Chapter 436: Wake Up Centipede!

Della walked down the swamp. She didn’t have her usual shoes on, but instead she wore her rubber boots to protect her feet from the mud.

The members of Rose Records followed closely behind. They didn’t dare to drop their guard for even a second.

Cawk! Cawk! Cawk!

At the sky, the crows circled ominously.

"Crows..." Hank pointed his silver bow towards the crow and released his arrow. "Hunter’s Arrow."

The crow tried dodging it, but the arrow moved through the air like a whip and struck the crow right in the chest.

The crow dropped to the ground. It twitched and moved. But then it finally dropped dead.

[Rose Records has killed 1x Mutated Black Crow!]

[Rose Records has earned 1 point!]

"How were you able to tell it was Mutated Crow?" Fang Raon asked as he looked at the rest of the crows. "The others aren’t."

"Those other crows were trying to avoid this crow," Hank said with a smile. "They were afraid of it."

Fang Raon nodded in understanding.

In that moment, Della stopped walking, and she summoned her beautiful light grimoire that was made of pure light.

"Light Eyes," Della’s eyes started shining, and they shone through the fog. "Reveal everything!"

In that moment, the fog cleared up, and there were zombies walking towards them. They had gotten pretty close because the fog was hiding them.

"Blade of Light!" Swords of light flew through the air and shredded through the zombies. "That should do it."

The zombies dropped dead.

[Rose Records has killed 4x Swamp Zombies]

[Rose Records has earned 4 points!]

[Total Points: 5]

"Calm down." Rock put his hand on Della’s shoulder. "We have plenty of Mana Recovery Potions, but it doesn’t mean you should foolishly use your mana. Leave these small fries for others."

"Okay, Grandfather," Della giggled. "I got a little bit too excited."

"Brat," Rock looked at Fang Raon. "You take the lead. It’d be better for Warriors to do the fighting. Rangers need to worry about their arrows, mages their mana, but you got nothing."

"Sure."

Fang Raon took the lead with Machary and Waylen. They slowly made their way down the sticky swamp.

It was thick with forest. So thick that they couldn’t even see the sky. Therefore, they couldn’t see the holographic ranking leaderboard.

Creak! Creak! Creak!

Fang Raon stopped. Everyone stopped, like they were following his head. He heard something creaking.

"What is that?" Fang Raon stabbed his sword through a tree that wasn’t moving. "Maxima!"

Everyone looked at him strangely, but then the tree started screaming. A face appeared on its trunk. It then withered and died.

"A Monster Tree," Della gasped. "How did you find out?"

"I just had a feeling that it was staring at us. It was also creaking, like it was breathing like a human. I just listened to my instincts."

Fang Raon said.

He wasn’t sure whether it really was Monster Tree. He just didn’t want to take a chance. It was better to be careful than ignore potential danger.

In that moment, a fin appeared from the swamp. Whatever had the fin swam past Machary. He jumped in fright.

"A fin!" Machary shouted. "There is something swimming in the swamp!"

It was a sadly fog-shrouded swamp, so they couldn’t see what it was, but the fin was massive, like it belonged to a shark or something.

It was sharper than a shark’s fin. It honestly looked like a saw.

"I saw noth—" Miranda was about to say, but then a massive fish creature jumped from the water and trapped her in its mouth. "Ah!"

The creature dragged her inside the swamp with a splash. They both disappeared under the fog-shrouded water.

"Miranda!" Fang Raon shouted and was about to jump after her, but then Rock stopped him. "But she..."

"Just wait."

Rock crossed his arms.

SPLASH!

The swamp exploded, water flying everywhere. In that moment, Miranda reappeared, and she was wrestling with the massive saw-finned shark.

She put the shark on a chokehold. It was ridiculous. The shark was struggling to get out of the hold!

"Miranda is Battle Maiden," Della said with a smile. "In combat, she is the scariest person that I know."

Miranda pulled her greatsword, and she drove it through the back of the shark, and it stopped moving at last.

[Rose Records has killed 1x Swamp Destroyer Shark!]

[Rose Records has earned 10 points!]

[Total Points: 15]

"Hmph," Miranda stepped out of the swamp, drenched. "I am wet. That’s just great. I should have made it suffer much longer."

Fang Raon looked surprised. He thought for a moment that someone must be wearing her skin, as this wasn’t Miranda he knew.

She, without a doubt, was a very different person when it came to combat.

"I got you," Jax Hugo punched towards Miranda, but didn’t hit her, instead caused a strong wind breeze.

Miranda dried up. She flicked her black hair back with a slight blush. She thanked Jax, and they held hands for a moment before feeling too embarrassed, and they then stepped away from each other.

’They’re a couple?’ Fang Raon didn’t expect that.

...

Leon pulled out his katana from the skull of a skeleton. He was standing in the middle of a skeleton graveyard.

The graveyard had tombstones, just like an ordinary graveyard, and it was shrouded in a thick fog. It was strange that there was a graveyard in the middle of the Monster Backyard.

"Found it!" Shane Scuf shouted, and everyone walked over.

He was standing before a grave that he had just dug. New Dead Redemption had been digging out all the graves.

The grave had no corpse or coffin. Instead, there were wooden stairs that led somewhere underground.

It was what they had been searching for.

"Let’s go."

Leon jumped down the hole. Everyone followed suit. They landed at the ground below, and it was really dark.

R then summoned his grimoire. Since he was mute, he couldn’t use "Activation Words," but there was a way for him to still use his spells.

It took a lot of learning, but he only needed to think that spell inside his mind, and it would activate. It was an extremely high-level technique that only a handful of mages knew how to do.

Distortion had also learned that.

Light burst out of the grimoire, and the darkness was replaced with brightness. The grimoire closed, but still, the darkness did not return.

The darkness was completely replaced, as if R had just rewritten reality.

"My god," Shane Scuf said. "What the hell is that?"

There was a massive face stuck in a rock wall. The face had turned into stone. It looked like a statue of a giant, if the rest of the giant body was buried in the rock.

"Let’s wake it up," Leon said and looked at Seonwoo Kim. "Your turn."

Seonwoo Kim brandished her sword, and she pointed it high into the sky. She let out a loud scream.

"Tank’s Supreme Taunt!"

CRACK!

The rock covering the face started to crack. It was like an egg being broken. In that moment, the face began to move.

"Ssssss..." the face hissed, and the head then pulled back, breaking through the rock, and the whole place started to collapse. "Sssssssss!"

"We need to leave." Collingham said. "Or we are going to be buried alive."

R waved his hand. A magical circle appeared under their feet. They disappeared from the underground and appeared back on the surface.

They were back at the graveyard.

The whole ground started to collapse. They then watched as a massive tail broke through the ground.

"What the hell is that thing?" Shane asked. "It’s definitely not a giant!"

R made an "O" with his fingers, and soon, he was able to see through the ground, as if he had an X-ray vision. It allowed him to see what the thing was.

Then, he looked at Alice and started doing strange hand signals. It also looked like she understood what he was talking about.

"A massive centipede," Alice said. "That’s what R says. It’s apparently as long as a train with fifty cars."

"What the fuck?" Shane blurted out. "So that thing is like over a thousand meters long? What the hell did we just wake up?"

"By killing that thing, we will gain thousands of points. I heard about this centipede. It had been discovered over a year ago.

"I waited for Grinder’s Day to finally kill it."

Leon said, and then looked at everyone. "If you are scared, you can always leave."

It hurt their egos. Leon knew how to annoy them the right way. Shane scoffed, not planning to go anywhere.

He didn’t want to come off as a coward!

At that moment, the Centipede finally broke through the ground. It was biggest thing any of them had ever seen.

It was so big that players all around the Monster Backyard could see it, even through the fog. Nobody wanted to go anywhere close to it.

"Let’s do it." Leon jumped towards the centipede, and he slashed his sword across the centipede’s chest. "Lion’s Slash!"

It made zero damage. The centipede swung one of its many legs and sent Leon flying through the air.

"LEON!"

Seonwoo Kim jumped after him and caught him. She covered him as they crashed into the ground with a boom.