! Now that you have mentioned it; don’t they look the same like those thieves we cached, beat and mutilated a little while ago?”
“But they didn’t talk about anyone coming after them?”
“No, didn’t they say they were here to clean the cave on someone’s orders?”
“Ah! now that I remember it…”
Their discussion continued, while a black armored pimp with a red sword dangling on his waist skillfully came down from the surface and started questioning his fellow party members.
“Where are them lot? Why have they not arrived here to great us, aye?”
“Great sir Pepsicus, maybe, they are too deep inside the cave to know that we have arrived.”
One of his lackeys came forward to lay his thoughts out, but to his surprise his great sir wasn’t happy from his sudden barging, as he slapped the man and spoke in great fury.
“You dare to speak to me like my equal and give me suggestions!! You imbecile, I’ll cut ya head off, aye!”
And he held the man from his arm, removed his sword from the scabbard and slashed on the man’s face.
“ARRGhh”
The man cried out in pain from being cut on the face as blood sprouted out and he fell. He started rolling on the ground as dirt and dust floated up and simmered in the light coming from the surface. His blood sadly dripped to the floor, as he started rolling on the ground, wailing and crying in pain.
The other humans, a total 24 more of them were shocked seeing their leader behaving like a maniac, and gasped. Some of them started trembling from fear, while some laughed at the man’s bad luck, but no one came forward to help the down man.
Rocky who had already shifted his presence and was now looking at them from above their heads was also shocked seeing a human, moreover, a leader behaving to his fellow humans like a monster and cutting his face for simply answering to his question. He felt bewildered, as hate started taking over his mind, clouding his judgment, but it stopped when Minie interfered with his thoughts.
“Don’t get shocked from just that. These humans are not as united and as you might think of them to be. Moreover, these people you are looking at are the scum of their society, left outs, delinquents, you can name them whatever, but they are mere criminals and nothing more. Nobody even looks towards them, forget about care and love. You have already seen the dark side of humans. Humans who turn their back on their own kind, humans who fight and kill for valueless pride, humans who have fun torturing normal and not so strong beings and this kind.”
“Bu- But… I am shocked, shocked thinking about the amount we will be able to receive from torturing them all and the constant increase supply of dungeon credits which they will give us. Not because of his behavior to his fellows. They could just kill each other in front of me and I wouldn’t flinch a bit.”
Minie felt awkward, her eyebrows twitched, as she confronted him talking without any emotions towards those little pests.
“So, why are your brain waves such a mess, if you are not feeling shocked?”
He mentally shook his head and explained to her.
“You see, even if we capture them we won’t be able to keep them all as a prisoner after all, we don’t have the man power to keep them from revolting and harming us in the process. So I am confused about what to do with them, but if what you said is true, then the being criminals means that they don’t have the guild card which tells about their condition and location, so killing them is just a waste of precious batteries and nothing else.”
She chuckled for a sec at his response and smilingly replied.
“Its simple actually, very simple. All we need to do it to kill them all and then eat their bodies. We could keep the most powerful of them alive but…”
They checked their levels and saw that their looks and their levels, they were both pathetic. Most of them were real lackeys, not only in name and looks, but in their power too.
Most of them had levels lower than hell itself. From Minie’s point of view those humans were just bunch of amateurs who had banded together to play with the weak and nothing more.
From the bunch of them, only five individuals and their leader was someone of a catch, the rest weren’t even enough for them to gain nutrition’s. 10 had level below 30, 5 were between 30 and 4o while four had exact the same level of 45. The rest were much high leveled and stood between 70-75. While their leader was a ranker with rank 1 and level 35. He was the most powerful of the lot, but even then their group was nothing other than a bunch of pathetic losers who had bonded together cause of their greed and maybe their leader’s money or threat.
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Rocky sighed as he looked at their information.
“Sigh… there is no benefit in keeping them alive, is there?”
“No we could keep the leader alive and… just him. The rest are pathetic. We can cash some extra Credits from him if we slowly tortured him, by keeping him in fear and maybe after a healthy dose of daily torture his level 135 body would start giving us 300 credits daily?”
“Sigh… there is nothing else to do. It would have been a lot better if at least some of them were somewhat capable, but it’s okay. Firstly…”
He then commanded his buff ant to kill their slave prisoner whom they had captured in their last skirmish and come to the front lines afterwards. He also brought the four newly bought workers to the front and waited, while the rest of them were left to dig the floor. According to him there was no need to call all of them out. Four of them were enough to handle them all.
“What are you going to do? Do you want them to charge directly into their middle and start hacking them apart?”
Rocky squinted and looked at Minie, as if he was looking at a murderer, a psycho.
“Were you a grave digger in your past life?”
“What?”
“Nothing, as for the plan, this time we are not going to charge madly at them, but test something’s.”
When Minie heard him say test, moreover, say that while laughing like a mad scientist she subconsciously flinched, but a single thought struck her and she started shouting with happiness.
“Illusions, are we testing the illusions!?”
“Yes, won’t it be fun? Let’s see what we can do with them.”
“Okay, let’s do this, yo!”
Their excitement was already on the seventh floor and ready to burst out, but what was excitement to them was nothing more than bad news for the humans, because once again they were going to go through a bashing so bad that they would curse themselves even after their deaths.
The ants came running from the construction site and stood near Minie. She looked at them and nodded, as she started thinking about what to do with them.
“Now where should I send them to?”
Rocky helped her out of her deep contemplation.
“Send them to the first room. Only that room is small enough for me to completely display the full power of my illusion without making them look like some old parlor trick. Looks like lady luck is giving us a hand here.”
He went ahead and left the humans behind to look at their surroundings and having fun gazing at the beautifully glowing Blazing Frost mushrooms, as it was going to be the last thing they would be looking at; totally clueless to what they were going to go through in mere minutes.
Pepsicus looked at his men who were all star gazing and frowned.
“What the fuck yo all looking at, huh? Huddle up and listen ya all fucking maggots. I don’t know where those sons of bitches are, but we ain’t gonna wait for them. We gonna dive in and see what this place holds for us and anybody who finds those bloody rascals, do tell me, I’ll fucking shove my sword in their arse for forgetting to greeting us, ya hear me all?”
“Yes, sir.” They shouted collectively.
The thing is, if they knew that this cave was not some ordinary cave, but a dungeon, then they wouldn’t even have gone near it, but because of their low mental fortitude and knowledge about current affairs, they dived and dived directly to their deaths.
The guild hadn’t yet posted the information regarding there being a newly found dungeon yet, so no one knew about it. Neither did their associates, nor did them. If they had thought of leaving the town a day later, then maybe they could have picked the clues from rapidly advancing humans who would also be moving towards the cave and maybe then they would have decided to not play with fire, but the there was no time to grieve anymore, the ship had sailed and they had already entered the den of the ants and though they didn’t know it, but there was already no turning back now.
Rocky went ahead of the human crowd and quickly used his skill to set up the illusion in that really small first room. Though at first their intentions were not to intentionally kill humans, but they were no idiots to let go a fat sheep with no guardian.
Though Rocky’s illusion skill takes 60mp/ hour, but he knew it was enough. No, not his mana, but the time. He knew that one hour was enough to make those humans bleed and turn those perfect bodied of meat into a healthy, yet fulfilling meal.
He distributed the light balls on the four corners and the skill covered the whole room. The skill started and his ants entered the room.
Firstly, there was the narrow tunnel in which the humans were crawling in and then there was the darkness. Both factors were enough to make it easy for Rocky to move his ants into the room without being detected.
The ants entered and he instigated Fog inside the room. The fog which appeared was so dense that forget about a meter away, even looking at one’s own hand in front of their faces was became very difficult. They waited for some time and then the first human reached the exit of the tunnel.
“Boss there is fog inside the room.”
The voice travelled from the very front to the last where his boss pepsicus was crawling.
“Huh, you fucking maggots its fog not some deadly poison, just crawl through. Do you need me to tell you everything huh, you rascals?”
Though the darkness was profound and deep, but the radiance coming from those mushrooms was still enough to at least light the first room somewhat.
Their party or team originally had 31 members. The party was divided evenly into five groups all under the command of Mr. Pig face Pepsicus. Everyone was afraid of him because unlike them, he was a noble person; an advanced ranker. The five groups all had their own duties to complete; mainly attack, defense, scout, skirmish and thieving. Each group consisted of five members and each such group had a vice captain, mainly one of the higher ranking individuals controlling them.
These groups were created under the influence of real battle force of the empire which was also divided into such groups, but unlike these pathetic losers, every soldier of the empire was at a nightmarish level.
The one group which had first entered the cave and was done in by Buffy was the scout team and right now, the other teams were travelling down the tunnels to hell to get done by the ants too.