The young heroes gathered around Grim Blade after observing for themselves the gory sight of a large city in ruins.Liam paid attention to Grim Blade as he started speaking, "For those of you who have been in a dungeon before, I'm sure you would be able to tell that there is no dungeon here right now."Grim Blade started, he observed their expressions and continued after their different responses, "We won't be going into any dungeon because there is no dungeon in this place, but this place was graded as a 2-star danger zone.""Seven days ago, a dungeon appeared in this city. Not even CGH was aware of its presence until three days ago when the dungeon erupted, sending monsters to wreak havoc in this city. Many citizens lost their lives, and most of them were captured by these monsters. Your job right now is to hunt those monsters and rescue over ten thousand humans in their grasp. Sigh, that's our mission."Silence erupted in the team after his last words."Ten thousand people! Damn!"
It has been three hours already since the expedition began, and they have only covered a tiny portion of the total city looking for the hideout of the monsters.Both teams, be it the team of newbie heroes guided by Grim Blade or the team of experienced heroes led by Franklin and Sasha, have worked very hard in their search.They ensure to keep no spot unsearched; they searched every corner and ventured into buildings that stood amidst the destruction to see if the monsters might be keeping any of their captives in those places.Liam was focused on his search for monsters. He was extra cautious as he moved with the team, keeping his eyes pinned at every location, observing every and any movements while keeping an eye out for the others.Grim Blade was acting lazy as they marched through the place.He brought out a cigarette and smoked all the way.Nevertheless, despite this behavior, he still kept an eye out for everyone, ensuring that none of them walked about on their own.Meanwhile,
'It is almost twelve hours now and we have only been welcomed into every Streets by corpse of humans who lost their life to the monster invasion, we haven't discovered the sight of any monsters and Sasha's group hasn't discovered any as well.' Liam pondered as he stared ahead, observing as the others walked closely behind Grim Blade.Half a day have passed so quickly, most of his teammates are exhausted but Grim Blade gave them no chance to rest, always reminding them of the fact that a lot of lives are somewhere hidden, praying fervently for someone to come rescue them.'I'm not tired but the constant sight of corpse has created a bitter taste in my mouth and a strange feeling in my heart, I can feel the same rage I felt the day my father was taken away from me.' He let out a sigh and picked up the pace.The team made a turn to a different street, it was as though the world heard his thoughts.This time what welcomed them wasn't the sight of corpse or the pungent smell of blood."Mon
Liam and Jason fought the emberclaws, giving it all they had, but both of them were fueled with different purposes to continue the battle and win. Liam had always set his determination on making more money, and Jason, on the other hand, wanted to show Liam and the other heroes who are lowlifes that they will always remain at the bottom of society."Azure armor," he chanted. A large magic circle appeared in his hands; however, he did not form it into magical attacks but instead, it started creeping backward in his hands, forming a flamy armor anywhere it crept past.After one minute, Jason was now in a new form with azure flames forming an armor on his body.Liam caught a glimpse of the armor; of course, the army was cool and all, as a flame magic user, he wished inwardly that he would get one of these spells for himself, but now wasn't the time to think too much about that. He shot his body towards a confused emberclaw.Nevertheless, this emberclaw was more active and more agile than
Jason gave Liam a scornful look, as though he was trying to tell him to go away with his eyes. But Liam stood his ground, unmoving, staring at Jason with a very cold look in his eyes."I killed this particular emberclaw, so take your filthy leg off it; its monster core belongs to me."Liam frowned coldly, "You only landed the last blow; I fought with this emberclaw and even incurred some injuries in the process, yet you did nothing but use your flame to take it down, is that how to behave?""Why do you care about how I behave? It's not filthy lowlifes like you will ever understand the way of life of elites in society. I'm taking this loot for myself, and there is nothing you would do to stop me. So be wise and step off; I won't ask for a second time."Liam would have left this for Jason if he were somebody else, but he has studied Jason for a while and he has noticed that he saw other people who are not rich as animals and people who don't deserve to be protected, which made it diffic
Liam closed the system window and moved forward to join the others, but just when he was close enough to them, something mysterious happened.One of the females in the group was suddenly dragged away by a huge tongue, the tongue sprayed some sticky saliva on the bodies of those nearby while it dragged the female hero with the intention to swallow her.Even Grim Blade wasn't able to react on time to save the girl; this monster was so undetectable even for a strong hero like Grim Blade.Liam quickly reacted after getting sprayed by the saliva, he raised his guard up and quickly turned back to see what had dragged the young lady.Behold, standing in front of them was a monster almost the size of the biggest building still standing around them, and this building is a whopping ten-story building, and this monster was as tall as it.To even look at this monster, all of them had to stare up as though looking at the sky; just the head of this monster was as big as Ethan if not bigger based on
"Fuck, where are you running to, damn cowards? What's the point of obtaining hero cards when all you're going to do is run away at the sight of monsters? It's even more annoying to think that all of you have been to different expeditions before and you possess high rankings. You guys are the ones giving heroes bad reputations," Franklin yelled at the three-plus heroes trying their best to run away at the sight of these monsters.While yelling, he sent a bolt of lightning towards a monster trying to attack a hero who was preoccupied with another monster. The scene was as chaotic as it can get. Their only hope to survive is the arrival of the other team who are most likely on their way here right now. Franklin tried his very best to help other young heroes while keeping an eye out for intervention of other monsters.These monsters were of different types, sizes, and powers. Most were as tall as buildings, and most were as short as humans, and most even used flame magic."Sasha, get up.
Liam observed the area, noticing some heads popping out from the windows, looking at them. 'I guess this is where they kept the human captives. Those emberclaw over there, they are kind of scary-looking, scarier than the others, as though they are monitoring us without even moving.'"All of you replenish your health and refill your mana; we are going to engage soon. I'll take care of the stronger ones, 2-star and higher; you guys take care of the weaker ones and keep an eye out for these ten buildings."Grim Blade pointed at ten huge buildings surrounding them."There are people inside, so do your best not to lead the emberclaws there."All of them nodded in agreement. Right now, they were ready to risk their lives to rescue these people. Heroes were blessed with the power to protect the weak and eradicate monsters from their world. If they showed weakness, then what difference were they from the weak?"I am currently level 5. I need to level up faster and increase my level to level t