Mission: Monster Mayhem

The princess of Draconian race has come and asked for help. A swarm of monsters is attacking their village. It's unknown where they come from or why they are attacking but it is best to beat them as they might come after you next.

Warning! Quest can't be denied. Rejecting will cause the extinction of the race and then further hunting of the tiger man race before your crew is hunted and killed.

Reward: ???

Difficulty: D+

Success: Kill all the monsters.

Failure: all draconian and tiger men die.

Techno PoV

With the ship in the air we set off again towards the draconian village.

The Princess was taken below and put in one of the beds of fur made from hunted animals from the forest.

Though i would have liked to simply let the Tiger men go they begged for us to teach them to fight made use technology.

Like every other race we encouraged they had their own techniques and skills.

They were a warrior race that had excellent fighting techniques but also had harvesting skills. Skinning, tailoring and some basic alchemy were known to them.

The alchemy was for making healing covers and bandages while the other two were self-explanatory.

They wouldn't last if the draconian attacked again so we began to teach them smithing for making parts.

We were going to make them basic dwarf battle suits and leave it at that. If they wanted better, they would take our techniques we teach them and improve.

We were making them develop their own technology.

In the time we had before all this started only about 25 tiger men were able to build complete suits with plates and so on.

The village chief and Greer's father was left alive because he could easily be used as a motivation for make "strays" give up. The tiger people consider everyone a part of the family and not just those born from your mate or your siblings.

Her father was among those who had a completed suit. As he was the strongest of the tiger men he would undoubtedly be the first to get the armor.

Even at basic rank, the armor left the old tiger uncomfortably strong but because they have honor which is beaten into them since young, they won't repay gratitude with treachery.

Of course, if they did the race would vanish from this world because i won't take treachery and trickery towards me lightly.

With my Asura body was Bulk, Nova and her Protector plus 8 of our 20 clockwork robots, Brock and the 25 armored tiger men. We gather at the lowest deck waiting when we are over the village.

The tiger men were armed with several weapons like, war hammers, great swords and metal claw gauntlets. Being close range fighters and having high physical strength made them wield the weapons with the greatest easy.

On the top deck, I was using Yasha as my main body at the moment and we were setting up a large number of guns on the deck. Victor and the two fire elementals were helping lead everyone to set everything up. We were also setting up several mortars that we used before to blow up the mage draconian. This time we would do something similar but the first shots would be special.

The other guns were set up on all sides of the ship. Because flying monsters would be plentiful we would need to cover all sides. Obviously we didn't have enough weapons for every person on the ship but it wasn't a problem. We needed supply men as well as close combat fighters to keep any monsters that land from attacking the rest.

With most of the preparations done and enough helmets given to more than half the tiger so i could relay my orders faster we approach the village.

The place was already on fire from the magic of the draconian.

Techno: "Ready the flash shots!"

Flash Shots are like flares. They are mortar shots which, after being shot into the air, explode making a floating ball of light. They are made by grinding fire elemental cores and mixing with real gunpowder. It can be compared to a small temporary sun made during the night.

The robots set up the flare and after a moment three shots were shot.

Through my scanner i could follow the fast flying shots because of the outline the surrounded them.

As they reached their peak height which was just over the village i detonated them. Being built like bombs and grenades they activated on my signal which made them just as dangerous in the air as it does hitting the ground.

With three rapid explosions that attracted every monster's attention. The moment of delay was for the moment they looked up. It was called a flash shot because on the first use it worked exactly like a flash bangs used by police forces.

As soon as the light balls formed they released an intense white light which blinded everyone that looked up.

All the flying creatures screeched in pain and fell down when all of them moved their claws to block their eyes. I put the ship on its fastest speed and flew low before getting close.

I activated the hatch that slowly opened in the right side of the ship. At once i switched to my Asura body.

Techno: "Let's move out everyone!"

The two front arms released their swords while the middle pair released the miniguns.

I lead the way and jumped down. Below were hundreds of blinded monsters. I grinned and began shooting right blow to hurt the monsters before i brutally drop all my weight on them as i land on my feet right on the monster.

My current body weighs a staggering 600 kilos with all the weapons, ammo and armor. Put that together while putting a good suspension system in my legs and i can turn my drop into a weapon on its own when going into a large scale battle like this.

The monster dies with several of his organs rupturing and his bones being crushed from the weight. I turn around and do a spin with both arm stretched. The minigun was firing out while the sword was slashing through the monsters.

I then quickly jumped away as Bulk and the others landed with an even more terrifying crash which caused the area to tremble.

Followed by him was Nova blasting all the surrounding monsters with her minigun as well as the 8 clockwork robots that were armed with semi-automatic rifles.

The last to arrive were the tiger men who landed stealthily on the ground with easy.

Techno: "Nova you and half of the tigers stay around here. Bulk you and the rest follow me we are heading inside."

Nova: ‘Yay~~~! Kitties let's play~~!’

I saw every one of them have strange expressions at being called kitties. That said, none of them would dare speak up against the girl with the highest fire power in the group.

A part of the group split up and followed the girl who, for some reason, could read where was best to attack.

I lead my group which had the stronger of the tigers into the village.

The doors were already destroyed and inside were many stunned monsters who were starting to get used to the light that were slowly being left behind.

We arrived and i started to blast everything with grenades and miniguns making sure to mind where the draconian were since the quest was to save them.

Bulk was swinging the war hammer we got from Victor back during the Beta to crush the shells of several monsters that possessed them.

I soon found the draconian leader and started to make my way to him.

I needed to cross a small plaza filled with at least 80 monsters to do so. Normally such strong enemies would discourage any attempt but with a hardcore game like this that sticks closer to reality than most other games. Real life weapons are almost cheat like when made correctly.

My two back arms opened up and revealed the grenade launchers inside. They aimed up and i began unloading the 16 grenades i had stored inside. I concentrated most of them to make a path to my target while dropping some of them around the outer area to cause some chaos and to make it easier to get in between them.

In one blow the village’s plaza was lit up like fireworks which sent a monstrously scary shockwave from the 16 exploding grenades exploding all together. I think i have explained it once but when you do consecutive damage to one area the damage for the second attack forth gets stronger. In an explosion like this though it's different. Depending how many explosions actually hit you it will determine how much damage you get.

So in this case it hit all the monsters from below where they are more venerable. The unlucky ones that had the grenades right under them had their legs torn off.

This game is really interesting in that even high level monsters can be crippled and left weaker than a level 30 and the best part about ammo and consumables is that anyone can use them.

The monsters in here are all 100+ and yet technology has proven over and over again. The more tech you have the better your damage.

The monsters were literally thrown away like burn trash and left paralyzed in pain.

Techno: ”Quickly clean the living ones up. We can level faster that way. Bulk passes on these orders to the Draconian. Start charging magic, we will cover them so they can use it.”

Bulk quickly runs off to the draconian and began giving out orders. I helped out to clean the trash remaining and switched to the body in the ship.

Focusing on here i saw the place was swarming with monsters all over.

I pull out all four of my swords and walk out into the top deck. The place was filled with various bats flying all over the place. The 12 clockwork robots were being used by Victor who was using his minigun to shoot down the monsters in the air. The tigers were all battling it out with the bats.

I took one of the poses i thought of in Virtual City. Both bodies i need to think of different ways to use if i will fight with them. This body is lighter and quicker while the other is heavy and slow.

If i could develop dual wield with these bodies the system will begin helping, or is it quad wielding.

Anyway the pose is both a blocking and attacking one where the back arms are in a defensive position while i start attacking with the front one.

The fighting style is to blow with two at all times while attacking with whichever remains.

I start by slashing several bats closest to me that were fighting tigers. The pain from the back stab, which did extra damage, caused it to flinch making a small opening that the tigers took to claw at the bats face and chest.

It ripped a lot of the strong skin from all of them.

Techno: "Victor! Where are those two fire elementals!!"

Victor: 'They flew down below. Have no idea what for!'

He replied without stopping his own assault on the flying monsters.

He was having a hard time because he needed to watch the robots as well.

Suddenly i saw the lights from the fires elementals.

They were flying off ship already and were being accompanied by some draconian. The females i saw stop in midair while the men continued on.

Under all the females a red magic circle appeared and they all began to chant together.

The men followed the two bird shaped elementals.

Blaze: 'ON THREE!! ONE! TWO! THREE!'

On the third count all of them stopped and from all of their mouth a swirling flame was released. It went all above the ship but as the flames joined it gained power until it looked like a great dragon’s breath.

In droves the bats began falling like flies completely cooked inside while the skin was burn.

Victor: 'I know this is the wrong moment but damn that is smelling nice. Those dragon guys cooked the bats just right.'

Though no one showed it because of the situation, we all wanted to laugh at the stupid joke.

When i looked up i noticed that there were many that didn't die though. From the light of the flares i saw they had a blackish red coloration which probably meant they had fire resistance. Those that died were black or with a slight blue coloration so it probably meant they had affinities.

It was then that the females finished.

Over each of them a condensed ball of flame had formed. They grabbed the balls and about half throw them up into the sky while the rest sent them down to the ground.

I warned Nova and the tigers on the ground.

All at once them all burst and created a sea of flames. Those shot into the sky formed several meteors of molten rock that fell onto several of the surviving bats and impacted the ground making large pillars of fire and spreading the fires to all the nearby monsters that were unfortunate enough to be near.

Though it takes much longer than using guns, magic still is a powerful weapon. Sacrifice firing speed for damage. Though considering guns are made to have fast reload and damage per second it just meant we weren't armed well enough to keep up to a squadron of trained magician's.

With a huge number of bats dead the robots could finally turn around and begin blasting those who landed.

In a short while we had the bats on the ship under control. They were a pain but with everyone attacking, the 11 bats that got on the ship were killed.

The confrontation took a huge amount of our ammo to get the bats down. Now with aerial support from the fire breathing draconian and the fire elementals we could focus on the ground.

Techno: ”Victor. Get everyone to bring up more ammo and the bombs. Have them set up the cannons in the lower deck as well.”

At once he began shouting and getting them to move. I walked to the left side of the ship and looked down. I grinned when i heard a lot of gun fire from below.

I looked through Asura and say they were keeping the monsters at bay outside the village.

I started scanning around the ground and soon found her. Nova was using her Protector to jump off the trees over the monsters while shooting at weak points.

I started to chuckle at how good she got at using those suspensions. Before she would need both legs to jump but now the jump of the protector was strong enough that a single leg was enough for it.

If i compared her right now to a ninja from naruto then it should be easier to understand just how good she has gotten with that robot.

While jumping all over the place, she was bombarding the monsters with bullets or, from the looks of it up here, relaying where weaker monsters were.

Victor: ‘Hey captain, the bombs and cannons are just about ready. It’s also getting dark since the flash bombs have moved to far back.’

Techno: ”Fire one flare and then start giving support to the village. Aim just before the wall within the woods and not in the clearing. There are fighters from our side there. The cannons on the side should aim for heavily dense areas of monsters.”

Victor: ‘Got it. Alright you newbies get ready. One more flare and then we start the bombardment.’

Bulk PoV

This is some of the most fun I’ve ever had. I’m using that midget’s war hammer to crack the shell off all the monsters with shells. It’s like cracking open a nut, most people would start getting nauseous from hearing the sound of bones cracking but it’s like music to my ears. The reason is because following all the cracking there was always a ding here or there.

This is so much more fun than when we trashed the orc race since these monsters actually put up a fight. It’s only because of my heavy padding that I’ve only lost 50% of my health.

I’ve never felt so excited. Right now i was just finishing off a rushing armadillo that came rolling at me and i killed it with a single well placed crushing swing of the hammer. It seems that if you break the shell it’s like a death sentence to them. They can’t live without it, it’s like a turtle. Their spine is built right into the shell so you crush the shell you crush the spine.

As i pull the war hammer from the dead carcass of the armadillo my eyes fall on something i wouldn’t have expected finding up here.

On all fours and huffing with rage was a huge rock Rhino. On all fours he is the same length and height as me.

It kept snorting and swinging its head from left to right as if challenging me. It made me grin seeing him like that so i stored my war hammer and activated my switch.

I dropped to all fours and the rhino head that was on my back dropped over my head. As soon as the head fell over my own my vision changed to the rhino head.

A big huff came from me which released a stream of steam. I imitated the rock rhino which seemed to piss it off.

It suddenly rushed me and I in the moment began doing the same.

I opened my status window and looked at my level. It was already at level 50. I had gained 4 levels since the cave dungeons diving. We never put stats points on anything, at least I haven’t. I had all 50 levels of stat points. That equaled 150 points since we gain 3 points every level. My strength and toughness were better than Techno’s at 115 and my strength was equal to his at 88. I changed that because of the stupid thing I was about to do. I put 80 points on toughness and the rest on strength.

As soon as i confirmed the change i saw my durability shoot up and i could feel all the gears in my body work with even more power.

I even felt i was rushing faster. When we both made contact the sound of crushing metal could be heard but the rock rhino was completely stopped by my charge which stopped both of us.

We both began to push but slowly i started to push it back.

I slowly pushed my head down and he did the same to keep me from getting any leverage to flip him.

I grinned inside the rhino head. The reason was because from my back two small openings popped open and from both two miniguns came out. They began to spin. As soon as they reach the max spinning speed i added the bullets.

DARARARARARA

The bullets began to carve into the rhino that reared back from the pain. I took the opportunity and rushed in and shoved my metal rhino horn through its chest and it hits the core inside.

The body started to crumble and i pulled the horn out and moved back before standing up returning to my normal human shape without the horn over my head.

The rhino was barely alive but since its core was cracked now it couldn’t support its body and would soon crumble.

It was a great opportunity to learn how rhinos really fight. I’ve been wondering if there was anything specific I could do as a rhino but now I didn’t have to worry. All I needed to do is run in and ram into anything i felt like. That’s exactly what a rhino is, the huge horn was made for that and mine was made harder just to help me mimic that.

As the rhino nodded towards me his body died.

You have learnt the class skill, Rhino mode: Rush.

Rhino Mode: Rush

While in your rhino mode, you can mimic the rhino’s characteristic rush skill without getting any recoil damage you would have gotten from the impact.

Warning! If you miss your target and hit something too hard to break you could be stunned and will get double the damage you would get without the skill.

I couldn’t help laughing at this. A skill made for a tank class like my own. Not only that i would also get no damage as long as i don’t hit something too hard.

Bulk: ‘He...hehehehehe Let the carnage begin.’

I drop to all fours and start to rush into the crowd of monsters that were getting to close to the village walls.

Greer PoV

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How can this be true! There is no way these guys are normal. How can someone have so much power that a small crew controlling some robots could destroy a monster army like this one.

I was holding on for dear life onto Nova as she sat on the strange robot and made it jump from one tree to the next. It was scary how calm she was. How could she remain so calm in this situation. Shooting monsters telling my tribe to kill another. Was she really younger than me.

Could it be that she is so innocent that she can’t see what’s going on.

(A.N. Parental control censors all blood and gore. All she sees are monsters which have had the ugly lessened and for butchering monsters she is sent away or would see the drops magically appear after Techno does stuff to it.)

This crew is totally weird. I can’t wait until they leave and i can live with my family in safety again.

Annabeth PoV

Where was i? What’s all that noise?

Boom

Bombs, where am I. In a fight with the clockworks?

No wait! I asked for the clockworks to save my family. THATS RIGHT MY FAMILY!

In seconds my eyes shot open and i sat up in a bed only to feel the rocking of the ship and feel the pain of my wounds.

Annabeth: ‘This is...the ship?’

I saw no one but i heard running footsteps outside the room and a lot of shouting. A few minutes later i also heard a heavy cannon shot.

I get up from the bed and slowly walk to the door. I open it and see lots of tiger men running around with metal boxes and metal balls.

I walk out and to the end of the corridor. The tigers don’t even care about me and simply dodge me and go about their work.

I climb the stairs at the end of the corridor. At the top i found a small room with a single door. I open and find several robots shooting down and some small tubes being set up by a few robots and tiger men. At the center of the deck were another demon robot and a dwarf who was shouting out orders. The demon robot wasn’t the same one. It had a slight bluish color and only four arms as well as being human sized instead of giant sized like the other one.

It was also less scary.

Victor: ‘Hey draconian girl, if you’re going to gawk at Techno then at least do it while helping out. Cast some magic or something or stay out of the way!’

I instantly felt my face get red hearing the midget say that. I wanted to beat him to a pulp but from what i was seeing he was instructing the shooters in setting up weapons so i wasn’t going to beat him up, yet.

I get out of the doorway and walk to the side rails before looking out at the battlefield that was being lit up by an unnatural light in the night sky.

My jaw couldn’t help but drop open. The battle was tipping to our side. In the air were draconian firing magic and fire breaths over the monsters splitting their forces and killing them. On the ground were several people corralling the monsters before killing in a large rush. One animal robot that was simply rushing through in a mad rush that left several monsters injured, stunned and at the mercy of those coming from behind. And last were the people up here.

Bombs, guns things we didn’t normally have access to that didn’t care about levels only endurance. They dropped several in one area and it would kill even the hardest monster. The bombs from the metal tubes even did the more damage than the hand bombs dropped down to the ground.

Was this what father was talking about. Masters of war that we can’t compare to. They have weapons that can simply ignore the restriction we had which are levels.

They gain them as well but they care less for them and probably only get more to make more weapons.

I finally understood why father was scared of them. They are the real monsters. Merciless war mongers, the real monsters.

As I looked down I notice a change in the monsters on the ground. They start running away back from where they came.

I felt a strange foreboding feeling.

Thump Thump

I heard a sound from the ground. Everyone was looking towards the center of the forest.

With each “thump” the ground got more swollen. Cracks soon began to appear on the area.

Everyone swallowed hard as the area turned into a large hill. It continued for about a minute until the ground couldn’t support anymore and coved.

What was left was a giant arm sticking from the ground. It remained there for a moment before lowering to the ground and a new one appeared and landed on the opposite side.

It was then that we all paled.

Coming out of the whole was the scariest creature we ever saw. At least 30 meters tall and shaped like a human with smooth rock skin.

“Boss” Black Iron Golem Guardian Menthol Level 450