Chapter 31.2 Fighting monsters in a mine part 2. (1/2)
“How does it look?”
“Nae guid, laddie”
(Not good, boy)
Dalrak answered Roland while hitting the collapsed passageith a pickaxe that he grabbed fro underground and in caves
“It's gonnae tak' us at leest a day tae clear thes it urto take us at least a day to clear this, or more)
The tunnel that they came from was in shambles Dalrak also mentioned that he was unsure how deep it had collapsed in there, they could very well have to spend days digging theh as the real problem were the ant monsters that could coer cavern
The area they were staying in had about fifty ht There were four tunnels connecting to it and they branched out into more Some were dead ends and some led to places like this one They had two options, either digging thee that they previously took didn’t collapse in any other section The other one was going through the tunnels that connected to another exit
“I don’t like this, they never mentioned that this place suffered from earthquakes”
Roland voiced his opinion while the rest of the party gathered Everyone was on high alert the elf was standing closer to one of the corridors and was listening for any approachingelse?”
Orson asked while kicking a rock that tumbled down the rocky cavern It produced a se open space
“Not sure, could have been one of the other tea the ant ave his opinion Maybe the other teaic to get away Things like spell scrolls were coh and the party with tier 2 adventurers could have had soing? Maybe they just dug under that tunnel?”
The half-gnoirl chimed in, this was also a possibility That didn’t explain the loud sound before the tunnel collapsed though
“Either e need to get out of this shi+t hole”
Orson proclaie sword He was finally able to swing it around in this larger cave
“No use staying here, as the e said, we just need to follow the e, it’s Roland!”
Helci shouted out at Orson who flinched a bit, but he quickly recovered while looking irl’s short outburst but he just nodded at her as a thank you The half gnoesture as she turned her head to the side while blushi+ng slightly
“Whatever”
“The ants aren’t posing a proble forward There is also the possibility of the us from all those tunnels if ait here”
Said Roland while the party continued to discuss the situation Finally, they all agreed that waiting here and digging would probably not be the best option The ants could endlessly continue swar in one spot They could also dig more tunnels and come from below or froround and looked at it along with Selanar and Helci The girl was eager to learn so and she was also interested in the conversation the tere having
“We are here, the collapsed tunnel that we ca akin to red crayon with him as well as a pencil to scribble on the map
“The closest exit should be here…”
He th of the tunnels he could tell that it would probably take soet there
“We could probably take a break here at this junction that connects to more tunnels, it's about the saroup didn’t careThey stood to the side while keeping watch over the to take Helci just scratched her head a bit as she wasn’t really knowledgeable with readingshe wanted to look up when she got back to the city After witnessing these two she was slowly realizing what a good scout should be able to do
There wasn’t er mana stones that the evolved version of the worker ants had A h at least one evolution in their life would always possess a ot The size wasn’t always an indicator of quality as the mana stones could be rated siendary
The ht above Dalrak’s head as he entered the new corridor The whole party ventured forward but now they had to account for attacks from the back This made Orson move to the backline to protect his squishy party members
They journeyed forward, slowly into the unknown They didn’t know if the other parties were okay but the basic worker ants didn’t pose much of a threat to any of the ones came into play
It took about another half an hour for the the advanced variants sprinkled into the mix Dalrak received a couple of acid shots with his shi+eld while Roland cast a defensive barrier around the party with an actual incantation this ti his skill at this point He needed to save the one time use scrolls for later It was unknoone more scroll could turn the tide towards their favor
The biggest downside in this strategy was that his party meh the ants with runic spell scrolls but noas conserving theular incantation based spells that needed time to prepare
“Dalrak, duck to the side!”
“Aye laddie!”
“Mana Blast!”
A large concentrated orb of mana traveled past the dwarf and connected with two acid spitting ants There was a small explosion that caused the two monsters to lose parts of their thorax This left theh for the party’s tank to plunge his halberd onto their heads
Mana Blast was the e could muster up It would be later replaced by the commonly used fire blast spell that packed quite a bita massive explosion If he was able to use that, he could probably have been able to kill those two in one shot
After clearing out about ten of those ant-like monsters they heard Orson’s shouts from behind them
“There are some fuckers behind us!”
Everyone besides Dalrak turned around, the das still keeping the front protected He couldn’t let the party be overrun from both sides Luckily it was only a couple of the normal ones so even Orson was able to take them out with the help of his sidearm He had placed his two-handed sword onto his back for the tiht corridors
“fuck, I’ another mission in a blasted mine or caves!”
“You know that ht?”
Helci quickly replied while sighing
“Shut up!”
While Orson was co on the ant corpses the Sun elf fro peculiar He pulled out a bottle of so its contents onto the dead ants that were behind them The part looked with interest but their silent party member didn’t look like he felt to explain his actions The most interested person was Helci that in turn looked to Roland wondering if he knew so