Chapter 125: 125. Quick Work (2/2)

Faced by Aine's question the group saw several black rabbit like creatures hop into the perimeter of their campsite with red glowing eyes and long blade like claws and Larut quickly refuted Aine's assumption.

”No, those are mutated ones, they're stronger than the normal Brown Hoppers and common in this area and actually most of the world really. I highly doubt if regular hoppers can survive here.”

As the one with the most information on this area and in general, the group didn't doubt Larut's words at all. Hoppers were tier 1 creatures and definitely wouldn't be able to survive in such a dangerous region.

These ones were also larger than regular hoppers and stringer even if it was by a single tier. They would not be a problem to handle if their was only a single one of them but mutated hoppers rarely moved alone.

How many of them are they?”

I count 20, no 30, there's more coming!”

Damn, where the hell did they come from?

What if they're being chased by something. Wouldn't that be bad?

Should we move the camp?

No we don't have the time. If they're really running from something then we need to chase them back, they're not like the salamanders, they'll run away of they see they can't win, survival instinct and all that.

Let's just destroy them instead, I need something to vent on right now.

”We don't have time for jokes Kylyra come-on! Everyone get ready.”

Fine...

Mr Lix, please let us handle this for now.

I have no problems with that.

Alright here they come, make sure to keep the. away from our ride understand.

Charge!

As he watched the group engage in a brawl with giant rabbits only a few meters away. Tyler felt a little confused on the creature they were fighting. He had seen this so called Hoppers before, as a matter of fact he had sold a few of them to the merchant guild for quite a lucrative amount of money.

However, those were white in colour and where apparently white Hopper that usually only appear in winter so he had expected the mutated hoppers to be a little white as well. Moreover, he had originally thought the creature was generally rare in the continent but apparently only the white ones where and they were generally Brown Hoppers easily found in most places in the demon continent.

The battle was not difficult at all as these were only Basic Tier 2 creatures and the group completely outmatched them in every conceivable way possible. None of them had even held back at all, it was as though they were taking out their earlier frustrations on this poor dumb creatures that had chosen the wrong time to attack them as they slaughtered them with almost every attack.

As wave after wave of these monsters kept charging blindly at them, the group easily cut and shot them down without hesitation. The monsters only had high attack power and really low defence and with their speed and techniques, the Hunters were able to avoid their attacks and kill them easily.

It didn't take long for the monsters to finally realise that they were completely outmatched and outclassed, and immediately most of them began to retreat in the other direction. Before long the fight had come to an end with countless... well not countless but several dead bodies of the monsters scattered on the ground all around them.

Since these were tier 2 monsters, their cores were a little valuable so this had turned out to be a surprising bonus haul for them.

Tyler watched the group gather the bodies and extract the cores with little interest. They soon cleaned up the brief battlefield and began setting up or securing the perimeter once more.

After everything was done, everyone retired back into the carriage with relieved expressions. The temperature in the carriage could be regulated with magic and the space got wider the more people got in which made it quite comfortable.

With the perimeter secured for a second time and the alarm spell reactivated, there was no need for anyone to keep watch but Tyler had still taken the job anyway. He did not need constant sleep and would find it hard to fall asleep with so many people around so he thought it best to stay outside.

Nadine had also insisted on accompanying him even though she needed sleep just as much as everyone else and had even fallen asleep on his shoulders just five minutes into the job. Her slightly twitching wolf ears and her cute sleeping expression made her look like a proper child which made Tyler feel bad for dragging her along with him, well, it wasn't like he had many options.

...Sigh!

He let loose a breath of cold air as he wondered why he was even here to begin with. For some reason he hadn't been able to get a moments rest since he met those two. He probably shouldn't have walked straight into that forest without thinking should he.

Then again, it wasn't like he was completely in his right mind at the time. Well whatever, what's done is done and it's not like he could change it.

Raising his head to stare at the sky, he could see the clouds slowly get thicker as they moved to cover up the sky slowly as the gentle wind blew and snowflakes began falling from the pregnant clouds.

'What a drag...'