Chapter 18 End of Battle (1/2)

Only two hours till reinforcements arrive, I have to hold on till then, ”Clang clang clang…” I am fighting two monsters simultaneously and Ashlyn also holding back another one.

I have been fighting 18-19 hours and it's taking a heavy toll both on my body and mind, the only thing kept me going is the thought of Reinforcement which said to arrive in two hours.

I am scared for my life. I am scared that, a big group of powerful Monsters will swarm in before reinforcement, I have many dreams and most important I haven't seen my younger sibling yet.

”Slic..” I injure monster on its leg but not able to kill it, being at the Specialist stage they are more intelligent than Private stage monster and can use better teamwork.

”Puchi…” ”Fuck yeah!” I shout out as I pierced the head of the monster, effectively killing it.

Seeing their partner dead monsters went to mad and started to attack me in frenzy, It is little hard to counter their frenzied speed as I kept getting injured now and then.

Sparks fly as Monsters nails and my sword collides, countering each other offenses.

”Slice clang” ”damn!” I cursed as I fail to kill that monster, just injuring slightly, that monster would have been dead if not for other monster stopped my attack with its nails.

”You fucker's are really egging me.” I said and attack to match their frenzy, ”shhhh” I sucked a deep breath as red nail rat's nail dug deep into my thigh but there is not time mulling over this as I have Monster's to kill.

The circulating 23rd move of Supreme Combat Exercise, my body's heading ability increased a lot, now whatever injury I receive, it will clot in minutes preventing excessive blood loss.

”Kachac..” ”yeah!” I shouted as I cleanly decapitated the monster, leaving behind only one monster to kill, it would take longer to finish it.

Gripping my sword I start to attack the last monster, I want to quickly kill this bastard to provide help to Ashlyn, she was fighting another Specialist stage monster all by herself.

”Thud..” the monster blasted apart by me and hit the tunnel wall, I followed behind to quickly but that slippery bastard quickly got up and countered my attack with his its nails.

It will not alive for much time, ”Clang slice” ”unh..” I got little startled as Monster cut half by me, I thought the monster will counter my move but it missed and my flaming sword cleanly cut through its middle.

Not wasting any more time, sneakily walk toward Ashlyn who is having a tough time against her opponents, I want to sneak attack on that monster and kill it in a single attack.

I asked Ashlyn to use a big fireball to distract it, she did what I asked her. She summoned the silver fireball of her size and threw it at the monster, ”boom” small boom rang out, as smoke was just clearing, ”Puchi.” I sneakily got behind it and stab it on its a skull, killing it one shot.

'sigh' i sigh looking at my injuries, although they are not fatal but they not harmless if got piled up too quickly they could be life-threatening. I can't do anything about my injuries except quickly remove my clothes from my backpack and tear them to strips to use them as a bandage. I would have asked Jim for his ointment but he used it all, the trick using cloths as a bandage, I learned from him as he was doing that.

I quickly remove the fingernail-size monster core's from its heart, these monster cores are really expensive in markets. They are used in alchemy, magical weapons, and fuel for the various machines.

they can also be eaten by monsters but they had to eat in small quantities, it will take ten days for Ashlyn to finished it completely. The Monster core contains extremely concentrated mana and the nature of mana is very berserk in nature.

if Ashlyn ate it whole Monster core now, she will explode in less than an hour, that's how berserk monster core's nature is.

After counting four Monster cores I've collected now, I got a total seven total. This fortune for me, I even wish it for a second that more Monsters would come so that I can get more monster's core out of them.

”shit! why,” I said as I saw six Specialist stage monster's coming toward me, I just had jokingly wished that more monster would come to so I could collect more core's but now my wish come true, there are six monster's are coming toward me.

”Ashlyn, do you mind handling two monsters,” I said, if Ashlyn would have been surface monster, I also lately would never ask her to do that but she is bird type monster's, as long as she didn't get too close to them she will be fine.

Red Nail Rat's are one of most weaker species who have no long range or projectile attacks, their strength lies in their large number's.