The girls followed me closely as I weaved through the machines. I was trying to be quiet just in case one of the big monsters were nearby so I had my sword out and I told them to deal with any enemies quietly until we are either discovered or I start shooting. We were in the far back of the factory which was packed with as many machines they could fit here and still be able to move between them. I felt like having all these machines so close together was just inviting an accident to happen. The only enemies we have come across so far have been small groups of zombies and the odd lone zombie. Shuffling by itself or staring off into the distance. Those were the easiest to take care of, Three and Five took them out fast and silently. The small groups we took out together, I beheaded a couple of them before they could make and noise. Five used her daggers and hit several of them in the eyes while Three did the same. One and Two just smashed their heads in with minimal effort. Four didnt even need to do anything as there were no wounded or any need for her magic but she didnt seem to care all that much.

As we pressed on I noticed that the machines were getting farther and farther apart. As they increased in distance they also increased in size, now the towering masses of machinery wouldve blocked out the sun if we werent underground. The machines werent the only things getting bigger though, the farther we walked the larger and stronger the zombies got. We wont be able to keep sneaking around much longer, the enemies are getting too strong to take by suprise and there is too much open space here. We were peeking around the edge of a machine that looked like it was there to process some sort of ore and I saw a hulking zombie with huge muscles. It was currently walking through a mass of zombies, crushing bunches under its massive feet without caring as it walked through them. The zombies didnt even bother to move out of the way, all of them heading in some arbitrary direction. The muscle zombie was completely nude but it had so much muscle that there was nothing to see anyway, like its crotch was swallowed by its guts. Its head was normal sized, so only its body was huge with muscle. It was a very odd look.

I took out my shotgun, there was no getting around this. We had to get past that thing and the zombies surrounding it to get through. I motioned for them to get ready and got myself ready too. I waited until the muscled zombie took another step and then stepped out, looking it directly in the eye. Which seemed to piss it off immensely, it charged at me screaming at the top of its lungs with an oddly high pitched voice and crushing loads of zombies underfoot. Its arms oddly hung limp at its side, swinging with each step he took as he ran at me. I got my gun ready and was about to start shooting when the damn muscle zombie started spinning in front of me, swinging its heavy ass arms like a kid throwing a tantrum. It spun and then lowered its arms slightly, I realized too late what it was doing. The muscle zombie started launching the smaller zombies around it by smacking them really hard with its arms. Throwing zombie after zombie at me with a really alarming amount of accuracy. The girls were behind me so we all had to start dodging the falling corpses. One was just knocking them away with her fists while Two was whacking them with her club really hard, alot of them just exploded into gore while she smiled. But no matter how many zombies she exploded while smiling none of the muck ever got on her teeth, her teeth stayed pearly white. Three had taken out a short sword from somewhere and was slicing off heads before they hit the ground. Four and Five were supporting the rest of us with Four's magic and Five's small pistols. We were handling ourselves pretty well, but the muscled zombie just kept throwing more zombies at us. I brought out my shotgun and dashed towards him shooting the zombies I couldnt dodge.

I got to the large group of weaker zombies around him and fired in short bursts. I considered setting them on fire but then he would just start launching flaming zombies at us, I figured I would blast him until he stops spinning first. I aimed for the big guy and kept dodging the others, but the damage was just limited to his arms because he kept spinning. He didnt even flinch when I was shooting him. I jumped up, using blue mana to launch me higher and fired a couple shots at his head. Using a quick burst from the flamethrower to try and just set him on fire. Which worked, my first couple shots hit his head and left shoulder and the flames just made the damage worse. I landed and since he was off balance and now just smacking zombies irratically I started using the flamethrower on the rest of them. The big guy was spinning so fast that his damaged left shoulder tore and the strain from spinning his heavy limbs so fast ripped his entire arm right off. Now that he stopped spinning I started shooting him again, hitting him in the chest, stomach and legs. He didnt let being on fire and losing a limb stop him though and he started charging me again. Swinging his limp arm like a weapon at me while he was running, I cant take him straight on of course so I ran. Turning around to take a couple shots at him as I ran around. His small zombie army was now pretty crispy with only a few zombies still able to move around and those were being taken care of by the girls. Three was also shooting at the big guy, I could see some arrows sticking out of him when I looked back. Im still not doing enough damage!.

The big guy was still charging after me even though he was bleeding profusely from many wounds and his missing left arm, yet he still was focused on crushing me with his limp arm. Even the fact that he was on fire didnt seem to bother him one bit. Ive got to do something.