The first mosquito flew around the corner with a few mosquitos following it. It seemed relatively small group but there was still a full 30 of them. The villagers rose from their hiding places after the mosquitos passed a certain point. Kendrick signaled them and they surrounded the mosquitos and began fighting them.

100 vs. 30 alongside a terrain advantage and surprise attack. The mosquitos were completely devastated before they could even attack once. But that wasn't even a sample of what was to come as evidence of the approaching rumbling. Soon a group of 100 mosquitos turned the corner before the villagers could hide again.

This time the villagers attacked from the sides forcing them to line up closely. The mosquitos towards the front continued forward while the ones in the middle started combat. These mosquitos prefer taking enemies alive so they can continually suck their blood over a long period of time at their leisure. They keep people and creatures like cattle which is why they grew to such great numbers. But this habit was a disadvantage as well.

The mosquitos were killed while the villagers were only hurt by the mosquitos as they purposely missed vitals. The villagers were winning the fight due to this despite them being weaker than the mosquitos overall with equal numbers.

-Minotaur Charge

With the mosquitos lined up perfectly both Emperor and Khan charged straight through the center. They began to slow down when they hit the mosquitos but they kept pushing and pushing. Their putting pressure on the front and center forced mosquitos to be pushed to the sides where the villagers picked them off before they could recover and getting forced out of the swarm. Khan began to push ahead of Emperor while smirking. Emperor increased his speed to match him.

In the middle of this epic battle the two with the names of leaders competed against each other while being on the same side. While Kendrick ironically took the leader-like position in the battle. Stagola was nowhere to be seen and the three kids were taking up support roles by helping the wounded and throwing rocks at the mosquitos.

Soon Emperor and Khan pushed through the entire line of mosquitos. The remaining mosquitos were disorganized and scattered throughout the tunnel. Khan and Emperor started picking off the ones closest to them.

-Crush

Emperor crushed a mosquito that broke a wing from their original charge and it exploded. Khan on the other hand seemed to know martial arts and was beating mosquitos up with ease and ripping them apart.

The villagers taking advantage of the discord surrounded each of the scattered mosquitos and ganged up on them.

'This is so easy, this quest would be a breeze if there wasn't several thousands of mosquitos in this cavern. I gotta remember that this is just a scouting party.'

Soon the remaining mosquitos were mopped up and the loot was collected. Before the next swarm came they managed to organize themselves back into position and hide again. The next wave popped up but unlike the previous swarms it didn't seem to end and the numbers couldn't be determined by sight alone.

This time Emperor and Khan started the attack while the villagers waited for the right opportunity. They dove headfirst into the battle.

-Minotaur Charge

Unfortunately even with their respective charges they weren't able to push fully through the swarm and ended up stuck in the middle of enemy territory. Khan immediately started bashing the nearby mosquitos with his horn and then began punching other mosquitos. Emperor tried copying Khan's style of fighting by punching and swinging his head around too.

Skill gained: Berserk

Passive Skill gained:Close Combat

Fighting style gained: Minotaur Mimicry

'Minotaur Mimicry?! I'm going to rename that later to Emperor's Discipline. Can I even rename skills and styles?'

Emperor became distracted with his own thoughts and the windows while mosquitos surrounded him. They promptly began stabbing him all over but couldn't pierce his armour so they did relatively little damage but it still started to add up and Emperor couldn't do anything about it.

Just then a massive roar was heard throughout the battlefield forcing the mosquitos to flinch. The villagers cheered upon hearing the roar and headed into the battlefield to attack the immobilized bugs.

All skills increased by 1 temporarily due to ally's skill

'Nice assist Khan'

-Berserk

Emperor shouted out the skill then began viciously attacking the mosquitos surrounding him. Due to the close proximity, his skill set, and the roar his attacks were extremely effective.

Critical hit, Skill leveled up, Level up

Emperor crushed the enemies around him and then aimed towards the next set.

-Minotaur Charge

Emperor charged towards a group of mosquitos and easily ran them over. Soon it seemed as though they were winning but then the next wave of mosquitos funneled into the battlefield. Half of the villagers were too injured to fight and the other half were very fatigued. Only Emperor and Khan seemed able to continue fighting. Emperor started laughing not from giving up nor from going insane. No he was laughing because he's never had so much fun before. It was a battlefield yet no-one on their side has died and if he died he would respawn. It was a chance to be in a life and death situation without any of the risks.

Emperor was relishing this fight and started laughing louder and louder until-

Skill gained: Warmonger's bellow

After that window popped up all of the villagers cheered and began fighting again. His laugh made them realize that even if they fell in battle they wouldn't die so there was no reason to hold back. They fiercly began cutting down the mosquitos and committing acts of brutality like stabbing already dead mosquitos and aiming for places like the wings. In other words they began to make the mosquitos suffer when alive and dead. Emperor himself readied himself to start another battle.

Soon a few villagers came into the tunnels carrying heavy loads which they transferred to the other villagers. Before the battle a few villagers were assigned to grab the weapons that were left behind in the camp where they first fought with the mosquitos and lost. They successfully brought the weapons and the villagers quickly armed themselves with proper weapons and armour.

'Quality over quantity, have a few gather up the weapons instead of fighting so we can get them properly fighting rather than using every man possible.'

Emperor once again laughed.

Skill use successful

He then turned towards the approaching swarm.

-Minotaur Charge

Using his trademark skill that was used so often that it got upgraded he once again charged straight into the swarm. The villagers followed closely behind him in a full on sprint. No more surprise attacks, tricks, fights from the side, or overwhelming them with numbers. Just a brutal straight on wedge assault.

Just before they hit the first ranks of the mosquitos the chapter ended

I managed to pump this out right before I had to leave, so you get to read one chapter today. Be sure to comment, it makes me feel good about myself when I get feedback. Also thanks for the raise up to 4 cookies, trying to get the "The" dropped out of the name to make this FF easier to find as promised but no response from the admin so far. For now remember this as the "520" FF, just click on any FF then replace the number at the end of the URL with 520 to get here quickly.

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