Chapter 27: Monsters' Attack 2
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At the front of the altar city's entry gate, Ash, Robin, and Ram are standing and watching the monsters that are advancing to the altar city.
And at this moment, Ash tries to see these monsters' status window from the altar city.
A window pops up in front of Ash.
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Stone Bear (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Quantity: 1
Description: A big, stone bear with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor but prefers to eat soil and rock. It prefers to live alone near mountains, using its big size and body strength to overwhelm prey.
Abilities: Berserk
Fast Reproduction – Mid reproduction capability compared to other monsters.
Gnawing Instinct – Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps.
Aggressive – Fights only when it feels it is powerful against another person.
Weakness: Weak to water and blunt attacks. Easily irritated by loud noises.
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He sees there are many types of monsters coming to attack the altar city. Among them, the stone bear's quantity is 1.
And other monsters' status, he sees in front of his eyes.
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Goblin (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Quantity: 1
Description: A small goblin with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even weak armor. It lives in tribes, likes using its numbers to overwhelm prey.
Abilities: none
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Cowardly but Aggressive – Fights only when cornered or in large groups.
Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises.
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Goblin (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Quantity: 10
Description: A small goblin with oversized fangs capable of eating through rotten food, leather, and even weak armor. It lives in tribes, likes using its numbers to overwhelm prey.
Abilities:
Fast Reproduction – If not culled quickly, their numbers explode.
Cowardly but Aggressive – Fights only when cornered or in large groups.
Weakness: Weak to fire and blunt attacks. Easily scared by loud noises.
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Ostrich (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Quantity: 1
Description: It has tall legs for fast running, but their defense is very low. It attacks its enemy with its legs, its legs' nails, and head. Not a powerful monster in the monster hierarchy but a fast runner in case of danger. In some places, they are used for transportation by taming them.
Abilities: Run fast
Weakness: Fire and sharp attacks and poison.
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Ostrich (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 0
Quantity: 10
Description: It has tall legs for fast running, but their defense is very low. It attacks its enemy with its legs, its legs' nails, and head. Not a powerful monster in the monster hierarchy but a fast runner in case of danger. In some places, they are used for transportation by taming them.
Abilities: Run fast
Weakness: Fire and sharp attacks and poison.
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He is surprised and shocked when he sees the quantity of monsters, but he is also prepared in his mind that the upcoming attack of monsters will be fierce, so he is not fearful of the monsters' quantity. His main confidence comes from Ram and the spike pit trap's expansion, and he believes in his mind that he will survive these monsters' attack.
He thinks in his mind, "If Evan joined this battle, it would really increase our strength and defense capability of altar city at this moment, but Evan's upgrade only happened a few minutes before, so Evan's joining in this battle is impossible. So, I will have to plan carefully on how to kill these 23 monsters with less risk and with less effort."
Ash is seeing monsters coming towards the altar city as quickly as possible, and their eyes are bloody red.
Here, Ash, Ram, and Robin are prepared, their weapons in hand tightly, and Ash observes Ram's eyes are showing a hidden smile, as if he is waiting to fight them to the hell, and Robin is fearful but mostly his face shows a straight face and no one can distinguish that Robin is fearful. Because Ash is the owner of the altar, and from connection with altar he can distinguish his altar subject's feelings slightly.
He is also somewhat fearful of these monsters, so he somewhat sympathizes with Robin.
Few minutes later,
They can see most of the monsters are almost near the Nexus City, and they also take their suitable position with their weapons for killing the monsters according to the plan agreed by him and others.
Two minutes later,
He sees most monsters come near pit traps, and then some monsters are injured from pit traps and some monsters are trapped in the pits with slight injury, but almost all level 1 monsters avoid traps because these monsters are coming back from the level 0 monsters.
He thinks in his mind, "These shameless level 1 monsters, do they not have any shame, and how can they use their brain after being corrupted by monster world's will? Maybe corruption affects their mind and makes these monsters dumb, but level of dumbness depends upon level of the beast."
After, Ash feels he should not have hard feelings to these dumb monsters. After all, he and his team are going to kill them in this battle, and these monsters' numbers are manageable.
Ash sees with clarity in his mind, and he finds that there are 12 monsters that did not fall in the pits that they have to kill quickly. Among them, there are three level 1 monsters. And eleven level 0 monsters are in a pit.
Then he sees Ram quickly attack the level 1 stone bear with his swords, and Robin also joins with Ram and attacks the level 1 goblin sharply with an axe, and in one hand he has a shield to defend against other monsters' attacks.
Ash thinks in his mind that "Both Ram and Robin are dealing with the stone bear and goblin, so I should attack level 1 ostrich."
So, he attacks the ostrich with his knife full might, but other level 0 ostriches also want to gang up against him, but he dodges their attack with slight effort, and in his mind Ash thinks, "Really, these ostriches are very fast."
After 20 minutes of fighting, Ash, Robin, and Ram defend the golden crack with all their effort. Since monsters can't destroy the golden barrier that surrounds the altar city or cross it, these monsters have to go in through the crack. But Ash and others are defending the crack with their full might, so monsters are not able to penetrate the crack with their effort, even after having a numbers advantage. But Ash's hands and legs are numb because of attacking level 1 and dodging the level 0 ostrich attack. Ash can sometimes see towards Robin that he is not better than him in his body condition.
Further, Ash sees Ram almost killed the stone bear, and this stone bear is almost collapsed after Ram's sword attack. After that, Ram moves towards the level 0 ostrich that is attacking Ash from time to time.
And Ash is defending against the level 1 ostrich attack because he thinks in his mind, "That Ram will surely finish those level 0 monsters with some time."
Ash sees in 5 minutes Ram killed all level 0 ostriches and quickly attacked the level 1 ostrich, but the level 1 ostrich dodged Ram's attack. But Ash attacked after Ram, and his attack injured the level 1 ostrich, but this level 1 ostrich can still fight.
So, both Ram and Ash gang up against this monster because Ash and Ram can see Robin is not in immediate danger of his life, so both tactically decide to kill the level 1 ostrich first.
After 3 minutes of fight from Ash and Ram, the level 1 ostrich is almost killed, and this level 1 ostrich's head is out from its neck from the sword of Ram.
Ash takes a breath of relief, but Ash sees Ram start going towards the level 1 goblin, and he sees Robin is defending against the attack of the level 1 goblin and level 0 goblin, and Robin seems to have injured his left hand and his hand is bleeding, but he is defending against the level 1 goblin and attacking the level 0 goblin with his axe.
A few seconds later, Ram attacks the level 1 goblin. That goblin seems tired but not injured slightly, and other level 0 goblins start to attack Ram, but he dodges their attack and he is focusing all his energy on this level 1 goblin. And Robin attacks level 0 goblins.
And Ash also focuses his effort to finish these level 0 goblins because he thinks, "I can kill level 0 easily compared to level 1 goblin, and Ram is also taking action on level 1 goblin, so killing these level 0 goblins is much more beneficial for the fight."
10 minutes later, Ash and Robin almost finish the level 0 goblins, and Ash sees Ram is also fighting this goblin, and the fight is almost tilted towards Ram. But Ash decides to attack the level 1 goblin because they have to kill 11 more monsters that are in the pit, and some are almost out of the pit, so Ash attacks the level 1 goblin.
A few seconds later, Robin also joins with Ash and Ram. Ash and Robin almost surround the level 1 goblin. Then the goblin attacks Ash, and Ash is prepared for the goblin attack, so he defends it with ease. Ram attacks the goblin, and Robin also attacks.
Two minutes later, Ash sees Ram killed the goblin with his sword, and Ash sighs in relief. Robin sits on the soil, Ram is standing with his sword in a heroic posture, Ash sees that from distant.
Ash listens to something Ram said to them, that is "You all have to work on the stamina in your body." He also agrees in his mind with Ram's statement.
And sometimes new ones come out of the pit, but Ram kills them without the need of Ash and Robin's help.
After 10 minutes, almost all the monsters that came to destroy the altar are almost dead, but four level 0 monsters are remaining in the pits.
So, Ash decides to send Robin into the altar city, and he gives his permission for Robin to meditate in the altar because of his injury in his left hand. And after that, both Ram and Ash waited for the remaining monsters to come out from the pit to kill them.
After 10 minutes, Ash and Ram have smiles on their faces, and both have completely killed the monsters.
And Ash is thinking how to use the body of these monsters.
After some thought, Ash decides to take mana cores from these monsters and useful body parts from these bodies.
And he orders Ram to help him in mana core collection from the bodies of these monsters and their useful parts.
A few minutes later,
Ash gets all mana cores from these monsters and useful parts from the bodies of these monsters. After that, they cremated the monsters' bodies in the soil because it will make the soil fertile and they get rid of this bloody smell from around the city with ease.
Ash tries to see the status of the city.
A window pops up in front of his eyes.
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City: Nexus City
Ability: Territory defense doubled
Description: In the event of city defense, all the attack power and defense power of people and buildings become doubled.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (Wood * 1000, Stone * 250, 50 * Mana Core (level 0))
Production: Mist Mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: Very small village
Mana (money): 42
Tax (from market & city): 0 * Mana-mist level
Building: Guide Mark * 1 (active), Market (1 used out to 5 in a day, free trades per day)
Blueprint: Low-grade house (Stone * 100, Wood * 25)
Warehouse: Wood * 0, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana Tree (Produces level 0 mana * 4 per day)
Resource point: Stone Mountain level 1 (310 * mined / 1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (1000/1000)
Description: City's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (9500/10000)
Description: City's defense power level against enemies
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Ash sees the status and thinks in his mind, "If goblins also produced mana cores then I had 20 more mana points, what bad luck!"
Ash sighs!
After, Ash finds in the city status window, the resources that he has not used yet will not show in the status window of the city for the time being.
Ash thinks in his mind, "Altar city is updating its features itself and I find this is good and amazing. Maybe altar city will develop its own intelligence."
Again, Ash and Ram start to go into the Nexus City.
Ash feels an amazing kind of feeling from the city.